Meet the New ISC Interns

Hello! My name is Sarah O’Bernier, and I am a senior this year and will graduate in May with a degree in History. I know what you’re thinking… history? What is she going to do with that? If all goes according to plan, in a few years I will go to law school and practice immigration or family law. However, in the mean time, I am hoping to live and work abroad. While at Whitworth, I had the amazing opportunity to study abroad in Milan, Italy through ISEP. My semester there opened my eyes to what it means to truly learn about another culture. Before I arrived, I assumed that it would be similar to the United States because I had never traveled beyond Canada before; however, my semester in Italy taught me the vast cultural differences there are in the world and created a desire in me to want to learn more about them firsthand. Studying in Italy also opened my eyes to the wonderment of traveling. While in Europe, I traveled to Germany, Greece, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England, and Scotland. Once I started traveling I couldn’t stop, and now it is one of my dreams to travel the world as much as possible and to learn as much as I can about other cultures and the unique perspectives of individuals that live around the globe.

 

 

 

Shalom! My name is Rebecca Lemick and I am a freshman majoring in Political Science and Economics  I'm  20 years old and I have just moved here from Tel Aviv, Israel and to sum it all up in a nutshell, I'm a third culture kid. Now you must be wonder what is a third culture kid?  Well a third culture kid also known as TCK, is someone who can't really point where home is or  where they're from. Overseas I had always been classified as an American but here in Washington I've been dubbed a foreign national. So,why am I considered a TCK? Well I was born in Virginia in a small town about 30 miles away from D.C  but I've spent the past 15 years living overseas in a variety of countries, cultures and societies. Before moving here from Israel I  also lived in Greece, Paraguay, and the Netherlands. I've also travelled all over world  but due to the fact that my immediate family lives overseas, I can usually be found exploring the streets of Cairo, walking through Oslo and catching up with my abuelos in Tegucigalpa during the holidays. As much as I have enjoyed travelling and all the opportunities given, I am thankful to be back home and set some permanents roots here at Whitworth. With all my experiences abroad I hope to use this opportunity of being a TCK to expose people to different ideas, cultures and beliefs to create a more unified, tolerant and respectful world despite cultural, sociological, racial and ethnic differences. In the end, we are all human.