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Congratulations UCI International Photo Competition Winners!

Photo Contest Winners

Photo Contest Winners

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Jeff Lee, ’13 Rome, Italy
1st Place Alumni Category: COVID-19

gargoyle

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Clair Mansour, ’17, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France
1st Place UCI Alumni Category: Culture

umbrellas

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Dordaneh Ashouriha, ’18, Venice, Italy
1st Place Alumni Category: Daily Life

sahara desert

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Jose Ramos, ’14, Sahara Desert, Morocco
1st Place Alumni Category: People

School Trip by Clair Mansour

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Clair Mansour, ’17, Museum D’Orsay, Paris, France
1st Place Alumni Category: World is a Classroom

Jam on the Roof by Eduard Gavril

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Eduard Gavril, ’20, UCI, Irvine, CA
1st Place Students Category: COVID-19

Donut Shop by Yingxuan Ma

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Yingxuan Ma, ’23, Newport Beach, CA
1st Place: Students Category: Culture

Good Vibes by Yingxuan Ma

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Yingxuan Ma, ’23, Newport Beach, CA
1st Place Students Category: Daily Life

Empty Central Station by Franchesca Leung

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Franchesca Leung, '21, Central Station in Sydney, Australia
1st Place Student Study Abroad Category: COVID-19

Apartheid by Helay Liang

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Helay Liang, ’20, Cape Town, South Africa
1st Place Students Study Abroad Category: Culture

Daily Line by Khoa Tran

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Khoa Tran, ’22, Shinjuku Japan
1st Place Students Study Abroad Category: Daily Life

when it rains in Saigon by Khanh Nguyen

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Khanh Nguyen, ’23, Saigon, Vietnam
1st Place Students Study Abroad Category: People

Through the Looking Glass by Claire Chaisson

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Claire Chaisson, ’20, Titlis, Switzerland
1st Place Students Study Abroad Category: World is a Classroom

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Anteaters! Tag us in your photos abroad to be featured, @uciabroad! 🌍🐜✈️
Link to Zoom Dialogue (5/7) below!

⚠️ Have you thought about studying abroad, but

⚠️ Have you thought about studying abroad, but don’t know how to explain it to your parents ⁉️

Have them join our info session this FRIDAY at 4:00 pm! ✈️

Link to register in bio! 🔝

Congratulations to the winners of our first UCI In

Congratulations to the winners of our first UCI International Photo Competition. The Office of Global Engagement, the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and the Study Abroad Center are honored to share with you the inspiring winning photographs. Check them out at the link in our bio! ✨✈️🌍

Meet Derek Feng, one of your Study Abroad Center P

Meet Derek Feng, one of your Study Abroad Center Peer Advisors this year! He’s a Computer Science major who studied abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland for a semester during his junior year, and attended the University of Edinburgh!
“I had planned a day trip where I got to visit a place called the Giant's Causeway, featured on those rotating Windows 10 lock screen backgrounds. I vividly remembered seeing it (cause it was so cool!!) pop up on my laptop back in high school, and thought "Wow, I don't know where this is but it'd be really cool if I saw this in person one day." And when that day came—much sooner than I expected—it felt like a dream. I spent hours walking through what felt like scenes from a picturesque fairy tale. It was so cool learning about a mythical Scottish giant, being at Game of Thrones filming locations, and marveling at the natural beauty of Northern Ireland's coastline!” Derek has also been attending the Queer & Asian meetings this year, and was involved in MAISS for two years prior to going abroad!

Meet Laura Viarengo, one of your Study Abroad Cent

Meet Laura Viarengo, one of your Study Abroad Center Peer Advisors this year! She is a Business Administration major who studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester!
Laura’s favorite memory from studying abroad was “One month into the semester we were given a key to the roof of our apartment complex and found out we had a huge rooftop terrace with a 360 degree view of Barcelona and the Sagrada Familia! 11/10 the best place for watching the sunset!! ”

