Choosing Global Ed was the best decision I have ever made! Past Review

I did the summer study abroad/ medical internship in Seville with Global Ed. I want to start off by saying that it was such an amazing experience and choosing to go abroad with Global Ed is certainly one of the best decisions I have ever made. I didn't want the program to end and now that it has, I am looking for any excuse to return to Spain. Seville is an amazing city with so much to offer. It has a lot of cool restaurants and pubs, great nightlife, beautiful sightseeing and a very rich and charming culture. It is the perfect size-- big enough to where there is plenty to do, and small enough where everyone is very friendly and helpful if you are lost. The locals are very nice and there are also a lot of young students and travelers. Steven and Rosa were also amazing! They were always there if I wanted to talk about any concerns with my internship or even if I just needed someone to talk to. They were so welcoming and comforting that it really made my experience much less nerve wrecking. I still keep in touch with them as they really just became great friends and mentors. Seville is a really safe city (even if you are walking home alone at 4 in the morning) so that was another great thing about the location. The architecture is really beautiful especially being so close to the Cathedral and the Plaza de Espana. You are able to walk everywhere you need to go and the taxis are really cheap even if you don't feel like walking. One of my favorite parts of my stay was walking through the beautiful narrow streets (even lost sometimes) just exploring the city. My apartment was located in Triana about a 5 minute walk from the hospital where I was doing my internship. The location was great, super close, clean, and my roommates were very nice and welcoming and helpful! In my medical internship, I did a lot of shadowing and sometimes helped out with minor things that weren't too intimidating. The doctors were all very sweet and helpful and were there to teach me anything I wanted to know. I was able to shadow nurses as well and was able to learn a lot in terms of what I wanted to study myself. I was able to shadow a colonoscopy surgery just to see what it was like and I also spend some times in the neonatal unit simply because I had told them that I had an interest in neonatal. They were very flexible and keen to making sure I had a great experience tailored to my needs and requests. The program also gave us all long weekends to allow for personal travelling as well as planned excursions with the Global Ed group. These were phenomenal and we traveled to places I probably would not have known to go to on my own. It was a truly special experience. When choosing what program to go abroad with, Global Ed really stood out to me because of several factors: it was the most affordable for what you were getting, and Steven had reached out to me personally as well as Nicole offering to answer any questions that I had and it really showed me that they were going to be a more personal and quaint program than some of the others I had looked into. And I was certainly right in that aspect. I miss Seville dearly as well as Steven and Rosa, but I will definitely be returning the first chance I get. It was amazingly worth while and I gained much more than I can put into words. I gained the experience of a lifetime, improved my Spanish, integrated into a beautiful and charming culture, made amazing friends, gained confidence, and got to travel through Europe.