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Vivian Garcia Is a junior majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Business Administration. In the spring of 2023, she studied abroad in Turin, Italy with the USAC program which allowed her to work on classes that helped her business minor. During the five months abroad, she got to eat amazing food, make wonderful new friends, and explore most of Italy!
 
Vivian’s adventures spirit has led her to see many new countries like Spain, Belgium, Sweden, and France. She is already planning a trip back to Italy to visit the friends she made in her classes abroad and hopes to visit even more countries while there! In Italy she was able to travel through most of the country and saw all the big cities like Rome, Venus, and Milan. She was even able to see her sister get married on a beautiful island off the coast of Sicily.
 
Vivian loves exploring new places and making new friends! In her off time, you can find her trying a new art median, playing video games, or hammocking on the green!
 

Madeline Smith is a senior studying Spanish and psychology. She will graduate in Spring 2025 and looks forward to continuing her education in either a master's or doctoral program. She studied abroad for a month in Salamanca, Spain during the summer of 2023 where she drank lots of coffee, learned lots of Spanish, and made lots of friends.
 
In the future, she hopes to return to Spain to visit other parts of the country and to see her host family again. Additionally, Madeline wants to travel to other Spanish-speaking countries in South and Central America.
 
In her spare time, Madeline loves to read, drink coffee with friends, crochet, and play with her two cats, Violet and Opal.
 

Lily Wachtel is a junior majoring in Public Health concentrating in Global Health Studies. In the Fall semester of 2023, she was able to study abroad through the UAB exchange with the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Australia. At UWA, she spent the semester studying subjects including nutrition in global health, indigenous heritage/knowledge, and literature.

Her most cherished aspect of studying abroad was meeting friends from all over the world.
This experience marked Lily's inaugural venture outside the United States, allowing her to explore countries such as Australia, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. In the future, she hopes to continue to travel while working as a Global Disease Epidemiologist