Hope you all have a great Memorial Day today🤗We

Hope you all have a great Memorial Day today🤗We at the Study Abroad Center are enjoying helping and answering all of the questions you have about studying abroad via our Virtual Advising! If you know anyone who has questions about studying abroad, tell them to schedule an appointment on our website!💬
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Now it’s time for another Meet Us Monday☀️Meet Bonnie Hooes! Bonnie is the advisor for programs in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East! She studied abroad in Florence, Italy in 1998, and this is a photo of Bonnie with her family in Quito, Ecuador (2019) at an elevation of 13,000 feet!🌄
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“I’m a first generation American who had never traveled without my parents before studying abroad. It was the first time walking through LAX on my own, first time boarding an airplane on my own, and first time maneuvering around a foreign land, in a foreign language, on my own. But, then, something magical happened the week before leaving Italy. An American family approached me, trying to use their broken Italian, to ask me for directions. They thought I was Italian! My confidence and level of independence skyrocketed during those months in Italy!”
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One of Bonnie’s favorite memories from studying abroad was that she was there during the 1998 soccer World Cup where Italy made it to the quarterfinals. She said she will never forget the passion for soccer that she felt in every café, every shop, every home, and even in classes!⚽️🏆

Hello everyone! We have loved seeing you all durin

Hello everyone! We have loved seeing you all during virtual advising, and we hope to see more of you! If you have any study abroad related questions, you can make an appointment on our website!📚
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Now it’s time for another Meet Us Monday✨Meet Ambyr Evans, one of your Study Abroad Center Peer Advisors this year! She is an International Studies major and Business Management minor who studied abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea for a year!
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Her favorite memories of Korea were seeing cherry blossoms in person, going to cafes and scenic spots, rail-biking through nature, and when her friends from her internship surprised her for her 21st birthday with a cake! “I’m a first generation college student so I feel so blessed and grateful to have been able to go to college, and to go abroad on top of that! I remember back in high school my Spanish teacher had always emphasized how important study abroad was. She told us to go for a year if we ever had the chance, and I took what she said to heart. The study abroad center was great because even though this was all so new to me, I felt like I had a lot of support going through the process.”
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Ambyr was also part of UCI’s INSA Dance Team before studying abroad.

It’s been great seeing you all during virtual ad

It’s been great seeing you all during virtual advising! Just a reminder, for any of you who need advising regarding study abroad, you can book an appointment with us on our website!
Now, guess what day it is! It’s the beginning of the week and here we are with another Meet Us Monday🥳
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This week we would like you to meet Jenny Hong! Jenny is the Operations manager at the Study Abroad Center! Although she did not study abroad during undergraduate, she traveled to various countries with missions organizations and relief programs throughout college!
A memory she has of traveling was 2 years ago, she experienced a 6.7 earthquake while hiking through the Fushimi Inari Gates in Japan😱
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Jenny says, “I love working behind the scenes to make the study abroad process smooth and seamless! I started working right after graduating and had many different experiences. After working for a fast-paced start up firm for 6 years, I had time to reflect on what matters and what I am truly passionate about. Reflecting made we realize I am meant to be in an international field impacting cross-border collaboration whatever that looked like. I’m grateful for my position at the SAC behind the scenes to help achieve these collaborations in a small way!”✨

Good afternoon everyone! Did you know we’re doin

Good afternoon everyone! Did you know we’re doing online advising in place of our regular walk-ins? Because we are! If you have questions regarding going abroad, need help getting started, picking a program or anything in between, we’re here for you! Check out our website studyabroad@uci.edu for more information!
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Next up, it’s Meet Us Monday!☀️ Meet Irene Morales, another one of your Peer Advisors at the center this year! Irene double majors in Education Sciences and Criminology, Law, and Society. She studied abroad in Rome, Italy her Fall Semester 2018 as a sophomore!
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“I'll never forget my first day of volunteering as an English Teaching Assistant at a local Italian middle school, when all of my new students were eagerly getting to know me. When they asked me if I liked pineapple on pizza and I answered yes, the classroom went wild! I quickly learned how much true Italians disapprove of the "American" way of eating pizza.”
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Irene is also a mentor for the School of Social Sciences First Generation First Quarter Challenge, a teaching Intern for Global Connect @ UCI, a SAGE Scholar, and a member of Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity!
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See you all next week with another staff feature!

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