Asia

Gyeongbokgung Palace

Summer in Seoul

Hello! My name is Kelly Pellegrino and I am a nursing major in my junior year of school. For about a month in the summer of 2022, I had the incredible opportunity to study abroad in Seoul, South Korea. With a very busy and difficult curriculum, many nursing students don’t think that it’s possible to […]

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Shania with host Family

The Japanese Homestay Experience

When I studied abroad in Japan, I decided to stay with a host family and it was one of the best choices I could have made. Not only did I receive a better cultural immersion, I can now also say that I have another family across the sea.

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Shania Soler at Mitake Mt.

Meet Shania

Hello world! I’m Shania and I work at the University of Maine as a Study Abroad Assistant with the Office of International Programs. I graduated from the UMaine in December 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in English and a minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies. I spent a majority of my Sophomore […]

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