-: My name is Abby.
I'm from Omaha
and I'm a management major on a pre-law track.
I've been to Europe before
and I just got to like do a day in each different city
and Barcelona was one of my favorites.
And I always knew that I wanted to come back.
I wanted a city that would put me outside of my comfort zone
but also where I would be able to communicate still
and get around enough,
be able to walk around by myself and be independent,
but also do stuff with friends.
I'm lucky to be a part of a huge travel family,
so my grandparents and my parents are all
really into international travel
so it wasn't too hard for me to convince them.
But I'm a part of an honors program
that gives me a scholarship to come.
So that helped a lot as far as paying for my schooling
and just explaining why I wanted to go to Spain
and what kind of support I would need while I was there.
I am someone who loves to do a bunch of different stuff
so even though I've been here a week
I've been fortunate to do a couple different things.
Yesterday I went to the Moco Museum.
It's a museum of more modern art,
so some graffiti or like different stuff that they do
like on artwork outside.
And there was Andy Warhol.
There was a bunch of different artists.
It's fairly new, a lot of different styles of art.
You just walk through and they have a little audio guide.
And so I did that yesterday. I loved it.
It was beautiful.
Besides that, the beach is amazing and sunny
and something we definitely don't have in Nebraska
so that was nice.
And then what else have I done?
I've just honestly walked the city.
I've gotten to try a lot of really different restaurants.
Some restaurants that were close
that are like more like American food.
Like we went for 50 cent wings last night and that was fun.
But then yesterday I went to like a brunch spot
that was more traditional.
And so just trying out all the different food and walking
and experiencing the neighborhood both that we live in
and then as well, the neighborhood at school.
I think that in management especially
you work with a lot of different people.
Especially if you're higher up, you're gonna be
overseeing people and just working with people
that are so different from you and diverse
and come from all different areas.
So I think learning to appreciate culture
and other people's experiences
and that not everyone is coming from a life
that you're so used to.
As someone from Omaha who went to Lincoln
I kind of felt like I was in a bubble.
So I've learned a lot about other people,
whether that's even just students on the trip with me
or other people in Spain.
And then just pushing you outside of your comfort zone.
I mean, not everything's gonna be easy
and exactly how you want it to be all the time.
And so learning to appreciate that and just adapting,
being alone and stuff like that.