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Hola amigos! This past week we had many ups and downs. Two weeks ago we started our “tracks” in which we chose to take classes in Food Systems, Botany, or Spanish, depending on our individual interests and majors/minors. I chose Spanish myself and it turned out to be a little more than I bargained for, yet [...]

  It’s been a long time since I’ve posted which leaves a lot of catching up to do. Two weeks ago we finished our 6 week session at the language school, Solexico, and had four days reserved for research on our independent projects. This time, of course, was spent unproductively enjoying Oaxaca state’s beautiful beaches [...]

Hola todos! In my most recent field trip, my group and I traveled to the small pueblo of Capulalpam located in the mountains of Oaxaca. Unlike the city and most of its surroundings, these mountains were full of vegetation, potable water and refreshingly clean air; the experience was reminiscent of Vermont during springtime. The trip [...]

Hola todos! This is my fourth week in Oaxaca, Mexico and I’m still not bored of the food, the city, or the people and I don’t expect I ever will. It seems there are endless things to discover here and I will never stop learning or enjoying this place! For example, this week we traveled [...]

GLOBAL GRAM – Week of Jan. 30 Sarah’s New Blog Post: Third Week in Oaxaca! Read all about her third week here. EVENTS THIS WEEK: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 Tavola Italiana Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Description: TAVOLA ITALIANA: Join in for informal Italian conversation hour! Meet at the tables between the Marche and Alice’s Cafe. 5:00…[Read more]

Hola todos! Although this is my third week here in Oaxaca, I still have many things to learn about the culture and people of Mexico. For example, towards the end of the week, we traveled to a village outside the city called Santa Ana del Valle and spent a night there. There, we stayed with [...]

  Welcome back! Hope the first week of classes went well. It’s a busy second week of the semester in the Global Village. NEW THIS SEMESTER: Sarah Leidinger will be writing for the Global Village blog while studying abroad in Oaxaca this semester. Exciting! Please check out her first post here. EVENTS THIS WEEK: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 <a …[Read more]

Hola todos! My name is Sarah Leidinger and I’m a sophomore currently studying abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico for the semester with the UVM Oaxaca program. Before I applied for the program, I knew I wanted to go abroad for a semester and had my heart set on doing a semester abroad in Spain during my [...]

Scenes from last night’s Global Village Open Suite night!

Let’s Talk Politics! I don’t know how many of you have been watching the news, or keeping up whats going on in this region, but there’s a a new Middle East forming! What a time to be here with all the recent events that started with Tunisia and Egypt overthrowing there leaders and are now [...]

я люблю тебя москва! Hello all! I hope you’re all enjoying the spring weather- It’s gotten significantly nicer here so I can only imagine what it’s like in the States! Almost all the snow has melted and the majority of the canals are rid of the massive ice chunks they were previously covered in. Today is [...]

Hi Everyone! Today I’m writing a little bit about, in my opinion, one of the most interesting aspects of life in St. Petersburg- Transportation. In Glastonbury, my experience with public transportation reached no further than taking the bus to and from school, which doesn’t really even count. Burlington was no better, I used the city [...]

So much to say I don’t even know where to start! We almost ran out of water last week and I was afraid I couldn’t shower and I also went to the Dead Sea! Water poverty- Jordan is the 4th poorest water country in the world. People here just don’t have much water and have [...]

Hi guys! Can you believe it’s almost the end of my fifth week in St. Petersburg? I definitely can’t- time is flying by so quickly this semester. Right now I’m in the library at school on a break between classes, so I figured I’d do a post about what I’m studying here and how my [...]

This week I want to talk about one of the biggest problems facing the Middle East- poverty.  The average  Jordanian makes about $5000 U.S. dollars a year. The average American makes about $45,000 U.S. dollars a year. This gap is bewildering to me. I can’t comprehend how anyone can live on such a little amount, [...]

Hey guys! So today I thought I’d just do a little post about where I live. St.Petersburg is a really interesting city in the fact that it is divided in many parts by the Neva River, which create separate islands throughout the city. Therefore, the area is covered in really beautiful canals and bridges.  I [...]

Hi Everyone! Sorry I have not written yet. My time here has been crazy and I have had little to no Internet! I am so used to being able to access the computer and get things I need instantly that life here is a big adjustment. Also- I can only access the Internet at a [...]

Hello UVM! I’m sorry it has been so long since my last post!  I have been her for almost three weeks and despite some initial setbacks getting a stable internet connection I have finally figured everything out and I will be posting much more regularly from here on out! I flew out of Boston on [...]

