Study Abroad
L.I.F.T. Scholars Travel the World Study Abroad and Volunteer
The classroom and text of a college campus teach students challenging academic knowledge, but some of our L.I.F.T. Scholars have taken the opportunity to learn beyond the classroom in far off countries. From learning to adjust to new foods and culture in Thailand, Bali, and South Korea, to learning about independence in China, to touching young lives in Africa, who like L.I.F.T. Scholars are looking for a better tomorrow, to gaining self-esteem studying in Rome and traveling to Barcelona and London on weekends, to embracing your own heritage in Japan, to building with their hands homes and painting schools in Peru, to taking an intense summer academic challenge in Dublin and exploring the wonders of Ireland; the lessons learned change lives.
Their pictures tell the story…
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- Janetta Sykes travels to China as a freshman from Ball State University, Muncie, IN
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- Hiro Bowers in Japan her senior year, studying at Hitotsubashi University from UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
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- Daisy Cortez studying business in China as a junior from CSB University, Collegeville, MN
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- Tatiana Perez studying in Rome, Italy her junior year from UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
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- Angie Vargas in Dublin, Ireland studying physics the summer before her senior year from UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Ingrid Perez from Cal Poly Pomona and Jonathan Madrid from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo spending a Christmas break in Cusco, Peru helping a community in need
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- Leslie Santos exploring Thailand her junior year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
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- Summer 2016, before Leslie Santos’ sophomore year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, she volunteered with the Imagine Foundation at a school in East South Africa
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- Lonnell Schuler as a Chinese major in China and South Korea with classmates from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO during the spring and summer his freshman year
