“This experience offered me the opportunity to meet Deaf people, explore new places and their history, and develop strong relationships with my professors and other students.”
Image Description: Inside a restaurant and group of students is sitting on both sides of a very long table. The students are looking at the camera and smiling.
This study abroad program was an important part of my college experience. It offered me the opportunity to meet Deaf people, explore new places and their history, and develop strong relationships with my professors and other students. With my classmates, we shared our experiences of life in the U.S., school at Gallaudet University, and American culture with the Spanish Deaf people and they did the same for us. This was very important for my degree plan at Gallaudet and my future career because I learned how to approach international students, people, and employees by giving them respect, acceptance, appreciation, and treating them with equality and I learned how to work as a team with my classmates. This experience helped me to increase my academic awareness.
Image Description: A group of six sits on a concrete ledge with the city of Toledo behind them. Professor Pilar Pinar is on the far left and Juan is the third from the right. Everyone is smiling.
My classmates and I went to Toledo to explore their history, religion, and tradition. It was interesting to learn more about those topics. We learned about the history of these topics and I understood why it is good to analyze things like that. I enjoyed trying to uncover the mysteries I encountered. It helped me to increase my skill for analyzing new topics.
Image Description: Juan smiles on the left, next to him is one of his LSE professors, Sete, and then two of his classmates from the Madrid program. All are smiling.