Hello everyone, welcome back for my final blog post for the Global Service Learning: Trinidad program. While it did not go exactly how I wanted it to go and we were unable to travel abroad, I still learned a lot of invaluable lessons throughout my experience. The first main lesson that I learned is to…

It’s still upsetting knowing that we were unable to go to Trinidad but taking a look at the situation almost three weeks after the decision, the University made the right call by cancelling all Spring Break study abroad programs. At the time, there were a few confirmed cases in the United States but not nearly…

It’s crazy to think that we are now just a week away from leaving for Trinidad. It feels like just last week I had gotten accepted into the program and now here we are preparing our first reports for Nature Seekers and beginning to pack before we leave next weekend. Because we are getting so…

Hello Everyone! My name is Randy Sirota and I am a junior in the Pitt Business School majoring in Marketing and Human Resources with Certificates in Leadership and Ethics and Sports Management. Growing up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey (located about twenty minutes outside Philadelphia), I never really had the chance to leave the East…