Business Abroad: Garrett

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06/13/2023 Added

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Garrett Smith, accounting and management major from Lees Summit, Missouri, shares his experience and what he loves after arriving to study abroad in Barcelona, Spain, during the summer.

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[00:00:00.060]My name is Garrett Smith,
[00:00:01.320]and I am going to be a junior accounting
[00:00:04.020]and management major and with a minor in psychology.
[00:00:06.810]So that's me.
[00:00:08.100]So this would've been like one of the only summers
[00:00:10.620]that I would've been able to study abroad.
[00:00:12.540]That's kind of what kind of pushed me to do it.
[00:00:14.103]I've also never really been abroad.
[00:00:16.500]I've never been to Europe.
[00:00:17.430]And also I know UNL has that big history here
[00:00:19.500]in Barcelona too, so I knew that it was gonna be
[00:00:22.500]a really good program,
[00:00:23.333]and I just kind of wanted to push myself
[00:00:24.870]and do something different than just work.
[00:00:26.790]Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think
[00:00:28.230]I just mentioned to them early like right when I signed up
[00:00:31.740]and they were super supportive, which was great.
[00:00:34.050]And then I've kind of like,
[00:00:35.970]kind of mentioned it, keep going like as I've been
[00:00:38.190]like fundraising and other stuff like that.
[00:00:40.050]So I've kind of tried to keep them in the loop
[00:00:41.970]as much as I can, but I've also kind of tried
[00:00:44.190]to do it a lot myself as well.
[00:00:46.258]I got a lot of scholarships through the College of Business,
[00:00:48.840]the Business Honors Academy, huge shout-out,
[00:00:51.360]pretty good scholarship for that one.
[00:00:52.950]And then I just applied, I think it's... is it called MAPS?
[00:00:55.890]Yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah.
[00:00:56.723]So that's one of the ones I applied to
[00:00:57.840]that like it's multiple,
[00:00:59.100]and they compound with each other.
[00:01:00.390]So that's how I got a lot of it paid for.
[00:01:02.520]And then everything else I've kind of paid for myself
[00:01:04.590]like outside of scholarships.
[00:01:06.390]So this Saturday we were running
[00:01:07.680]through the Metro because we were trying to get
[00:01:09.780]to like a club before like their sale ended.
[00:01:14.340]So we were trying to get there by 1:30
[00:01:16.050]and a couple of the other of us were just running
[00:01:18.030]through the Metro trying to reach the right stop
[00:01:20.400]and we missed it, so we just looked really stupid.
[00:01:22.890]But that was pretty funny,
[00:01:24.720]so I thought that one was pretty fun.
[00:01:26.580]I mean, we've just been, Tarragona.
[00:01:28.080]We went to Tarragona, which is a city
[00:01:29.400]in North Barcelona; that was really, really cool.
[00:01:31.410]It's like an old ancient ruins of like the Roman cities.
[00:01:35.310]I've just been blown away
[00:01:36.143]with like the architecture in general and the food.
[00:01:38.820]It's a lot better and it's cheaper.
[00:01:41.084]I was more worried about actually like ordering it
[00:01:43.560]and communicating it than actually eating it.
[00:01:45.570]So I'm a very, like, I'm not a picky eater,
[00:01:47.280]so it's kind of I'll just try anything and eat anything.
[00:01:50.340]Learning to communicate. I think you just
[00:01:51.840]have to do it.
[00:01:52.673]You pick up- Hand signals. (laughs)
[00:01:53.506]Yeah, you pick up like words as well.
[00:01:55.050]And I know a good amount of the words already
[00:01:57.090]so it's good to know a couple of those before you go
[00:01:59.100]just so you can communicate somewhat.
[00:02:01.770]I would say just do it and like, not say not think about it,
[00:02:04.860]but like I think we can always make excuses not to go
[00:02:08.130]like in terms of like, "Oh, I need to stay, do internship,
[00:02:10.770]like work, make money," and like it's a valid argument.
[00:02:14.040]I feel like this is a lot more valuable
[00:02:16.350]than that in terms of just like the experience
[00:02:19.320]and like how you grow as a person.
[00:02:21.000]I think by the end, it'll suck by the end
[00:02:23.430]because I'll be used to it and wanna stay
[00:02:25.050]and then I'll have to leave.
[00:02:26.550]And I mean, it's worth it. I think so.
[00:02:29.790]Awesome. Yeah.
[00:02:30.623]Perfect. Thank you, that's a wrap.

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