A Stirling Diary: An Intercultural Story of Communication, Connection, and Coming-of-Age

She peered into the steaming crater of Mt. Aetna, slid “up” an icy mountain in Bavaria, and was marched to a shabby police station in Tunisia. She also had some important decisions to make while she spent her junior year abroad as an exchange student at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Should she remain dependent on her noncommittal boyfriend or should she risk loneliness and abandon her dreams of their future? Should she focus on marriage, attend graduate school, or should she begin...