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STUDENT UFE 11 Catching up with Carroll students and faculty... What did you do this summer? Ashley Stevick, senior psychology major “I traveled to India with Dr. Joy Holloway and other Carroll students. Our intent wa sto learn eastern practices. Traveling makes you realize that people of the world are more alike than different. You come home with a sense of inter connectedness with the rest of the world.” Marieke Min, sophomore “I was born in Oisterwijk, Holland so it is a family tradi tion to take a trip back in the summer to see family. It is also nice to see the castles, old cathedrals, sites and people.” Kate Phipps, senior psychology major “I also traveled to India with Dr. Holloway. I enjoyed watching the people there devote a whole day to prayer and spirituality. The people there are happy with no material possessions. This made me realize that worrying about the small materialistic things does not matter when there are bigger problems and issues that people face in their lives.” c n a) 3 3 o C3 c c < >> -Q O ■—• 4 O - C CL Chris Lambert, senior political science major “This summer I went out to Seattle for a week to attend my sister’s high school graduation. My brother lives out there so I also got to see him and do some sight seeing. I also went on a river float trip in Idaho.” Dr. Cheryl Conover, professor of literature “I went to central and eastern Australia with 16 other teachers from around the country on a Fulbright grant given through the department of education. We spent a month over there because we are encouraged to gain interna tional knowledge. I am still in awe and trying to figure out what all I learned and how it has changed me. It really gave me a new perspective of our own coun try too. I will teach a course next semester on Australian literature.” Study abroad experience ends with London bombings by Ann Goldes Intern Writer What some people might not see in their lifetime, Laurel Cifala experienced in eight weeks this past summer. The junior commu nications and public relations major and business minor studied abroad in Italy this summer through Gonzaga University’s Gonzaga-in-Florence program. “It was amazing. I had the absolute time of my life,” says * Cifala. Cifala decided to spend the summer abroad early last semester. “My family is Italian, and I was really interested in Gonzaga’s Florence program when I visited Gonzaga my senior year, so I guess everything just fell togeth er,” she explained. Gonzaga offers a summer pro gram and a year long program with its school in Florence, Italy. Classes are taught in English but have Italian influences. Cifala took Italian Literature and Film and Italian Conversation at the school and corresponded with communications professor Rick Moritz for an independent Intercultural Communications class. However, -it was not the classes that made the trip memorable to THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005 Cifala and the other 107 students from Gonzaga and other schools. “We lived in Florence, but class es ran Monday through Thursday leaving afternoons and four day weekends for us to travel,” explained Cifala. And travel they did. The group’s first week was touring Rome and the Vatican. The Colleseum, Trevi Fountain and Spanish Steps highlighted the first couple of days, but it was the Vatican that left Cifala awestruck. “I’ll look at pictures and it still hits me, ‘Wow, I was there. I stood in the Sistine Chapel and walked through St. Peter’s Chapel.’” The group tried to make Pope Benedict XVI’s Sunday mass in St. Peter’s, but the seats were already reserved. Instead they stood in St. Peter’s Square and watched the mass on screens. At the end of mass, Cifala said, the pope came out and blessed the crowd. Rome was only the first of sev eral excursions through Italy that Cifala and others took. Venice, Pisa, the Cinque Terre, and Amalfi Coast were a handful of the places that they traveled to. “Our trip to Pompeii, Sorrento and Capri on the Amalfi Coast was one of my favorites. We went into the Blue Grotto, one of the seven wonders of the world, in Capri. It was incredible,” she says. The rest of Cifala’s trip with Gonzaga was spent in Munich, Germany; Nice, France; Athens, Greece; and Prague, Czech Republic. “Each city was so unique and interesting. I couldn’t possibly pick a favorite,” she says. After the Gonzaga program ended, Cifala flew to London to meet (twin!) Malia Souza, a junior nursing major here at Carroll. Souza was spending the summer doing an internship at a United States Air Force Base north of Cambridge, England. Cifala, Souza and third friend traveled to Ireland for a couple days before coming back to England. Cifala was on her way to the air port to fly home the morning of July 7, the day of the terrorist bombings in London. She was at King’s Cross station in the London Underground when the first train was bombed. “At first we heard that it was just a power surge. It wasn’t until I got into the street that I realized something was very wrong,” she says. “I was all alone with two enormous suitcases. That was when I started to get scared.” Laurei Cifala in London with . Big Ben in thè background. Cifala said she got on a bus, to try to get out of the chaos, but police made people get off the buses when a nearby bus was bombed. She was eventually able to take a cab to the London Heathrow International Airport and just barely made her flight home. “Someone was watching my back that morning. I just wish my trip hadn’t ended on that note,” Cifala said. What was the best part about the whole trip? “The wine and the food,” says Cifala. “And of course the dis- coteques!” VOLUME 89, NO. 1
