So far, the best part of my study abroad experience has been the emphasis my program places on international students going out together and exploring the areas surrounding Linz. In the last two weeks I’ve been on two different excursions planned by the international office at Johannes Kepler University. At the end of my first week here I had the opportunity to go with about 60 other students to Mauthausen…
I have been in Vienna, Austria since January 13th. Vienna is a beautiful city with so much history. The best thing about Vienna is how it is so centrally located in Europe, this makes it very easy to travel on the weekends. Vienna is quite literally the center of Europe and connects Western and Eastern Europe. This has given me the opportunity to visit several other European cities in a…
Over Spring Break, my cousin and I decided to leave Paris and go to Vienna. I have always wanted to go because I have seen all the beautiful photos of Austria and I wanted to experience it for myself. The first day we decided to go to the The Hofburg Palace and learned about the family that once ruled over Austria. The museum was based around the Empress Elisabeth of…
Hello! My name is Emily Chafin. I am a Sophomore Data Science major / Mathematics minor at the College. For the Spring 2020 semester I will be studying at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. I chose JKU after looking at many options the College offers and narrowing down my academic goals for the semester. I chose to study German as my foreign language at CofC, and I wanted to…
*Written previously* Hi! My name is Lulu Mackenzie and I am a junior at College of Charleston. I am a Hospitality and Tourism Management major with a Business Language in French minor. I am originally from Boston, Massachusetts, and my time so far at The College has been amazing! This spring, I will be studying abroad in Innsbruck, Austria at the Management Center Innsbruck. I will be taking several…
My time in Linz was too brief, but I made the most of what I got. I made many international friends and experienced a taste of education in Austria, all while seeing this part of the world for the very first time. I did not expect when I started this semester that the coronavirus would become a global pandemic. Witnessing Austrian crisis-response was certainly not an experience I wanted to…
