{"id":53,"date":"2022-03-07T22:51:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sloveniacroatiabosnia2022\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2022-04-05T21:10:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:10:45","slug":"sophie-hills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sloveniacroatiabosnia2022\/sophie-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senior from Orleans, Massachusetts, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majors: Political Science and Music Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What intrigues\/excites you about the Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina program?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I&#8217;m super excited to travel and learn with this great group of people, especially since we&#8217;re going to places that I&#8217;m already starting to become attached to having only learned about them in a classroom. I haven&#8217;t been near this part of Europe, and I&#8217;m excited to be exposed to the cultures and customs of the countries we are visiting. I value opportunities to learn about other people&#8217;s lives, whether in another country or just another state, because I can see the effect it has of improving my abilities to relate, be open, and be compassionate.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What has been the most meaningful idea you&#8217;ve discovered or learned about the idea of shifting borders so far?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As we&#8217;re learning about the breakup of Yugoslavia and the way borders shifted to where they sit now, we&#8217;re also watching the tumult in Ukraine in real time. Reading about people living in Slovenia and Bosnia, in the aftermath of or during war, has made the news I see about Ukraine even more real to me. It&#8217;s definitely incredibly sobering, but I&#8217;m also glad to have already been thinking about borders, ethnic tensions, and identity in an academic setting, so that I was somewhat prepared to begin thinking about what the people of Ukraine are facing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you hope to either learn yourself or share with others about world literature (based on what you know so far)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>At the moment, I&#8217;ve been viewing world literature as any literature that teaches me about a culture that&#8217;s not my own \u2013 especially when it&#8217;s written by someone from that culture or place. 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