UofL grad student reflects on how a global pandemic affected her study abroad trip
Editor’s Note: The following is a first-person account from UofL graduate student Cheyenne Hill, who spent Spring Break on a service learning trip in Trinidad and Tobago just as COVID-19 began to proliferate in the U.S. and beyond. Source: UofL News: http://www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltoday/uofl-grad-student-reflects-on-how-a-global-pandemic-affected-her-study-abroad-trip/ By Cheyenne Hill: In this last semester of college, I chose to join the International Service Learning Program on a trip to Trinidad and Tobago led by the College of Education’s Higher Education Administration and College Student Personnel programs. It was an opportunity that I thought I had missed out on during my undergraduate studies. It seemed like the perfect way to spend my spring break: living and learning in a new country, surrounded by peers and the most beautiful scenery imaginable. During the first couple of days, I was hit by an onslaught of “firsts:” My first international trip. My f...
