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My fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh blogs will be about the Study Abroad Office in CSU, Chico I will write about my experiences when I visit the study abroad office and the interactions I have with the students and faculties there. Before my classmates and I visited the study abroad office, we first visited the study abroad fair out in front of the Bell Memorial Union. The fair is to spread information to students, passers buyers, and staff about studying abroad. Most of the booths there were led and accompanied by student peer advisors. We split up and went to converse with different peer advisors that were present there. We didn’t stay too long because after talking with one peer advisor, we agreed that there isn’t any need to talk with other peer advisors. We came to that conclusion because most of the information that we are given is regurgitated information from each person besides the peer advisors’ experience from studying abroad.

We left the study abroad fair and went to the study abroad office instead. I visited the study abroad office with two members of my guidebook group. Jackie and Nate. We got to the study abroad office around eleven-twenty. The study abroad office is located on the fourth floor of the Student Service Center. The easiest way to get to the office is by elevator, unless you want to exercise then I would recommend using the stairs. As of now, the only other organization that is on the fourth floor is Educational Talent Search, also known as ETS. The office didn’t have a lot of students present when we first arrived, most likely still attending the study abroad fair. The office’s entrance is a double door that is propped all the way open. The doors are decorated with flyers, drawings, information, and other stuff about studying abroad.

We spoke with the person that was stationed at the front desk and explained that we were there to conduct research on the office and to see if we would be able to speak with someone who was knowledgeable about the history of the study abroad office. We were told to have a seat while she went to see if any of the study-abroad advisors were available for interviews. The waiting room is small and doesn’t have a lot of available seats to occupy. There are eight to nine seats, give or take on that. Across the front desk, there is an advisor? I wasn’t quite sure what and who they were. The advisor was talking with a student about Spain. I didn’t want to eavesdrop so much, instead, I focused on what was around us. We sat there observing the area for about five minutes. During that five minutes, there was an influx of students coming in and out of the study abroad office. Some exited the office from their appointments with advisors and some came into the office to arrange an appointment.

The front desk recipient came back and told us that the study abroad advisors are busy at the moment and that their availability during the day is from one-two pm and five-six pm during the weekdays. We said our thank you and left the office. It was unproductive, to be honest. Before we left, each one of us took selfies as proof of our visitation and exited the office.