Hello Everyone, I hope you all had a great week! This week was bittersweet for me because it is the last full week I get to spend with many of the friends that I have made here. Most of them are only studying abroad for one semester but I will be here for another one. …
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Hello everyone, I hope you all enjoyed the holidays this week and spent quality time with your family and friends. For Christmas Eve, I was invited by Lubna, one of my internship supervisors to have dinner with her family at her house. This was such a great experience and she and her family showed me …
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Hello Everyone, I hope you all had a great week! This week was full of birthday celebrations for me. On Monday and Tuesday night my friends and I from the international school went to the German Colony in Haifa to have dinner. During this time of the year, the German Colony is decorated with many …
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Hello Everyone, I had a great week and I hope you all did as well. I would like to start this week’s post by expressing how happy I am with my decision to study abroad. This has been one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences of my life. Living abroad for a year on …
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great week because I had an amazing one. I received my grades back from all of my midterms from the previous week. I got an A on my midterm paper for Terrorism and Responses, and A’s on both of my midterms for spoken Arabic and MSA Arabic. …
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Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a great week. I would like to start off this week’s blog post by discussing one of my favorite things about the culture in Israel. I truly appreciate the generosity of the people that I have met here. I cannot count the number of times I have been …
Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great week! I would like to start off this week’s blog post by talking about my overall academic experience so far at the University of Haifa, Israel. I have thoroughly enjoyed my classes and would say that my favorite class is Terrorism and Responses. My teacher has …
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Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a great week. This week was very busy for me. I had a presentation on extremist right-wing terrorism and domestic terrorism for my terrorism and responses class. Additionally, I am finishing up my application for the Critical Language Scholarship which will enable me to study Arabic abroad in …
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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a great week! This week I want to discuss my tips for funding your study abroad trip whether you are considering study abroad for yourself or know of someone who is interested. When I first heard about study abroad, I thought that there would be no way that …
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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a great week. This week was very busy for me due to the holidays coming to an end. My schedule is packed Monday-Thursday due to classes and my internship. Day by day, I feel that I am getting stronger in my Arabic conversational skills especially during my internship …
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