Hanging up my backpack… just for a little while
After a week of gorging on pizza, deli sandwiches, and bagels, I’m well over the missing New York stage. Yes, I’ve returned to the land of Brooklyn accents and a Super Bowl Sunday… READ MORE →
Adam’s Video Blog Introduction
http://youtu.be/qTuqocXw348 Meet Gilman correspondent Adam Simons. From Fall 2011 to Spring 2012, Adam studied in Amman, Jordan. The Gilman Global Experience allows Gilman Scholars an opportunity to record videos around an academic theme and share it with classrooms back in… READ MORE →
日本つづく・・・Japan, To Be Continued…
Though Japan and The United States are equally first world countries, they diverge continually in respect to modern conveniences, and even more so when it comes to cultural norms and everyday modes of operation. As I have been back in California for… READ MORE →
How has study abroad influenced my academic and personal goals?
I got to set off on the adventure I always wanted. This trip, studying abroad in the United Kingdom, has been the fulfillment of a dream. The chance to study in a foreign… READ MORE →
Culture Shock in Jordan
I enter the café in hopes of finding some good wi-fi to skype my parents with. I ask if there is wireless internet, I am informed by the waiter there is indeed wifi at this particular establishment. Then I am… READ MORE →
Investing in the Middle East during the Arab Spring
These past three months in Amman I have spent my Mondays at an internship at the Jordan Investment Board, a semi-government organization tasked with enticing foreign investors to bring their business to Jordan, through publishing flashy literature on the vital… READ MORE →
Practical Waste Management
Upon visiting Japan for the first time, one might notice something peculiar about the streets, might notice the absence of something that it usually so commonplace in other countries, but that one wouldn’t notice the absence of until necessary—in Japan,… READ MORE →
Seeking home at the bottom of a jar
All I wanted was peanut butter. About a month into my stay in Buenos Aires, I was going crazy for peanut butter and was seriously dedicated to finding some. It’s not the most common thing here, where super-sweet dulce de… READ MORE →
Studying sustainability while in the United Kingdom
Studying sustainability while abroad has probably amplified my awareness of how human impact on the environment is dealt with here. In general, the cars are smaller and therefore more fuel-efficient. The only person in my building who has a car… READ MORE →
日本語で未来へ見る Looking into the Future with the Japanese Language
Ever since stepping into my very first class of my very first day in High School I have had a sincere, dedicated interest in learning the Japanese language. I initially pursued learning Japanese with no intention other than to become… READ MORE →