The Experience of a Lifetime

Many college students have experience moving away, leaving their families, and gaining independence. Even with these freedoms, most of the time mom and dad are only a call away. For exchange and international students, this is another story. These students are experiencing moving away, leaving their families and friends, and are in a new environment all at once. The main difference is mom and dad are not a phone call away.
Exchange and international students are taking a chance by studying in another country to have an experience of a lifetime. These students have to go to class and work like other students, but also have to learn the culture and be apart of a culture different for their own. Caroline Berger and Michaela Gutl are exchange students from Austria and this is a little about their experience studying at in the US at Bellarmine University.
"I have loved having a chance to study in the US, even if I came with pre-judgements of the country, but I have gotten to understand the culture and why and how things happen here. It was hard at first coming here on my own, but I have made great friends and have grown so much. It is a lot of fun here and I have met really great people. I am happy I made the choice to be here, I took a chance and have loved every minute of it," said Gutl.
"Studying in the United States has always been one of my biggest dreams and for me it came true. In the beginning I missed my family and my friends a lot, but I met so many lovely people here at Bellarmine with whom I had the best time of my life! I am so happy that I came here to Louisville, I would have missed out on a lot!" said Berger.
The step may have been harder for them to come to another country to study, but the experience is one in a lifetime.

Bellarmine University has many opportunity to study aboard for more information to go:

http://www.bellarmine.edu/cas/foreignlanguages/studya.asp