{"id":962,"date":"2016-04-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:17:53","slug":"thanks-and-study-abroad-in-cuba-by-carey-powers-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/2016\/04\/28\/thanks-and-study-abroad-in-cuba-by-carey-powers-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks and study abroad in Cuba by Carey Powers ’14"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Carey Powers ’14<\/strong>
\nMajor:Global Studies\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMinor: Women, Gender, Sexuality<\/strong>
\nBrown in Cuba<\/a><\/strong>
\nFall 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dear Colby,<\/p>\n

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My name is Carey Powers and I graduated from Colby in 2014. I’m writing you to say how thankful to you and the study abroad team at Colby. When I came to your office in 2011 to talk about studying in Cuba, you were so excited and you helped me figure out which programs would be best. I ended up going on the Brown in Cuba<\/a> program in the fall of 2012 and it was perfect. My 4 months in Havana were life-changing, and when Obama made his announcement about relaxing restrictions with Cuba in 2014, I knew I had to be a part of this moment.\"Powers_Carey_2014_Cuba\"<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I leave for Cuba again, but this time as a staff member at Cuba Educational Travel\u00a0<\/a>, a job I started a few weeks ago. I’m based in DC but I will travel to Cuba to assist clients on people-to-people trips. It’s an amazing opportunity!\"Powers_Carey_2014_Cuba2\"<\/p>\n

When I tell people that I studied in Havana they are so shocked- and this interaction is a reminder to me of what Colby stands for- pushing the boundaries of education and making sure students aren’t shut down for having outlandish ideas.<\/p>\n

Thanks again for all that you and your team do!<\/p>\n

Read more about Carey’s Ticket to Havana<\/a> in Colby Magazine<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carey Powers ’14 Major:Global Studies\u00a0 Minor: Women, Gender, Sexuality Brown in Cuba Fall 2012   Dear Colby,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[266376,267203,270881],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ocsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}