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Tuesday, May 6th, 2025

Graney- A Weekend in Fiji

As my incredible study abroad experience comes to a close, I was incredibly excited for one last major event: traveling to Fiji. While I have been abroad and have visited so many different places, it is crazy for me to realize that I have done all of this travel within only two countries to this point. This all changed over the weekend. After a 4:30 am alarm, Sienna and I were off to the Auckland airport by 5 to ensure we would be at our gate with plenty of time to spare. Once we got there, I was able to […]

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Thursday, May 1st, 2025

Graney- Week 6 in New Zealand

Hi mom (and anyone else who is reading). I promised to continue to write blogs for my final two weekends abroad and so here I am. They should both be good if I do say so myself and at the very least, will have different pictures with the places I’m traveling to. Wednesday night, I fund myself struggling to fall asleep due to my excitement to go back to Queenstown, the place that really made me want to come to Auckland for my internship. After doing a few quick tasks remotely in the morning, I went to the airport and […]

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Monday, April 21st, 2025

Graney- Week 5 in New Zealand

I cannot believe that this is the final week of required blogs for this amazing semester abroad. As I have done after returning home from Dublin last summer, I am certain that I will be revisiting these blogs occasionally to reminisce on all of the memories that I made over these four months. My fifth week in Auckland was somewhat underwhelming by the standards of every other week I have spent abroad, but I feel that this is a major testament to how well I optimized my free weekends during this semester. The workweek was relatively normal as I continued […]

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Monday, April 14th, 2025

Graney- Week 4 in New Zealand

I cannot believe that I am at the halfway point of my time in New Zealand already. In the past 4 weeks I feel as though I have done so much yet I still have many of my most anticipated things still yet to come. This week added to my surprise of how time has been passing here as it feels as though I just sat down to write my last blog. The week itself was pretty similar to what I have become used to, though I was very productive and covered a large array of responsibilities. These ranged from […]

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Monday, April 7th, 2025

Graney- Week 3 in New Zealand

My third week in New Zealand was probably the calmest so far, but still brought me a lot of adventure! During the first few days of the week, I finished my first project in my internship and began to pivot to learning how to copyright blogs with search engine optimized content to increase the amount of people visiting the client’s website. I was introduced to a software platform that helped me understand the terms that Google looks for and feel as though I have a much stronger understanding of digital marketing as a result. Outside of work, I got back […]

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