Adulting after Study Abroad

My experience while abroad will not only be a gem on my resume but lead to my vocational development in a few ways:

• Bilingual 
• Volunteering over 70 hours in Puebla, Mexico
• Experience with traveling in a foreign country
• Living with a host family for 5 months
• Learning basic Portuguese 
• Completing a senior study based on firsthand research in another country

When I join the adult world (though is scares me to think about it) study abroad will have prepared me for:

• Applying to Peace Corps
• Grad School interviews 
• Jobs requiring bilingual ability
• Being a packing genius 
• Interaction with culturally diverse people 

Life skills that I don't know how I've made it this far without:

• Making Mexican rice from scratch
• Memorizing the recipe for tamales 
• All the Mexican bad words
• Big city life
• Pronouncing Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, the two volcanoes visible from Puebla, Mexico