Video Transcript
Julie Price
Massey University, New Zealand


When I went to study abroad, I was hoping to, basically, 
stretch myself as a person.  I wanted some new experiences, 
I wanted to get out of my comfort zone. Because after being 
at UNCG for three years I just felt like I needed a change. 
I needed to get out there and experience new people, try to 
make new friends, become more independent.

It’s just an amazing experience all around. There is so much 
to learn about yourself, about another culture, how other 
cultures view your own…there’s so much to see, new foods to 
try…it’s just amazing.

My classes at Massey…the professors were excellent, they 
were really nice and always willing to help. I took a 
communications class, a design class, an information systems 
class, which was really hard, and a marketing class. I enjoyed 
all of them and I learned a lot.

Where I studied abroad, in Wellington, there’s not this main 
campus.  I mean there is, but people don’t really live on 
campus, you live in the city, which is right by campus.  And 
I lived in…it was basically an apartment complex.  Six or 
seven of us lived together and shared grocery bills. We all 
went to school together.  But it was really relaxed, nice…it 
was a nice atmosphere. It was five minutes from all the action, 
so we could walk everywhere, which was perfect.

I did do a lot of traveling.  I traveled with a Scottish girl 
at the end that I met through orientation.  So, orientation 
is very key when you study abroad.  Make sure you meet lots 
of people and get numbers, even though you barely know these 
people - that’s where I met a lot of my friends. So she and I 
traveled for three weeks on the North Island of New Zealand 
and then three weeks on the South Island and just went from 
hostel to hostel and if we liked a city we would stay. We saw 
a lot and did a lot of cool things. We were on a glacier.  We 
saw killer whales in the wild. We went sailing with dolphins. 
There’s so much to experience in New Zealand – I mean you can 
be on a glacier and 30 minutes to an hour later you can be at 
the beach. It’s really small and the people are really friendly.
It’s a great place to travel.

I would just say, definitely study abroad.  It was one of the 
best experiences of my life! I kind of planned it at the last 
minute and one of the main reasons why I did it was because 
my sister had done it. So I thought, oh, you know…she kind of 
suggested it. But I think everyone should seriously consider 
studying abroad. It made me a better person, it made me more 
open-minded, it made me more culturally intelligent, about 
other cultures and my own. 

But yeah, wonderful experience and I would suggest it for anyone.
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Study Abroad
Special Thanks to 	Julie Price
Interviewer		Sara Landreth
Technical Assistance	Steve Moore
Production & Editing	Heidi Fischer

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