Sunday, October 14, 2012

Alumni in Athens!

Making your Study Abroad pay off in the future!

There is a group of American grad students teaching English to Greek students here in Athens. These grad students, like in CYA, come from schools all over the US. They spend the entire academic year here, teaching and exploring Greece. As apart of their program, they are required to take a modern Greek language class. Of course, CYA is the collaborative program helping them learn Greek. They were invited for a meet and greet here at the Academic Center. CYA Students who are currently undergrads at the Universities these Grad students graduated from were invited to meet them and talk about their abroad experience. It was nice to meet with someone who's attending Warner School of Education, U of Rs Education Grad school. She went from being an Undergrad to a Grad student flawlessly through the system-and is really pleased. I like seeing the different doors that open when you branch out like this. I truly feel like my possibilities are limitless. I can see myself teaching English in Athens for a year. Programs like this exist in many foreign countries, I could go almost anywhere. Hopefully we'll have the opportunity to pick these students minds some more before the semester is over. They're invited to all the same extra trips as we are, so we shall see where that goes.

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