Mendoza, Argentina
Professor Thornton has a Facebook page for the Mendoza, Argentina May Term Abroad program. Lots more pictures of our Tigers Abroad! https://www.facebook.com/groups/474557892693839/
Category: May Term
Mendoza, Argentina: Excursion
Professor Thornton shares some pictures from the May Term Abroad in Argentina program’s tour to of the Zucardi vineyard. The students in the Wine Economics class impressed the tour guide with their knowledge! Separating the leaves from the grape clusters: Creating and Storing the Wine: At the Zucardi restaurant:
Josh Miller: Post 2
Josh Miller H-SC May Term Abroad Mendoza, Argentina Summer 2015 June 8, 2015 Now having been in Mendoza for a little over two weeks, I have settled into a routine. In the mornings, I eat a traditional Argentine light breakfast of toast, dulce de leche, and coffee. I’m not really a breakfast person so this works well for me. After breakfast, I catch the bus which drops me off near Plaza Independencia, which is only a short walk from the classroom. Class is two hours with a 30 minute break, and then the second two hour class. There is a […]
Matt Carter: Post 1
Matt Carter H-SC May Term Abroad Münster, Germany Summer 2015 June 2, 2015 Hallo! Wie gehts es? You might not know what these “foreign” words are/mean, but I am simply asking “How are you?” in German, a common phrase said multiple times throughout the day. So far we have been in Deutschland (Germany) for 5 days and what an eventful 5 days it was! After the grueling 8-8 ½ hour flight from the Dulles Airport to the Frankfurt Airport we hopped aboard a small puddle jumper plane to Düsseldorf where we made our way to the bus and head out […]
Josh Miller: Post 1
Josh Miller H-SC May Term Abroad Mendoza, Argentina Summer 2015 May 27, 2015 After traveling for around 24 hours, my fellow Hampden-Sydney students and I arrived in Mendoza Friday morning. The length of the travel time was the least stressful part of the trip though. We arrived at the airport in Richmond ready to set out on the trip of a lifetime. We immediately ran into problems at the check in desk, this was a small portion of the problems we would face. We had been previously informed that the airline would allow us to have two checked backs at […]
Mendoza, Argentina
The H-SC May Term Abroad Program arrived safely in Mendoza, Argentina on Friday. Here are some of the pictures Dr. Thornton has sent. Thanks, Dr. Thornton! Look for posts soon from our student blogger, Josh Miller! About to Board the Plane in Richmond Argentine Steak for Lunch 14 Floors Up San Martin Monument Andes View Traditional Asado Dinner of Grilled Meats with […]
In Another Country Revisited
by R. Wesley Proctor ’10 I don’t really know how to describe my preconceptions going into my May Term abroad program in Costa Rica other than about 95% pure excitement mixed with 5% apprehension about living with a foreign family whom I knew relatively little about, not to mention the language barrier. Hindsight is 20/20 and I have the good fortune of being able to say that I would not have done anything differently. Pushing myself to speak the language and interact with the family and the local community yielded tremendous dividends in both conversational improvement as well as in […]
Reflections on Japan – May Term 2007
by Benjamin M. Brown ‘10 (At Kegon Fall – left to right, first row, sitting – Ben Brown ’10, David Bowen ’09 Second row, crouching – Andrew Wolfe ’08, Wes Julian ’08, Richard Shelby ’08, Cory Cutler ’08, Warren Beth ’09 Third row, standing – Clay Behl ’08, John Rothgeb ’08, Anson Bird ’08, Christian L’Heureux ’08, Alex Modny ’08, Matthew Dubroff, Eric Dinmore) On a particularly dark night in May, twelve students embarked on a journey from Hampden-Sydney to the Land of the Rising Sun. With Professors Eric Dinmore and Matthew Dubroff leading this procession through Japan, a land of dragons, […]
Study Abroad 2003-2004
During the 2003-2004 academic year, 72 Hampden-Sydney students studied abroad in 11 different countries. The length of study ran from a full academic year to May Term courses and ranged from Europe to Central America to Australia and New Zealand. On September 2, many of the participants gathered in the Parents & Friends Lounge and several shared stories of their adventures. G. W. Zuban ’06 of Chesterfield, VA, studied at University of St. Andrews, Scotland, for the Spring Semester 2004. G.W. chose St. Andrews because of its solid academic reputation and it because is substantially larger than Hampden-Sydney College but […]
May Term 2004 in Costa Rica
By Monti Mercer ’06Dr. M. Carolina Y?er, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, parted from her family for two and half weeks to take eleven Hampden-Sydney men to Costa Rica for tropical biology research. We were able to perform studies on plants and animals found at three biological stations located around the country, each with its own tropical forest genre. The stations are run by the Organizations for Tropical Studies (OTS), a non-profit consortium that focuses on undergraduate and graduate level education in tropical biology. Six days were spent on campus preparing for all the research that would be performed […]