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Bridge the Ocean Entrepreneurship Project - I had the opportunity  to attend BTO Entrepreneurship Module hosted by Nova Scot...

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Sean Kettley's Blog

Culinary Project in Peru - What do you say when asked “do you want to try?” For, me, the answer is alway...

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Jalen Carter's Blog

IT Summer School in Croatia - Three weeks in Croatia was an incredible experience. I picked up some invaluab...

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Evan Rafuse's Blog

IT Summer School in Croatia - There are only two ways to travel. The first is when you (if you’re privileg...

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Colin Kibenge-MacLeod's Blog

IT Summer School in Croatia - The IT Summer in Croatia 2022 retreat in Croatia was a lifechanging and humbli...

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Tiffany Jesso's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer School in The Netherlands - The trip to the Netherlands was more than I coul...

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Mitchell Bailey's Blog

Spanish & Service Learning Summer School in Ecuador - My four weeks spent in Ecuador were nothing sho...

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Mike Williams' Blog

Spanish & Service Learning Summer School in Ecuador - Having done next to no international traveling dur...

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Linnaea Oland's Blog

Spanish & Service Learning Summer School in Ecuador - Two particularly meaningful moments for me during ...

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John Kanellakos' Blog

Spanish & Service Learning Summer School in Ecuador - During the summer of 2022, I had the once-in-a-lif...

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Amber Hartlin's Blog

Spanish & Service Learning Summer School in Ecuador - This summer I was fortunate to spend a total of 4 ...

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Fawzi Ibrahim's Vlog

Spanish & Service Learning Summer School in Ecuador

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - I have such a huge feeling of gratitude as I write this blog po...

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Travis David's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam -

A ...

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Sebastien Mazerolle's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - Travelling to Vietnam was very exhausting, with the Halifax to ...

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Sam Ferguson's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - My time at Tra Vinh University was been an absolute delight. I ...

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Mary Grace Cambaliza's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - As a Filipino traveler, I’ve always wanted to visit the rest ...

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Goldie Miller's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - My senses are awakened! Traveling to an Asian country woke me u...

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Amber Luayo's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - I am Amber, a professional photography student who is about to ...

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Destiny Tobin's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - Well, where do I start about this experience? The new friends, ...

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Grace MacPhee's Blog

International Days in Social Work in Austria -  International days in social work is an opportunity I would...

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Denise Ouellette's Blog

International Days in Social Work in Austria - I had been patiently waiting to attend the Two-Week Internati...

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Bethany McNeil's Blog

International Days in Social Work in Austria - Many aspects of my trip to Austria stood out, creating long-l...

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Grace Densmore's Blog

International Days in Social Work in Austria - This opportunity has been nothing short of amazing. 

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Alex Sack-Redden's Blog

International Days in Social Work in Austria - I had the amazing opportunity to go to Austria and attend the...

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Natasha Handerek's Blog

International Days in Social Work in Austria - My name is Natasha Handerek and I participated in the interna...

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Dawson Murphy's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer School in The Netherlands - One week into the Hanze Summer School program, I...

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Abra Morrison's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer School in The Netherlands - I have had a lovely time discovering and explori...

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Jordon Carey's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer School in The Netherlands - The trip to the Netherlands was more than I coul...

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Sam Adler's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer School in The Netherlands - Doing Business in Europe was the most ...

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Helen-Ann Burrows' Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer School in The Netherlands

Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Professional Skills Project in St. Kitts & Nevis - I had the...

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Tara Laceby's Blog

Bridge the Ocean Project Finland - “Do more of what makes you happy”; this is a magnet I have in my offi...

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Michelle Muis' Blog

Bridge the Ocean Project Finland - 24-hour daylight, snow, 131 reindeer, 1 moose, and 1 ice fishing trip lat...

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Sara Ede's Blog

The Happiness Now Project in Tanzania - Today was our travel day from VHTTI to Ngorongoro Crater for our sc...

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Janet Hawkwood's Blog

Bridge the Ocean Project in Finland - Once again NSCC International has helped create a fantastic internatio...

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Travis David's Blog

The Happiness Project in Tanzania - A Lesson in Living - I had...

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Lydia MacNeil's Blog

The Happiness Project in Tanzania - In May of 2022 myself and 14 other students and 4 faculty members from 6...

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Tyree Haley's Blog

 Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Professional Skills Project in St. Kitts & Nevis - St. Kit...

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Donntayia Jones' Blog

Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Professional Skills Project in St. Kitts & Nevis - Hi everyo...

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Kristen Wilcott's Blog

My name is Kristen and I had the opportunity to travel with NSCC International to the beautiful Saint Kitts and Nevis in May ...

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Adrienne Glasgow's Blog

Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Professional Skills Project in St. Kitts & Nevis - On May 15...

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Stephen Barrett's Blog

The Happiness Project in Tanzania - Africa is a continent with a soul. It has a way of changing you. It is v...

