A Mainer Abroad: An American in Bulgaria – The Maine Campus

Until very recently, I’d never left the United States. In fact, I’d barely left the state of Maine. For most of my 21 years, the idea of foreign travel had been highly unlikely for people who come from towns with only one streetlight like myself. Nonetheless, I’ve always been determined to spend a semester of college in a foreign country. However, for someone who’s spent most of her life in a sheltered and reasonably tame New England town, I probably could have chosen something a little less obscure than Bulgaria for my study abroad destination. But I’m a huge fan of just going for it.