Insanity in the Dominican Republic Past Review
By April H (VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS., Western Washington University) for
Western Washington University: Traveling - Latin Caribbean Art: Exploring Race and Gender in Contemporary Art
What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile?
Yes, but I think other programs could have been better organized and more of what I wanted.
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| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? | 
No
 
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 * Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
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Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | Yes | 
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| Language acquisition improvement? | 
 Everyone! Except our professor. Spanish was definitely necessary day to day, many people did not speak English.  | 
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