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Rosanne Cavanaugh's Blog

The Happiness Project in Tanzania - It was the start of our safari weekend. We were all excited and hyper fo...

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Krista Taverner's Blog

The Happiness Project in Tanzania - I feel very blessed to have participated as a faculty lead in the Happin...

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Heather Walker's Blog

The Happiness Project in Tanzania - "Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen?" 

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - My journey to Finnish Lapland started in the public library, where I attended ...

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Emma Simard's Blog

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - It is no wonder the Finnish are the happiest people on the planet. Although ou...

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Savanah Emslie's Blog

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - My favourite part of the trip was the final dinner we did. Seeing all the diff...

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Jorden Conrad's Blog

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - Having joined the Bridge the Ocean Finland project, I expected to learn a lot ...

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Chelsea Bernard's Blog

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - Going to Finland with NSCC International was one of the best decisions, if not...

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Nick Highmore's Blog

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - When signing up as part of the documentation crew heading to Finland, I was no...

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Ella Hanson's Blog

Bridge the Ocean in Finland - When I signed up for Bridge the Ocean 2022, Finland, I never thought that I wo...

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The First Challenges When I Came to the Land of Maple Leaves (Canada)

 I grew up in Vietnam, which has warm weather and beautiful beaches. Vietnam has four seasons; spring and summer are the mos...

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City to City

Being an International student in Canada, and having stayed in Vancouver for two years, whenever someone from outside here as...

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A diploma in resilience

When I first started my program in 2019, I had no idea about the pandemic and the challenges it would bring. I really loved m...

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Watch, pause, repeat.

Watch, pause, repeat. This third lockdown feels like déjà vu and I wonder if there will be a fourth or a fifth. I often pau...

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Michelle Small - A culinary passion that extends borders

Culinary Exchange with the Philippines - Imagine relocating to Canada from the Bahamas and collaborating on ...

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Kevin Ritchen's Blog

Good day everyone, my name is Kevin Ritchen and I am a national of the Federation of St. Kitts And Nevis, two islands in the ...

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Restrictions lead to innovation

The restrictions brought on by covid have made people all over the world change their approach, and the Pacific Alliance proj...

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My (first) international webinar

Indeed, these were my first international webinars. I came into the experience with no expectations; or maybe some, this may ...

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Being an ISA is great!

I am Emon Majumder. I moved to Halifax from Bangladesh to study IT Programming at Nova Scotia Community College. Before movin...

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The future of project collaboration

Well!  who’d have thought that we could have reached so many from South America from our dining room tables?! Nothing can ...

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Felipe Lenz's Blog

My name is Felipe Lenz, I am from Brazil and this is my second semester as a full-time student at NSCC. I am here today to te...

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World Refugee Day through Jacob Aleer’s Perspective

With so many global crises ranging from discriminations to civil wars, many people around the globe are familiar with the ter...

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Alley Nguyen' Blog

My name is Alley Nguyen, from Vietnam, I have been finishing my second semester at NSCC. This is my third year staying in Can...

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From crisis to opportunity

Hi, this is Yasemin, an international student at NSCC in the Industrial Engineering Technology program and I wanted to share ...

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Staying strong and united

My name is Raquel, and I am an international student from Brazil. In the last couple of weeks, I started working with NSCC In...

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Celia Deer's Blog

My name is Celia Deer and I am an international student at NSCC Akerley campus from the beautiful island of Jamaica. I curren...

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Oliver Klement's Blog

Hi everyone my name is Oliver and I absolved the social services program at NSCC Ivany campus this semester. For me as nature...

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It's the small things. . .

It all starts towards the end of February for me, when my ‘nothing-ever-worries-me’ sister sends me a WhatsApp message te...

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An unlikely teacher: what the pandemic taught me

When mapping out my journey as an international student and beyond, let’s just say a global pandemic was not on the list. A...

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Resilience in a pandemic

Hello, I am Valessa Goncalves an international student from Brazil in my final year of Business Administration-Management con...

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What I am grateful for in the time of Covid

May 6, 2020

Things I am grateful for in my COVID-19 time work life:

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Jada Herbert's Blog

Hi everyone, this is my first time in Canada and I’m loving it. The people here are extremely friendly making it easier to ...

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Kirsty Lock's Blog

Pacific Alliance Program in Peru - In January 2020, I had the great privilege of participating in a project ...

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Charlene Marshall's Blog

Pacific Alliance Project in Peru - One of my long-term professional development goals has been to gain a bet...

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Jenny McLean's Blog

Pacific Alliance Project in Peru - Views from Peru: anuary 24th through February 1st NSCC and BCIT travelled...

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Sharda Joseph's Blog

Hello, my name is Sharda Joseph an international exchange student here at NSCC Akerley Campus from the T.A Marryshow Communit...

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Alejandra Garcia's Blog

Be an international student in Nova Scotia has been one of the most incredible experiences I’ve ever had, it was scary, but...

