{"id":266363,"date":"2025-03-12T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=266363"},"modified":"2025-03-12T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:55:42","slug":"anthropology-study-abroad-trip-gives-umw-senior-a-taste-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/03\/12\/anthropology-study-abroad-trip-gives-umw-senior-a-taste-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropology Study Abroad Trip Gives UMW Senior a Taste of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UMW Senior Ariana Adamek’s study abroad trip gave her a “taste” of Europe.<\/p><\/div>

The sounds of a Greek celebration – laughter, clinking glasses, the beat of folk music – mingle with the salty Mediterranean air. A vibrant Danish landscape opens up under clear blue skies.<\/p>

For Ariana Adamek, a senior at the University of Mary Washington, these picturesque moments are more than postcard memories, they’re snapshots of a summer that deepened her understanding of food, culture and community.<\/p>

Through a course titled “Tasting Culture: Nordic and Mediterranean Food, Tradition and Nutrition” – and the Beyond the Classroom Endowment that made it possible – Adamek immersed herself in the culinary flavors and customs of both Greece and Denmark. The month-long program in the summer of 2024 was not only “rewarding and delicious,” Adamek said, it also expanded her academic perspective and revealed areas for further exploration.<\/p>

“As an anthropology and theatre major, I’m so grateful for the opportunity to observe and participate in other cultures firsthand,” said Adamek, a peer mentor coordinator who helps fellow UMW students immerse themselves in their own new experiences. “This trip allowed me to make connections with many unique students and incredible professors. It’s something I’ll never forget.” Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sounds of a Greek celebration – laughter, clinking glasses, the beat of folk music – mingle with the salty Mediterranean air. A vibrant Danish landscape opens up under clear blue skies.For Ariana Adamek, a senior at the University of Mary Washington, these picturesque moments are more than postcard memories, they’re snapshots of a summer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28679,"featured_media":266364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[25235,9034,9006],"class_list":["post-266363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-beyond-the-classroom-endowment","tag-department-of-anthropology-and-sociology","tag-lmentore","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}