On July 14, 2007, I cried as I said goodbye to my boyfriend at the airport and got on a plane to go study at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa for a semester. While I was there I had the chance to meet some incredible people, study music, learn a lot about South Africa as a country, Africa as a continent, do volunteer work with impoverished children, see a lot of beautiful scenery, and learn to dodge traffic while riding a bicycle through a busy campus on the left hand side of the road. Part of the reason I chose South Africa as my location for studying abroad was simply the fact that I didn't know that much about it. That and the fact that my university only had exchange programs for music majors
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