{"id":3869,"date":"2015-08-28T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2015-09-18T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:21:53","slug":"tales-from-abroad-summer-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/tales-from-abroad-summer-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales From Abroad: Summer 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3871 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled-240x319.png\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"350\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled-240x319.png 240w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled-500x665.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled.png 582w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">I studied Social Psychology and The Psychology of Ideology abroad this summer in Leipzig,\u00a0<\/span>Germany for a month. Using the money from the Honors travel grant, I also visited Barcelona (Spain),\u00a0Brussels (Belgium), and Amsterdam (The Netherlands) during the free travel week. The month went by\u00a0incredibly quickly, and I was back home before I knew it. I expected it to feel much longer, and while I\u00a0was excited to get back home and see my family, I was not quite ready to leave Leipzig. I did not expect\u00a0to love the city so much, and I really miss being there with all of the people I got to know. However, I am\u00a0planning on going back one day, maybe to live for a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3872 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled1-240x180.png\" alt=\"Untitled1\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled1-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled1-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled1.png 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides loving Leipzig, I loved being in the middle of the history that we were learning about in\u00a0class. Being able to connect concepts from Social Psychology and the Psychology of Ideology to the\u00a0different things from World War II and the Cold War era made it so much more real, and not just\u00a0conceptual. It made for a kind of hands-on learning experience that was really enjoyable and at the\u00a0same time very effective. And while I had learned about World War II and the Cold War in history classes\u00a0before, being able to visit the sites and monuments dedicated to remembering those times made it so\u00a0much more real. It was not just some far-off place that you saw only in history textbooks; it was real,\u00a0and people really suffered and died or were forced to live under an oppressive government in these\u00a0places. At times that realization was almost overwhelming, but I am so glad that I had the opportunity to\u00a0experience it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-3873 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled2-240x180.png\" alt=\"Untitled2\" width=\"404\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled2-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled2-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/honorscollege\/files\/2015\/08\/Untitled2.png 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Something that bothered me throughout the trip was that a lot of times, especially in school,\u00a0whenever I heard about Germany it was related to one of the World Wars or to the Berlin Wall, so I did\u00a0not know much about the history before or after all of that. I think it is really unfair that so much of\u00a0what many people learn about Germany is about that particular period of time in its history, because\u00a0there is so much good that happened before and after. Of course it is important to remember what\u00a0happened, not only to pay respect to all those that were affected, but to learn from the past and\u00a0improve for the future. But a country is much more than its mistakes.\u00a0Overall, the study abroad experience was incredible. There were a few stressful or\u00a0overwhelming moments, but I learned so much. Not only in class, but from the experiences of the\u00a0month I learned about myself, about the world, and a little bit about how I fit into this amazing world\u00a0that God has given us to explore. The trip was something that I will cherish forever, and I am so glad that\u00a0I had the amazing opportunity to travel abroad with ACU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I studied Social Psychology and The Psychology of Ideology abroad this summer in Leipzig,\u00a0Germany for a month. Using the money from the Honors travel grant, I also visited Barcelona (Spain),\u00a0Brussels (Belgium), and Amsterdam (The Netherlands) during the free travel week. The month went by\u00a0incredibly quickly, and I was back home before I knew it. 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