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Cailee Franklin
Professor Lynn Raymond

uwRT

1103

9 November 2015

Horror Can Be Intriguing

In our initial project proposal, we had originally decided to answer the question of what
purposes people travel, the modes in which the travel by, the worlds most popular places and

what makes them so popular compared to the unpopular locations. We also had planned to
discuss the role customs play on foreign and domestic travel and bring in our personal
experiences of traveling to different places.

We had originally discussed the possibility of including studying abroad because it helps
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of the aspects of foreign travel and LINCC is a supporter of this. It could be an

ing way to help bring awareness and promote study abroad opportunities to the class for

who were not familiar with these options in their career as a student at Charlotte. It was
obvious that we were only going to talk about the benefits of studying abroad and the positive
experiences that go along with it, until we received the suggestion of looking into horror stories

of studying abroad, which changed our initial plan some.

I began looking up horror stories of student traveling to see if there was any way we
could incorporate any of these experiences into our presentation. I was shocked at how

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happened in Ecuador, Panama, Uganda, Ghana, Guatemala, Lebanon, and Costa Rica. These

were all covered in different countries, which is surprising because it shows that there is not one