She sits, minimal movement, hunched over, a cord creating a trail leading up to where her gaze is lifted toward the television. This picture may seem unremarkable, and it became so when I lived with Sara Suganuma. But watching her now that I am not so privileged as to share quarters with her, I recognize the familiar identity of this Nebraska Wesleyan University student.
I recall over a month and a half ago when I was “completely ready” to go to a foreign country to study abroad. Laughably, I was sorely mistaken. When I first arrived in Granada Spain, I could not have been more of a guiri (foreigner). I stuck out like a 6’5 red-haired man in Japan.
It’s hard for me to believe I have been on a different continent for nearly a month and a half. To say I was ready to travel, had any idea of what to expect or really knew what I was doing would be a series of complete falsehoods. I had hardly traveled around American cities on my own, so this directionally challenged individual was terrified half to death at the thought of navigating various international airports and learning public transportation systems.
It soon becomes evident that many cultural values of the United States differ from those of Sweden. When I logged onto the computers in the library of my new university in Sweden for the first time, I was taken aback by the agreement I was required to accept.
During admissions, colleges and universities tout their connections, and the benefits those contacts reap for enrolled students. For two Nebraska Wesleyan University students, an internship offered exclusively at NWU provided exactly that. Award-winning author Brenda Bence selected Senior Kelsey Steinmeyer and Junior Maggie Stanton for an opportunity that would provide them not only with valuable work experience, but would take them more than 8,500 miles from Lincoln.
How many times have ordinary citizens complained that they have no say on the affairs of the government? Or that Washington seems so aloof and elitist that the common man has no chance of acceptance or understanding among the ivory pillars and storied history of the nation’s capital and the esoteric traditions that permeate its government? That idea no longer holds true for NWU students, who, for eight years, have had the chance to go to Washington D.
Elizabeth Ogg: What are some of the service trips that you have been on with Global Service Learning? Meera Bhardwaj: I’ve done a lot of local service and I went to Malawi. [When we serve people] we try not to impose our own ideals. The community tells us what they need us to do for them.
Lesley Dudden, a junior at Nebraska Wesleyan University, is spending her fall semester in a place where few Americans study abroad: Turkey. Dudden applied and was accepted into the Critical Language Scholarship Program, a scholarship funded by the United States Department of State for undergraduates to study rarely-taught, but important foreign languages.
We think international sabbatical is like a study abroad experience for professors. Just like student study abroad, the international sabbatical gives professors an opportunity to see new things, see old things in a new light, meet new people and explore new opportunities, all with the goal of returning to campus with fresh ideas and renewed energy that will benefit the entire university community.
Brianna's Tale
In a strange turn of events, four Nebraska Wesleyan University students traveling abroad this fall semester all landed in the same city-- Montevideo, Uruguay. Now, Nate Leonard, Zac Woodward, Kelly Gowen and Brianna Christoffersen all share some of the experiences
they’ve encountered while trying to acclimate themselves to a new culture.
Nate's Experience
In a strange turn of events, four Nebraska Wesleyan University students traveling abroad this fall semester all landed in the same city-- Montevideo, Uruguay. Now, Nate Leonard, Zac Woodward, Kelly Gowen and Brianna Christoffersen all share some of the experiences
they’ve encountered while trying to acclimate themselves to a new culture.
Zac's Story
In a strange turn of events, four Nebraska Wesleyan University students traveling abroad this fall semester all landed in the same city-- Montevideo, Uruguay. Now, Nate Leonard, Zac Woodward, Kelly Gowen and Brianna Christoffersen all share some of the experiences
they’ve encountered while trying to acclimate themselves to a new culture.
Kelly's Time Abroad
I have less than two months left and I am more afraid than when my plane landed in Uruguay. I feel I am running out of time. I came to Uruguay with the expectation that I would leave speaking Spanish fluently. I spent my first two months here afraid of the looks and snickers I would receive when I spoke with my notable and apparently very “Nebraskan,” accent.
“Didn’t you graduate?” Lauren Williams did indeed graduate from Nebraska Wesleyan University in May 2009, with a Bachelor’s degree in Music and a minor in Journalism. Yet those who have seen her on campus this fall are not delusional – Williams has traded in her role as a student for one as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America coordinator) and can be found working in Service Learning at NWU.
Two recent additions to the English department were made this year in the forms of Dr. Brad Tice and Mr. Ben Gotschall. While Tice’s area of focus is creative writing, Gotchall’s emphasis is poetry. For Dr. Tice, this is his first encounter with Nebraska Wesleyan University, but Gotschall is already well acquainted with the university, having graduated from NWU in 2003.
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