by compactscholars | May 30, 2019 | Compact Abroad
By Silvia Saldivar Clap snap, clap clap snap, snap clap, snap clap clap, ssshhh. Echos flew through the room as smiles started to appear. My brain, overwhelmed with emotions, was rambling around scurrying trying to grasp what a young seven year old Bulgarian girl was...
by compactscholars | May 30, 2019 | Compact Abroad
By Vanessa Castellon In the class meetings before arriving to Greece, some of the girls and I talked about potentially taking the weekend to visit the iconic islands of Santorini or Mykonos. But as it turned out, we found that we only had one free day to do as we...
by compactscholars | May 29, 2019 | Compact Abroad
By Valerie Stohr This weekday evening, half of our group and I (about ten of us), struggling through the difficulties of jet lag, decided to leisurely explore Athens in the summer heat rather than just sleep in our hotel. After riding the metro from Megaro Mousikis to...
by compactscholars | May 29, 2019 | Compact Abroad
By Katie Mercer It was 8:00pm when my friends and I left the Athinais Hotel on Leoforos Vasilissis Sofias Street in search of dinner. Despite being famished and exhausted after a trek up to the iconic Acropolis earlier that day, the air around us was buzzing with...
by compactscholars | May 28, 2019 | Compact Abroad
by Priscilla Estrada The children’s laughter filled the basketball court on this unexpectedly sunny evening as we played together under the warm bright sun. It was supposed to rain sometime that day according to the weather forecast I had checked that morning. As I...
by compactscholars | May 24, 2019 | Compact Abroad
By Leiana Talo Lepule My peers, advisors, in-country coordinator, and I in our large group of twenty-three travelers had been walking around the historical ruins of the Acropolis for about two hours before we gathered back at the front of the museum that stood next to...
by compactscholars | May 24, 2019 | Compact Abroad
By Carlett Serratos Sweaty and tired, our stomachs empty and our frustration growing by the second, a few of the girls and I headed toward the small Athens neighborhood near Monastiraki Square. See, our day began quite nice actually. We visited the Acropolis and saw...
by compactscholars | May 23, 2019 | Compact Abroad
by Samuel Gabbara-Venegas Compact Scholars and program leaders at the south slopes of the Acropolis, with the Parthenon in the background (prior to the steep hike to the top). We spent our first full day of the trip in Athens — and what an adventurous first day...
by compactscholars | May 22, 2019 | Compact Abroad
by Amanda Fuller On this unusually rainy morning in San Diego, 19 Compact Scholars and their families gathered in front of Viejas Arena at 7:00AM to say goodbye. These students were about to embark on a two week faculty-led study abroad program in Greece. Accompanied...
by compactscholars | Apr 16, 2018 | Compact Abroad
Compact Scholar student Kyle Sablan recently studied abroad to Japan under the Gilman Scholarship and is eager to share his travel experience and tips with prospective study abroad students. Read his personally run blog Study Abroad at Yokohama National University;...
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