Jen Anderson

Hello! or as they say in Russian ‘Привет’! My name is Jen Anderson , I’m twenty years old and I am originally from Glastonbury, Connecticut. I’m in my junior year here at The University of Vermont where I major in Russian Language and minor in English. I absolutely love UVM and have thoroughly enjoyed every second of my time [...]

Hey, everyone!  So this is my last entry for the semester and I really appreciate those of you who have checked out my blog.  This last entry might sound a bit pessimistic, but it features a good message.  It deals with what I learned from this whole experience and what others can do if he/she [...]

Hey, everyone!  So this week has to do with smoking in Japan.  Back at UVM, I see people smoke cigarettes a lot.  I was a bit taken aback by the amount of people who smoked, actually (I also find it ironic that a popular place to smoke is in front of Fletcher-Allen).  Also, the price [...]

Hello, everyone.  Let me first start by saying that I’m a bit nervous about this particular post.  I don’t want people to think that I am labeling the Japanese as a racist group of people, nor do I want you to think that I am an expert on racism (white, middle-class upbringing).  I chose to [...]

No, readers, this isn’t about the alcohol (I swear I hear people clicking out of my blog after reading that).  Instead, I want to write about the various soft drinks Japan has to offer.  Back at UVM, a lot of people drink water, tea, coffee and soda.  That pretty much seems to be the case [...]

Hello, readers! So this past weekend, my abroad group and I went to the old city of Nara to view the historic temples and indulge in Hanami (flower viewing). Needless to say, the trip was incredible. The weather couldn’t have been better: 75º and sunny the entire two days. We first went to old capital [...]

Hello once again! So as I said, this blog has to do with springtime in Japan. What I didn’t know was that I would receive an unexpected call. I might have told you already that I was supposed to live with a host family (the Ebihara family) this semester. Unfortunately, the father suffered a “health [...]

Hello, readers! So this time, I’m going to blog about Japanese concerts. Due to the fact that I will miss out on Springfest this year, I chose to find a concert to make up for it. As it turned out, one of my favorite Japanese groups, Capsule, played in Nagoya this past Saturday. Capsule comprises [...]

View image Hello, Readers. I’m sorry again about the last post, but this time will be better. I realized that I hadn’t yet described the most important part of my study abroad experience: the city itself. Nagoya, a city of about 2.3 million people, sits in between Kyoto and Tokyo. It’s actually a pretty old city, [...]

Hello again, readers and yes, you read right. Before you get too excited, let me explain: This festival is a Shinto (one of Japan’s two official religion, the other being Buddhism) festival. According to Wikipedia, the festival deals with purification by means of the removal of clothing. That being said, I had never even heard [...]

Hello again, readers. As promised this blog will talk about how the Japanese handle recycling. Fortunately, for those of you who either can’t stand me or have very short attention spans, this blog happens to be fairly short. I chose to write this because Japan, like UVM, takes recycling pretty seriously. I remember back at [...]

皆様今日は（Hello everyone)! Allow me to apologize in advance for not posting this past Sunday. Last week, a large group of IES students, including myself, took a trip to Osaka. During this trip, I had very little access to a computer and I wanted to devote my time and energy to being in this fantastic city. [...]

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 1st is a BUSY week in the Global Village! Monday, February 1, 2010 4 p.m. — “A MOUNTAIN OF CRUMBS”: ELENA GOROKHOVA reading from her memoir about growing up in the Soviet Union. 4:00 p.m. Memorial Lounge, Waterman Bldg. Tuesday February 2, 2010 Noon to 1:15 p.m. — RLC EVENT: “Consumption for the [...]

皆様今日は（Hello everyone)! If you happen to be interested in studying abroad, this post covers one of the most important aspects of your study-abroad-experience: housing in a dorm/homestay. My experience happens to be unique, since I was confirmed to be with a host family. Due to the father’s recent health complication, however, I was relocated to [...]

Hello again, readers! This blog will revolve around classes at Nanzan University, thus short in natue as a result. If you’re like me, reading long blogs can be tedious and boring. Thus a short blog makes things a bit easier. At Nazan, all foreign students here are required to take a Japanese language course (the [...]

Hello Global Village, Welcome to the Global Village Blog! This is an exciting new part of the our website, in which we will post Global Grams, pictures and videos from events, and host guest bloggers. Sam Mishcon, a member of the Global Village’s Russian House, will be hosting a special travel blog as he spends the [...]

Hello Readers! My name is Sam Mishcon. I’m 21 years old and a junior at UVM. I am a Japanese major with a Russian minor. This blog that you are reading chronicles my current semester abroad in Nagoya, Japan. I chose to write this blog after Sarah Reid, the program coordinator of the Global Village [...]