{"id":422,"date":"2011-03-08T10:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T15:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/studying-abroad\/?p=422"},"modified":"2011-03-08T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T15:57:42","slug":"reese-12-life-is-good-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2011\/03\/08\/reese-12-life-is-good-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Reese ’12: Life is Good in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joe on the Menai Suspension Bridge, down the straight is the Irish Sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joe Reese ’12<\/p>\n

– In early January I left Indianapolis on my journey to London.\u00a0 I arrived in London and made my way to the Thistle City Barbican Hotel.\u00a0 First I met my roommate. \u00a0He was from Dennison. \u00a0Then my orientation program with Arcadia\u00a0began.\u00a0 There were five students from The States, including me, that would be studying with Arcadia in Bangor, Wales.\u00a0 We spent the next week touring London and learning about what was to come.\u00a0 After London the five of us traveled to Chester, England where we stayed with host families and toured the small historic town.\u00a0 We then spent a day touring Liverpool before making our way to Bangor, Wales.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Bangor has been great.\u00a0 I am taking three film classes, two are comparable to Wabash Art credits, and the other is comparable to a theater credit.\u00a0 I have joined the rowing team, the canoeing club, the mountain walking club, and the Christian\u2019s union.\u00a0 Through Arcadia I have managed to take guided trips to Scotland and York.\u00a0 I will be taking another trip to Scotland soon with the Arcadia book club to have lunch with an author and visit places in the novel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

My recent trip to York was great.\u00a0 I was able to stay an extra day from the Arcadia trip, which allowed me to meet-up with my Kappa Sigma brother, Donovan Bisbee.\u00a0 He hosted me for the night and then took me on a tour of York, complete with a tour of the York Brewery.\u00a0 It is the only brewery operating within the city walls.\u00a0 I enjoy seeing other Americans on the different trips that I take, as well as at Bangor University.\u00a0 For many of my fellow abroad students, this is their first time out of the U.S.\u00a0 This is only my second time, and this duration is much longer than the last.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Reese, in blue sweatshirt center-left, with members of the walking club atop a bountain overlooking Bangor, Wales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Bangor University, we have 29, spring semester, Americans.\u00a0 Five in my program: two from Dennison, one from, Arcadia, one from Hamilton, and myself; one from a University in Maine; and 23 from Central College in Iowa.\u00a0 Unlike the Arcadia program that I am with, the Iowa students all go to Central College.\u00a0 Also, Bangor is not the only abroad University that Central College sends students.\u00a0 This prompted me to look at the college\u2019s website.\u00a0 There I found that Central College is a private, liberal arts college, like Wabash.\u00a0 I also noticed that Central boasts about sending fifty percent of its students on the college\u2019s study abroad programs.\u00a0 I wish Wabash could send that many students abroad.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are plenty of good Wabash men that are turned away from studying abroad every year, due to lack of funding. \u00a0\u00a0I am glad to see Wabash professors offering more immersion trip classes, to help with this problem, but while this is great, it is not nearly the same.\u00a0 Alumni, please continue to contribute what you can, and keep praying for more funding.\u00a0 More of us deserve the wonderful opportunity that I have been given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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