This week’s blog comes from Christopher Davis, University of Arkansas student studying abroad with API in Valparaiso, Chile. He’s been blogging in English, Spanish and Portuguese! Today’s entry is in Spanish; if you’d like to read this blog in English, click here. Enjoy!
I have been talking about studying abroad my whole life; it is something I have always dreamed of. It seems like yesterday I was six years old listening to the stories of my mom studying abroad in London, England. After two of my cousins studied abroad in Spain, I knew that is where I was going.
Flying to Spain was my first experience traveling internationally, and my flight was 6 hours with a 50-minute connection! Yes, you heard that correctly: a 50-minute connection! It was just as terrifying as it sounds.
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This story, from the jump, gets a huge shout out to my host mother who always always always encouraged me to go out and explore the city (“para conocer” (so that I can get to know it more) so I wouldn’t regret not having gone out at the end of my stay.
By midafternoon, Szczecin welcomed me with the faint smell of fish from the city seaport.
