Willamette World News

Dear faithful readers, It is that time of year once again: the school year is coming to a end, and many of our wonderful contributors must fly home to their respective countries. For our last issue of the year, please enjoy this touching collection of farewell articles, wherein our authors speak about American stereotypes and […]

When I was five years old, I vividly remembered two things about America. The first thing was the president of United States lived in the white house. The second was Gotham City was the most ‘famous’ city in America. This belief stemmed from early exposure to western pop music & various American TV shows.

Hi all, I cannot believe that this is the last article I will write. Before I came to the US, I had a stereotypical image of the US. For example people living in the US eat hamburgers everyday, everyone is proud of their country and nationality, and they don’t care about other people at all. I know this sounds like a negative point of view,  but the point is that I didn’t know […]

Dear Willamette Community, I cannot believe it, but my year at Willamette has come to an end. It has been a great experience and I have met many amazing people during my stay on the lovely West Coast of the United States. For me this wasn’t the first time that I have spent a longer […]

My experience in the United States is divided in two periods of my life: the first one as a child; the second one as an adult. Spending two years of my life in a small town in Kentucky, learning English and learning to adapt to a whole different place was no easy task. I learned […]

While I was in Bolivia, I “knew” the United States through the movies and the news. I had an image of a very violent place where anybody can have a gun, a place with many drug users and drug dealers, and place with a high level of promiscuity of its youth; consequently, it was not […]

It is time to say goodbye, and I would like to start this piece of writing by saying that I did not consider the United States as my first option to have an experience abroad, but now that I reflect about it, this is the perfect place to have a multicultural experience. I used to […]

When I first came to the United States in 2009, I went to The East coast. Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, DC… Huge cities, crowded roads and very industrialized regions. But as I came to Oregon, I heard someone saying “Left coast is definitely the right coast”. And to me it is so true… I fell […]