Yazmin克鲁兹 |西班牙塞维利亚
Yazmin克鲁兹, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, shares her experience studying abroad in 塞维利亚, 西班牙. Once she found 塞维利亚, she knew it would be part of her journey and growth as a student. 的朋友, 远足, and memories made her study experience all the more impactful and encouraged her to continue traveling! "Because it's those experiences that I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on, 不仅如此, but the independence and self-growth that I earned from this experience, 我对自己的信心, is something I wouldn't trade for the world."
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I think whenever you're looking to live in a space, you're looking for light and in a special way that brought me a light that was missing in my life, and so that's how I decided to go with 塞维利亚.
我叫Yazmin克鲁兹, I study at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with a double major in Spanish and Education, 辅修ESL, 我在塞维利亚留学, 西班牙
和英国伦敦. When it came to studying abroad, it was that, it was that I didn't see anybody who looked like me. So I was like, "Whoa, is it possible for me to do this?"
比如，这个梦会一直是梦吗? Attending college was my first dream, I would say,
and studying abroad was that second dream that
我不确定，这是不可能的. But after investigating and just mentally accepting the fact and to know that it was something that was for me and aligned in my journey, and I think all those things sort of joined together to my parents to understand that this was something that I was going to do and that I needed to do for myself.
但当我到了塞维利亚, 我记得我去加的斯的第一周, 哪个是塞维利亚附近的一个小镇. And then from there, I think it was just, it was over. I was going to a bunch of cities in 塞维利亚 and along with that I visited 马德里, 巴塞罗那, 瓦伦西亚, 格拉纳达,
还有西班牙的一些城市.
所以在这个项目中, they had a few activities where you can kind of meet people in the program, whether it's a rooftop ceremony or just an open discussion. 所以我学会了，
I met my friends through those activities along with my classes at CEA CAPA.
Each way, you're learning and meeting new people, whether it's in the States or in 塞维利亚.
我就是这么想的, you begin to create your team and your community In the Sahara, it was my 21st birthday and it's our first night in the desert and my friends had a little cake for me. We had the drums playing, the stars were covering the sky. 我想就在那一刻, 我感受到了满满的爱, 不只是在我生日那天, but just overall in the space of of how connection can be
真正无处不在. It's not just in your hometown or what you're used to. 你知道, you can have those friendships and connections even though you just met them three months ago. Being part CEA CAPA, not just the programs, but they're
校友大使团队非常出色. I went back to my old high school and talked about study abroad and and there I'm like, okay, I'm taking the role that I wish I would have had.
So it was this big moment of reflection just to realize that I could be inspiring somebody or just planted a seed of this is possible because it's those experiences that I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on. 不仅如此, but the self-growth and independence that I earn from this experience, 我对自己的信心 is something I wouldn't trade for the world.
I can share that after 西班牙 I knew I wanted to come back. So now post-graduation, my hope is to go back to 塞维利亚 to earn my master's. And so now I reflect on that and I think I would have never thought that was possible without studying abroad, because study abroad taught me that there are different opportunities international. Ways that you can continue growing and not just for yourself, but for your education and your career.
