Author: Steven Levy

By Guest 29 January 2014 Former Sports Management Intern (and amazing part-time photographer) Peter Erdahl takes us on a photographic tour through Buenos Aires… Jardín Botanico in Palermo                                                      Recoleta Cemetery Recoleta Cemetery La Boca La Boca                                   […]

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By Guest 21 January 2014 Ilana, a civil engineering major from the US, has been an intern on Connect-123’s Barcelona program since September.  El drac A few weeks ago I acted as a tour guide for my parents in Barcelona. I had been here for two and a half months and was surprised at how […]

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Sarah Shefferly has spent the last few months in Barcelona as an intern for an online urban art, music, and events magazine. And this is a day in her life, taken from her blog: http://sheffrox.tumblr.com/. 8:17am: My alarm goes off. I press snooze and attempt to go back to sleep for another 30 minutes but my […]

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After spending more than 24 hours straight in airports arriving in Cape Town was relieving. Just the drive from the airport to the building I would be calling home for the next 11 weeks was amazing and the scenery like nothing I have seen back in the states. On the first day we started the […]

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Andrew Schleeter is a Connect-123 youth developement and sports intern in Cape Town.  He shares with us some insights gained by working with an organization that supports and empowers youth through sports and mentorship in one of the most disadvantaged communities in the area. There are many facets that make up the townships just outside […]

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I always learn something fundamental about life with every trip I make abroad. So I was getting a bit disappointed when I had not had an epiphany close to the end of my internship in Cape Town. I had been working at my internship for two and a half months at that point, and I […]

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Cape Town has easily become home to me. I’ve made good friends, found a great church, and learned how to get around affordably. The first time my friend and I went to church, we took a cab and had to pay R100 one way. We loved the church, but the cost of transportation seemed above […]

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2012 Connect-123 Scholarship recipient Sally Amkoa is headed to Cape Town for an Economic Development internship this month.   After spending three months in Costa Rica and 3 days in Panama early this year, I thought I could simply check studying abroad off my bucket list and move on to better things. However, I fell in […]

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Hannah Buck is a Connect-123 Barcelona journalism intern this summer.  Click here to learn more about Hannah, and keep reading for her account of the San Vino festival! I kicked off my first festival – the one and only wine fight on a mountain in Spain, San Vino – by lugging lots of heavy boxes […]

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Journalism intern Hannah Buck shares her plans for the summer in Barcelona. About two months ago I had absolutely no idea how I would be spending summer 2012. I had just finished a teaching assistantship in the south of France, and after a year of constant travelling and new experiences I was slowly becoming conscious […]

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