Capilano University Students Blogging Abroad

Well we’re already halfway through the semester, and time is only moving faster and faster everyday. There’s so much I still have to see in Switzerland before I can leave this beautiful country. I’ve been lucky enough to visit Zurich, Bern, Basel and Lucerne and that doesn’t even include the cities farther South from Olten that I still have to visit. My favorite trip so far within Switzerland has been visiting the Matterhorn and the town of Zermatt. I’ve heard so much about the ginormous mountain but it still was unbelievable seeing it in person. I also won’t forget how cold it was at the top! For some reason I made the smart decision to wear a skirt to journey to the top, lesson learned. The weather has been unreal, 20 degrees in April and I’m already wearing shorts. Spending our lunch breaks sitting by the river is a nice break from the long days in class. It’s been awesome living with all the exchange students. There’s always someone to hang out with or someone whose i...

  I continue to be astounded by the amount of amazing opportunities that I’ve been able to have while studying abroad here in Vienna, Austria. The last month has been filled with amazing trips and memories, and I know it’s only going to get better from here. So far, I have been to Bratislava, Salzburg, Prague, Innsbruck, and Verona. Next up, Amsterdam, Scotland, Croatia, and hopefully a day trip to Hallstatt. The summer months are approaching and I can already tell that spending the summer in Vienna is going to be gorgeous. I feel so extremely blessed to be having this experience and sometimes, must stop and remind myself of how amazing a single moment can be. This experience has definitely opened my eyes to what this wonderful world has to offer and everything that we have to be grateful for.   I’ve gained a greater appreciation for time, different cultures, friends, family, and much more. Although I often think of Vancouver and how I would love to be back in my bea...

Walt Disney once quoted “If you can dream it, you can do it”. This quote has been my words to live by since I started the application process for the Disney International Program in October 2012. Here we are two years later, and I still find that quote inspirational in everything I do.  Working for the Walt Disney Company is an experience like no other. I love watching the behind the scenes work that make magic happen everyday. I’ve been working in Outdoor Foods in the Magic Kingdom. This job wasn’t my first choice, but it has been a learning experience. I’ve learned to find the positive aspects with a job I really didn’t enjoy at first. Now I love going to work, I’ve made friends at work and I love creating magic, and watching magic being created!  I’ve made friends from all over the world. At first I was intimidated to come to Disney not knowing anyone, but I created a family here. I don’t know what I would do without my friends here, they keep m...

Allow me to start my second blog by saying that I just returned from picking fresh mangos. Not at a farm, but from the trees that are right outside my dorm. How cool is that? I have grown a lot over the past few months, a whole inch and a half. Not in height, but girth. I think it is from all the affordable beer. Fun fact! TsingTao beer imports their barley from Canada! Cheers. I might be drinking one right now…   I want to write about the American Dream. I feel we share this with our neighbors to the south. We have everything on the West Coast of Canada. The ocean. The mountains. Snow in the winter. Beach weather in the summer. We have career opportunities. We have a government that fears its people and not a society that fears its government. We have education that is available to every single one of us if we want it.   We have craft breweries that make killer IPAs (shout out to Jason, Kevin, and Gary at Driftwood Brewery.) And that is where the dream part comes in...

Hey there Capilano, Megan here checking in from Vienna! Trying to sum up my study abroad so far seems nearly impossible as so much has happened, I will try my best to give you a rough overview though. The experience thus far has been amazing, fun, scary, life changing, thrilling, and the list goes on and on. I believe that studying abroad is one of the best opportunities you can take in your lifetime, so for any of you who are on the fence, hop off the fence and make it happen, you won’t regret it! Living in Vienna has been a very eye opening experience for many reasons, the people and customs are very different here then at home. An example which seams silly but is actually super hard to get used to is there store hours; they are very short and don’t exist on Sundays. The idea of being able to pick up anything you need at any time is not the case here. Adapting to their way of life is kind of fun though, I realized that there’s nothing wrong with a lazy Sunday every o...