A boy, ~9 and dressed in a navy suit (a typical uniform, it seems, in Edinburgh,) gestured at me through the iron gate of his schoolyard. Face pressed against the mesh between the slats, he asked if I could toss him a toy (presumably thrown) in the middle of the sidewalk. I picked it up and delivered it over the fence, he thanked me in a perfect, adorable Scottish accent, and...
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study abroad
Pomona Goes to Seoul
Ben Shand, '14 and Economics major, enjoys his first weeks studying abroad in Seoul, South Korea!
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A Sagehen Abroad
So, summer ended suddenly (stop the presses) and the departure of my inaugural-study-abroad flight mysteriously aligned itself with tomorrow’s date. My multi-month repose quietly dissolved into a thousand dirty shirts strewn across my bedroom floor plus a million unnamed files on my desktop and a thick summer reading assignment with what is perhaps a trillion unread-but-hopefu...
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