The Adventures of Emily Cowser

How does one begin to summarize a semester-long study abroad experience in one blog post?  I am not sure, but I will attempt to offer some brief reflections on my semester. This fall, I had the opportunity to study abroad in Jordan with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities' Middle East Studies Program (MESP).  This was a long-awaited adventure.  I learned about MESP in high school and likely spent hundreds of hours over the past few years coordinating my participation in the program (which was quite complex due to a double major and my plans to study abroad in Uganda for a semester as well).  This was further complicated by COVID; I decided to take a gap year upon the cancellation of both of my study abroad programs.  I ended up switching the order of my semesters in late July - just a few weeks before I was scheduled to head to Uganda - because of the Uganda program's decision to not offer semester-long homestays for the fall.  At the end of...