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Field Notes, Fiji, Postcard

Postcard: River kayaking, village homestay and Bounty Island leisure highlight Fiji program

July 25, 2012

Julie Allan, AUIP’s Program and Marketing Coordinator, writes: I recently returned from spending two weeks in Fiji accompanying students and faculty from Texas A&M University and Pennsylvania State University on AUIP’s Fiji Sustainability Program. My favorite experience during my fourteen-day stay in Fiji was a day spent with Rivers Fijikayaking on the Wainikoroiluva River in inflatable kayaks. We started the…

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Antarctica, Postcard, Snapshot

Snapshot: Capturing the moment – Antarctica in pictures

February 20, 2012

Students went to the extreme taking in views of amazing ice peaks, gorgeous skies and majestic wildlife – while learning firsthand about one of the most remote and fragile regions in the globe just weeks ago. Students and staff on AUIP’s Antarctica study abroad program caught snapshots while they played with penguins and watched magnificent humpback, minke and orca whales….

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Postcard: East African safari adventures

November 4, 2011

AUIP’s Managing Director, Laura Sessions, wrote in her last blog about her visit to the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Gorillas are the main reason most tourists visit Rwanda, but Laura found the country has so much more to offer. After the horrific genocide of 1994, which led to the deaths of about 800,000 people over the course of just ten…

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Postcard: Visiting Rwanda’s gorillas in the mist

October 26, 2011

AUIP’s Managing Director, Laura Sessions, recently spent six weeks exploring the cultures and wildlife of East Africa, and the highlight of the trip was the chance to see wild mountain gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park, northern Rwanda. There are only about 800 mountain gorillas left in the world, and about one-third of these live in the Virunga Mountains of…

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2011-12 Interns, Australia: South Queensland, Postcard

Student Perspective: Kasha reminisces about her time on an Australian Farm

October 13, 2011

Kasha Patel, the Deacons Abroad marketing intern, writes about her experience on a farm stay in South Queensland: One of the memories I cherish the most from my study abroad experience in Australia is my farm stay in Dalby. One other girl, Adrienne, and I stayed with a 65 year old lady named Shirley who lived on a cattle farm….

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New Zealand, Postcard, The Fact Files

Postcard: Unexpected encounter with the Muriwai Gannet Colony

October 12, 2011

On a recent trip to Auckland, AUIP’s Sheena visited the West Coast beach of Muriwai. Muriwai is approximately 45 minutes north-west of Auckland city centre but it feels like a different world. It is a 60km beach with rolling black sand dunes and a roaring surf which has keen surfers dotting the water.  The real treat though wasn’t the dramatic…

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Postcard: Sara’s trip to Melbourne

September 8, 2011

Sara Teear from the AUIP office has recently returned from a holiday with her husband in Melbourne, Australia, she writes: When our friends invited us to their wedding in Melbourne we immediately said that we would attend and then got stuck into planning our trip! During the week we visited numerous Melbourne icons, such as Federation Square, Lygon Street for…

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