Personal Narrative: My Trip To Colombia

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Growing up, I was exposed to several cultures. I was born in Lebanon and raised between Ivory Coast and France. As Mark Twain once said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness”. I agree with him. At school, for instance, whenever I studied Colombia, there was an emphasis on the insecurity of the country and the drug trade. My trip to Colombia showed me a completely different country then the one depicted to me in class and that I had pictured in my head. This brings me to the first reason I chose to go to AUP : the diversity of the students. It will be an opportunity for me to get acquainted with new cultures and know more about the world I’m surrounded by. It also came to my attention that AUP proposes study trips which
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