Student Observations

What’s it like to be a student abroad? What will you see that will interest you, surprise you, or possibly even shock you? The resources listed here are all those written by SRAS students as firsthand accounts of witnessing foreign traditions in their native environs. For more on SRAS programs visit SRAS.org

June 30, 2019

Labor Day: Student Observations

Labor Day is celebrated in many countries of Eurasia every May 1st. Formerly International Worker’s Solidarity Day under the old Communist system, it seems that everyone calls this one something different now. “Labor Day,” “Worker’s Day,” and “Day of Spring and Labor” all seem to be used, often even in the same counrty, but everyone […]

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Banyas in Bishkek – Cultural Experience

WWII and Russian Identity

Buryats on Buryatia

Maslenitsa: Student Observations

Going to Catholic Mass in Warsaw, Poland

Corpus Christi in Poland: Student Observations

In Memory of the Warsaw Uprising

Buryat Cooking Lesson at Ulus in Irkutsk

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