Study Abroad Bloggers

Ahnika White is an aspiring travel writer from the midwestern United States living in Ireland, where she's pursuing her goal of earning a master's degree in English Literature at the University of Limerick.

Audrey Ardanaz hails from Spanglish descent and has dedicated her life to communication and language. She is currently an English-teacher, travel writer, and poet living in Spain in constant search of experience.

Currently enrolled at McMaster University, Bindiya Haria is in the third year of the Commerce Program, majoring in finance. A passionate vegetarian, avid yogi and an always inquisitive traveller, she's thoroughly excited to be spending a semester in Scotland, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Cynthia Ma has started her last year of a psychology degree in Canada and joined an exchange program to study in Nagoya, Japan for a unique school semester. Her exchange school at Nagoya Gakuin University includes classes in Japanese language and culture.

Emily King is a third-year Psychology undergraduate from the University of Sussex in England, and is currently undertaking an Erasmus year abroad at the University of Amsterdam.

Evelyn Harford is a Canadian journalist completing her Master of Journalism at Carleton University. She will spend her summer completing a documentary on female urban farmers in Nairobi, Kenya. Her travels will then take her through Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.

Iris Fu is studying Mandarin in Taiwan through the National Security Language Initiative scholarship granted by the U.S. Department of State during the summer between her junior and senior year of high school.

Jessica Schalburg is a Canadian PhD candidate at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, studying biological anthropology. When not in the office or the field, you can find her running, hiking, camping, skiing or exploring.

Juliann Li is a second year Dartmouth student studying International Relations and French. She is currently studying abroad and learning about French civilization, literature, and art history in Paris as a student on the Dartmouth French program.

Kalee Fambrough is finishing her Bachelor’s degree in Marketing in Birmingham, Alabama at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In September 2015, Kalee will travel to London, England to complete her Master’s in Marketing Communications and Advertising at Kingston University.

Katrina Keegan is a University of Chicago student studying in St. Petersburg, Russia for the 2018-2019 academic year through the Bard-Smolny Program. She is living with a host family and taking classes with local students.

Kyle David Anderson is Associate Professor of Chinese and the Director of the Center for Global Citizenship at Centre College. He is a former Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays scholar and has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and North America. He currently splits his time managing Centre College’s programs and seeking out new opportunities for faculty, staff and students.

American Mark Oprea is currently studying abroad in Florence, Italy. Other than blogging about his wanderings throughout Europe, he writes short fiction about people that interest him.

Meghan McKenna is a media theory and writing student at Ontario’s Western University. Meghan recently returned from a semester of studying with the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

Mikee Mutuc is a journalism student from Toronto, Canada currently continuing her studies for the fall semester of 2016 at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

Nele (Nayla) van Hout is a Dutch student who decided to study a full-time degree in overseas. She now lives in Manchester where she studies English and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, England, UK.

Phoebe Todd-Parrish is an ambitious and adventurous student of Visual Arts at York University in Toronto, who long ago conceded to the cliché of having "caught the travel bug." This itch for new sites and sounds to dazzle her senses landed her across the world in Melbourne, Australia, where she's studying abroad for a semester at Monash University. She can't wait to share all her (mis)adventures and discoveries.

After finishing her undergrad in Toronto, Roop Gill worked as journalist for a year. Giving into her wanderlust, she packed up her life in Canada and is currently doing a cross-continental MA through the Erasmus Programme that will take her from Denmark to Australia to England. She can’t understand how this happened, but she has managed to pick three of the most expensive places in the world to live as a student, but she is determined not to let that stand in her way of travelling.

Sophie Demetriades has begun her third year with the University of Leicester by joining the Erasmus program to study in Bologna, Italy for a year abroad. Her classes at the Università di Bologna include English Literature and Italian language.