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Avion Primus's Blog

Nova Scotia, a beautiful province with an evening skyline that paints a breathtaking sunset. With rich hues of red blended wi...

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Krista Taverner's Blog

Kenya Education for Employment Project 7 - As a female engineer, I feel very grateful to have participated i...

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NSCC wins new project in Grenada

New Coastal and Water Management project with TA Marryshow Community College in Grenada and the Marine Institute of N...

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Alley Nguyen's Blog

Hi, my name is Alley Nguyen I am from Vietnam, and I am currently studying in my first year of the business administration pr...

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Felipe Lenz's Blog

My name is Felipe Lenz Almeida, I am from Brazil and I am an International Student Ambassador. Some adjectives that I would u...

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Jizell Dionisio's Blog

My journey here in Nova Scotia has been an amazing and at the same time, a challenging experience, because of many things tha...

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Sharon Li's Blog

Hi, my name is Jiajia Li, I come from China, and I took Business Tourism at NSCC Akerley Campus. I arrived in Halifax at July...

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NSCC International Impact Award Winners 2019

2019 NSCC International Impact Awards Winners

On Friday...

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Erin Moore's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - As I write this blog post, my three NSCC students are huddled i...

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Ben Pincock's Blog

Solar Innovations Project in Tanzania - As we began our descent into Tanzania our captain informed us that w...

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Jean-Marc Samson's Blog

Solar Innovations Project in Tanzania - Before I start, I just need to make it clear that anything I write d...

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Susan Campbell's Blog

Solar Innovations Project in Tanzania - Asante Sana! I’m sitting in K...

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Cynthia Rogers' Blog

Solar Innovations Project in Tanzania - My inspiration comes from a favourite song written by the iconic Can...

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Fay Patey's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer Program in the Netherlands - The opportunity to attend  the summer school p...

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Katherine Gutscher's Blog

Doing Business in Europe Summer Program in the Netherlands - While reflecting back on the time I was in the ...

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Leah Salsman's Blog

Social Work Summer School in Austria - One missed flight turned into over 24 hours of travelling, but we eve...

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Angela Eisner's Blog

Social Services Summer School in Austria - To applying for grants, summer jobs, and traveling internationa...

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Jordain Murphy's Blog

Social Work Summer School in Austria - The past week and a half in Linz, Austria has been incredible. I have...

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Amanda Marshall's Blog

ISTEP 10 Project in Tanzania - It is strange to me that I am not long back in Halifax after working at and v...

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Benjamin Edwards' Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - One of the most memorable experiences I’ve lived wouldn’t h...

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Elyse Whitman's Blog

Social Entrepreneurship Project in Vietnam - I came to Vietnam to expand my comfort zone. Having never trave...

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Kate Sunabacka's Blog

Women in Entrepreneurship Project in Peru - It’s a challenge to give justice to this overall experience, e...

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Robert Burrow's Blog

Women in Entrepreneurship Project in Peru - My time in Peru was most definitely one of the best times of my ...

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Tanya O'Rielly's Blog

Faculty Field School in Tanzania - The journey to get to Africa can be trying physically, but the energy and...

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Rashida Symonds' Blog

Faculty Field School in Tanzania - Connecting with Culture and Purpose

Oral History Project in Tanzania - In the months leading up to our trip to Tanzania, our group would meet we...

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Melissa Randell's Blog

Oral History Project in Tanzania - Oral history is a field of study that involves communicating with an inte...

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Romic Isaac's Blog

Oral History Project in Tanzania - I am Romic Isaac, an international student from Grenada. I am an ambitiou...

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Dalton Cain's Blog

Oral History Project in Tanzania - Home for me is Canada. My family, kids and friends are in Canada, and it ...

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Roger Haynes' Blog

IT Solutions Project in Tanzania - The first site of the IT Solutions in Rural Tanzania project was a vocati...

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Ronan O'Driscoll's Blog

IT Solutions Project in Tanzania - What a learning adventure my time in Tanzania with NSCC International has...

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Kayla Cassidy's Blog

Happiness Project in Tanzania - One thing that really hit me in Tanzania is how much person-to-person connec...

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Shari Mallory's Blog

Happiness Project in Tanzania - Karibu! Welcome!  Entrepreneurship is the focus of the Happiness Project ...

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Kristen Hunter's Blog

International Tourism in Spain - May 8, 2019

Today was ...

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Chris Palmer's Blog

International Tourism in Spain - May 3, 2019

Having tra...

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Sarah Ryter's Blog

International Tourism in Spain - April 30, 2019

Today w...

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Brandi Walsh's Blog

International Tourism in Spain - May 6, 2019

Today we f...

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Chloe MacDonald's Blog

International Tourism in Spain - May 4, 2019

Hola! Toda...

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Wendi Dewey's Blog

International Tourism in Spain - Monday, April 29th - Departure day!