I am so excited for my upcoming trip to Europe this Summer, so here's a couple of 'flash-back' posts about my Study Abroad trip last year to Hawaii with TCC!
Some of y'all know that last Summer, I was in Hawaii for two weeks. It truly is a tropical paradise. Although, my experience was more of hell in paradise. 😅 But first before I get into that, let me explain the program and how I ended up attending!
The year before, so March 2014, during my first semester in college, I saw a poster at my campus about a trip to Hawaii. Now a lot of people see things like that and think I don't want to have to be studying while I'm traveling or maybe they would, but do not have the follow through. So I googled everything I could about the program and was disappointed at how little information came up. Lucky, I was able to find an email address and quickly sent off a message to them.
If I remember correctly, I got a reply back around that September from one of the teacher on the program and with-in the next month, I had put down a deposit and was figuring out what the trip would entail. Now it was a bit of a back and forth process, because there was a mix up regarding my credit count for that semester. Meaning it counted a wintermester course (which naturally ended over a week before the spring semester started) and because of that it wouldn't let me register for both class as the total ended up around 21 credits. Even though it looks like a lot, again 3 credits were the minimester, 3 were for the first 8 weeks and then 8 were for the second 8 weeks.
Basically, it was a full semester worth of credit (12 hours), packed in-to approximately three weeks. We had pre-trip classes starting the following March and they were on Sundays every week until May. Then we had classes every Saturday and Sunday. Me, being the weirdo, I am, wanted to pack as much school work in as possible (now granted, I had no idea that the classes in May would be 7 hours long! Yep, that's right, we talked about Geology for a total of fourteen hours on the weekend.) I decided that that spring semester I would take 18 hours and then the maymester. That meant, in May for about two weeks I had classes 7 days a week. 😁 I survived somehow...
The program was three different science classes: Botany, Geology, and Environmental Biology. Sounds like a lot, and well you would be right, it was a lot. But that also meant that I got to learn a lot and see tons of stuff in Hawaii, that the normal tourist would not get to. Lucky, I made a good friend during the classes, so we kind of partnered up during the two weeks in Hawaii. Best thing that came out of the trip!
I'll post more about my Hawaiian adventures! (All of these photos are from the Big Island [Hawaii Island]).
XOXO,
Suzanne Marie
No comments:
Post a Comment