In her own words:
My big adventure for the summer of 2023 is my study abroad "may-mester" to Europe. Over the course of the spring semester at the University of New Haven, I took two level-4000 (senior special topics) courses in Global Convergence and Migration, the "lab" portion to be completed during a month's stay in various European countries, with a home base in Paris. From May 22 to June 19, I will be visiting 8 European countries: France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
During the program's first free weekend, students were given free rein to travel across Europe. Two friends and I took the opportunity to visit Spain. We stayed in Valencia, Spain's third largest city. Our lodgings were a small hostel within Estacio del Norte, one of Valencia's train stations, where we shared living and sleeping spaces with roughly 10-20 strangers. Definitely an experience!
Friday and Saturday, we explored the city's historical sites and landmarks. We spent significant time at La Oceanografic, Europe's biggest aquarium, as well as Valencia Cathedral, Museo Historico, Municipal de Valencia, and El Micalet. After dinner, we also explored Valencia nightlife.
On Sunday, we spent the day in Ibiza. An unforeseen thunderstorm altered our plans of spending a relaxing afternoon on the beach, however we made the best of the day by exploring Ibiza's many small alleys and climbing Ibiza Castle once the rain let up. Finally, three hours before our flight back for mainland Spain took off, the sun finally came out and we celebrated with a brief dip in the Mediterranean.
Although many of our plans fell through or got rained out, we took every opportunity available to experience Spain. Now, it's back to France for a week and a half and then off to Switzerland.
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