“Coming back to the U.S. I felt like a tourist. The culture shock was huge,” said Aviva Elzufon `10, who interned in Spain last summer. She is majoring in Spanish and Latin American studies and says she is in love with Spanish culture.
After finding an internship opportunity with the help of Mount Holyoke’s Center of Global Initiatives, Elzufon was approved to work as a marketing and administrative assistant for the Center for Cross Cultural Study in Seville, Spain.

Forget about buying a pink fluffy heart if you happen to be in Bulgaria on Feb 14. Instead, get a fine bottle of Chardonnay or red Merlot.
Although St. Valentine’s Day is making its way into Bulgarian culture, Trifon Zarezan is the traditional holiday we celebrate on Feb.

“I am so sorry that you had to go through this. You have been brushed to the side and forgotten, and there is no excuse for that. Please hold on because we ARE coming,” wrote Garrison Harward, a first year student at CSU Chico, to the millions of victims in Darfur.

A young woman, still in her twenties, in financial difficulty, is offered a mediocre job position in a wealthier neighboring country where she can earn some money. The people who offer her the job look professional and polite, promise her good work conditions and appealing wages and gradually win her trust.

When we think “unipolar,” the tendency is to think of the United States and its big brother role in global reality. Its indisputable dominance in international policy provokes extreme reactions and a clash of interests.
The response in the Middle East to U.

Three of the top ten wealthiest countries in the world-Norway, Switzerland and Iceland-are not members of the European Union.
A group of developing Balkan countries, including the Czech Republic, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece, are also less than willing to accept EU policies as their own.

Millions of people worldwide migrate to the United States with a single purpose in mind -to achieve the American dream.
They carry the hope of success a longing for “unlimited possibilities,” wearing them out like old luggage.
But it would seem that this dream has run its course for some.

It has been eight years since five Bulgarians and one Palestinian were arrested for intentionally infecting 426 Libyan children with the deadly HIV/AIDS virus.
The circumstances that entrapped six health workers and over 400 children in a lethal game of torture, suffering and hopelessness sparked a passionate debate on medical ethics, human rights and the destruction rendered by the HIV/AIDS virus.