Art and History in Madrid and Barcelona

Art and History in Madrid and Barcelona Winter Break: February 24-March 4, 2012 Apply today for the Winter Break program in SPAIN!

04/20/2024

This program is on hiatus.

About a mile and a half in the new lighthouse park.
07/15/2023

About a mile and a half in the new lighthouse park.

Two babies!
07/15/2023

Two babies!

06/29/2020

This program is in hiatus

02/28/2017

The future of the Biennial.

This year we are offering Art & History in Barcelona and Madrid for Winter Break! Join us for the two most vibrant citie...
04/24/2016

This year we are offering Art & History in Barcelona and Madrid for Winter Break! Join us for the two most vibrant cities in Spain!!!!!

08/26/2015

From an alum of this program, Krista Burdick: "My advice for students who are thinking about studying abroad is to go for it, especially when you are young. I've never heard anyone say they didn't love their time traveling, and there are only more variables and obstacles as you get older. Sometimes we get so caught up in our day to day lives that we forget how small we are in this giant world. By learning about other people and their language, culture, etc., we can broaden our horizons and reveal another piece of the human puzzle. When you're abroad, you also learn a lot about yourself. You will find yourself in new situations, meeting new people, and the one constant in all of it is you.

I'm not sure if anyone else gets nervous, but there is always a hint of doubt or fear whenever I go abroad. Something that I do to help me through it is think of what the ideal version of myself would do. I want to be like her, so how would she react in this situation? Sure, she might be a little nervous of what lies ahead, but she definitely wouldn't let it prevent her from the adventure.

Another thing that I personally struggle with is saying goodbye. When I leave a new place, even after being there for as brief of a time as a week, I experience this weighted sense of finality. But there's a quote that I love from Winnie the Pooh that I find very applicable: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

I personally went on the Barcelona/Madrid trip with Benita and Dr. Knutson during spring break of 2012, and it fueled my desire to travel. I came home surprised that I felt upset, and I realized it was because I wanted to go back because I knew there was a lot more to see. Since then I have had rain forest adventures in Costa Rica, hiked up Machu Picchu in Peru, and jumped off water falls in Mexico. I graduated from EMU with a major in speech-language pathology and a minor in Spanish, and now I'll be teaching English in Spain for a year before going to graduate school. My dream job is to be a bilingual speech-language pathologist, and that trip abroad helped give me confidence that this is all possible. So take that first trip, you won't regret it!"

08/20/2014

A culture critic who finds comfort in a pen or keyboard for that matter.. This blog will share Sentiments of Faith walking. Encounters with God, notes from sermons, travel logs...and I suppose whatever else I feel like sharing. I'd love to hear your thoughts, I enjoy conversation, encouragement and…

We luv us some Picasso!!!!
06/11/2013

We luv us some Picasso!!!!

Garden maze in Barcelona, Spain
10/28/2011

Garden maze in Barcelona, Spain

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