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  • garrettnongalere
  • 08-Aug-2015
Friends Taking the Shock Out of Culture

My first couple of weeks trying to manage what I will call my new and transformational “Chinese life” definitely presentedRead More ⇾

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  • garrettnongalere
  • 15-Jul-2015
Aerial Amalgam: Departure & First Impressions

Since this is my first time posting a blog for the Gilman Global Experience Blog, let me give you allRead More ⇾

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  • Tarrajna in China
  • 08-Jan-2015
“Setting Foot on One’s Own Country as a Foreign Land”

Nearly every day of my semester abroad my colleagues and I would long for something we missed about the States,Read More ⇾

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  • Tarrajna in China
  • 19-Dec-2014
Culture Shock in Forward and Reverse

Upon arrival in Beijing, I was terrified to cross the street. Mopeds, taxis, three-wheeled vehicles, cars and buses all viedRead More ⇾

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  • Tarrajna in China
  • 20-Oct-2014
Leaving the Comfort of Home: #Chinathings, traveling as opportunity, and more!

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort ofRead More ⇾

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  • Tarrajna in China
  • 30-Sep-2014
Entering the Black Hole: Month #1 in China

Hello!  My name is Tarrajna Walsh, and I am a senior from Loyola University Chicago in the United States.  IRead More ⇾

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  • alexmontoya2
  • 26-Sep-2014
Gilman Video Blogger Alex – Internship Reflection

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaREInayRI4&w=560&h=315] Meet U.S. Department of State sponsored Gilman Scholarship recipient Alex Montoya. Alex was a Gilman Global Experience Correspondent duringRead More ⇾

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  • alexmontoya2
  • 19-Sep-2014
Gilman Video Blogger Alex – A Day in the Life

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfiObzdH7Mw&w=560&h=315] Meet U.S. Department of State sponsored Gilman Scholarship recipient Alex Montoya. Alex was a Gilman Global Experience Correspondent duringRead More ⇾

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  • alexmontoya2
  • 12-Sep-2014
Meet Gilman Video Blogger – Alex

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsXllQM45JI&w=560&h=315] Meet U.S. Department of State sponsored Gilman Scholarship recipient Alex Montoya. Alex was a Gilman Global Experience Correspondent duringRead More ⇾

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  • alexmontoya2
  • 03-Sep-2014
From China to Texas

Stepping off the plane from China I know that I will have some problems adjusting being back in good ‘oleRead More ⇾

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  • alexmontoya2
  • 11-Jul-2014
Road to China

Howdy world! My name is Alex Montoya and I am from Canyon, Texas. I currently am a senior (Wahoo) atRead More ⇾

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  • Aaron Records
  • 28-Feb-2014
Here’s to Growing Up

It would be a terrible lie if I dared say China has not changed me. It has, and what IRead More ⇾