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Originally posted by Allie
[BSo for all the people who have studied abroad, do you think it's worth the money to see the culture? [/B]
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I know this is a little after the fact, but....
Whenever you have the opportunity to study overseas,
take it!!! I spent four months living in Cambridge, England with 16 other students from my university and it was the best experience of my life. I would never trade those four months travelling (or the amount of money spent) for any other experience in the world. I still wish I could go back and study there again for another semester...the opportunity to meet new people and travel to all these places I'd only heard/learned about in school was incredible! I'm still in close contact with a number of the people I spent the four months with, and we all agreed that it was the best thing for us to do.
My chapter had at least one sister studying in Cambridge every semester for two years (and the director of the program is appointed for two years from our university), so there was an ADPi for both years our director was there! It was great to have that experience, because when myself and my roommate (another sister) arrived at our house, there was a box of items left in our room with a note from the sister who had just studied there the semester before (left for us there about three weeks earlier)....it was like we already had a homewarming gift from someone who knew what we were going to need and miss the most about being away from the States and our sisters. It was great!