My freshman year I went to a presentation about studying
abroad in college. After sitting through the presentation I decided that I
wanted to study abroad at some point in my college career, but I wasn't exactly
sure when I was going to be able to fit that into my busy and rigorous
schedule. I was told about an opportunity to study abroad over Christmas break
and as soon as the last sentence left Professor
Pederson’s lips I was hooked. I had never been to Puerto Rico before so I was
very intrigued to visit and study the culture of this island. I have traveled my whole life
but this trip was the first time that I would be traveling for the purpose of
learning and studying a different culture.
A couple weeks before we left for Puerto Rico I got to meet
the group of students that I would be taking on this cultural inversion
experience with. We all met up in Fort Worth and on a extremely smaller scale
got dip our feet into studying tourism like we would be doing in Puerto Rico.
In Fort Worth my classmates and I clicked automatically as if we had all been
friends our entire lives. Together we got to visit the Fort Worth Stockyards,
study the transportation, accommodations, attractions and the food that
travelers from all over the world visit Fort Worth for. This experience allowed
me to no longer hesitate or be nervous about the study abroad trip that I was
about to embark on. I was now excited to be able to study and learn about tourism and travel writing in Puerto Rico with these intelligent and kind
individuals.
Saying Boomer Sooner all the way from Texas while studying tourism in Fort Worth.
Links:
http://www.fortworthstockyards.org/
http://www.ou.edu/cis/education_abroad.html
https://www.fortworth.com/the-herd/
Contact Information:
Email: Heather.a.ricchi10@ou.edu
Phone: 214-551-2715
Twitter: @heatherricchi4
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