
English: 
I'm Sheldon Price, and I was part of the
Capturing Greece: Color, Light, & Form program.
Hi, my name is Matt. I did the CET
Language Immersion in China program in Beijing.
Hi, my name is Morgan Reiten and I went on Bali: Water & Culture from Rainforests to Reefs.
First, I would say addressing students considering Greece: Definitely do it.
It is an incredible academic place
place to go in terms of the historical
significance, and then just the
cultural humanity significance of
Greece and just their culture.
There's such a rich history with the Greek
mythology.
Being the first person in my family
to go to school was a factor when
choosing to go to China.
I wanted to go to a place that my family had never been to.

English: 
I'm Sheldon Price, and I was part of the
Capturing Greece: Color, Light, & Form program.
Hi, my name is Matt. I did the CET
Language Immersion in China program in Beijing.
Hi, my name is Morgan Reiten and I went on Bali: Water & Culture from Rainforests to Reefs.
First, I would say addressing students considering Greece: Definitely do it.
It is an incredible academic place
cultural humanity significance of
priestly and just their culture there's
such a rich history with the Greek
mythology
Being the first in my family to  go to school was a factor when choosing to go to China I wanted to go
to a place that my family had never been
to I've been there before but I wanted

English: 
to be able to experience it our
classrooms we were in this like campy
area where we were in like a conference
room at the hotel and we decided guest
lectures a lot of our learning was
through excursions sometimes on the
weekends we would have excursions and so
we would go with our teachers and other
and other students in the program so
just doing that and meeting a bunch of
people going through the same thing and
see it was just really fun to hang out
with them
my dad had mainly been in like the
Middle East when he went abroad and that
was for his work and I decided to go to
Southeast Asia so I mean there wasn't
really a lot of overlap there and like
what he could tell me about like what to
expect but he really helped me with like
just understand that there are going to be cultural differences
cultural differences going to China was also a cultural experience for me because my
mom is Chinese but she didn't really
learn any of the culture growing up and
so for me I kind of got more in touch
with Chinese culture itself as much as I

English: 
I've been there before, but I wanted to be able to experience it.
Our classrooms were in this campy area
where we were in a conference
room at the hotel and we had guest lectures;
a lot of our learning was
through excursions.
Sometimes on the weekends, we would have excursions,
and so we would go with our teachers and other students in the program.
Just doing that and meeting a bunch of people going through the same thing—
it was just really fun to hang out with them.
My dad had mainly been in the
Middle East when he went abroad,
and that was for his work
and I decided to go to
southeast Asia. So there wasn't
really a lot of overlap there in
what he could tell me about what to expect.
But he really helped me 
just understand that there are going to be cultural differences.
Going to China was also
a cultural experience for me because
my mom is Chinese, but she didn't really
learn any of the culture growing up.
So for me I kind of got more in touch
with Chinese culture itself,

English: 
could at least it was a lot different and
just kind of feeling out of place in
some situations honestly like my family
doesn't have much of an international
background pretty localized in Minnesota
in terms of my family make the most of
your experience you should take it
seriously the studies in respect to
culture but also at the same time do
what you can to get out of the
off-campus and interact with people and
make friends of people from the country
go out to eat different places and just
do whatever you can to experience the
culture in the country because once
you're gone you'll be like "oh I wish I
would have done this" while I was there
but try to when you're there do the things
that you want to do make the best of
your experience it's just something when
you just have to take that step and be
courageous and I promise you it's gonna
work out for you

English: 
as much as I could, at least.
It was a lot different, and
just kind of feeling out of place in some situations.
Honestly, my family
doesn't have much of an international background.
We're pretty localized in Minnesota
in terms of my family.
Make the most of your experience.
You should take it
seriously—the studies, and respect the culture—
but also at the same time, do
what you can to get out:
Go off campus and interact with people and make friends with people from the country.
Go out to eat different places and just
do whatever you can to experience the
culture in the country, because once
you're gone you'll be like, "Oh I wish I
would have done this while I was there."
Try to, when you're there, do the things
that you want to do. Make the best of
your experience.
It's just something when you just have to take that step and be courageous.
and I promise you it's gonna work out for you.
