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In my high school, our teachers would talk about our \u201cSandton bubble\u201d and then I applied to Vassar College, and I started hearing about the \u201cVassar bubble\u201d. With a beautiful campus, almost anything you could ever need within a mile radius and a lack of public transport, it\u2019s pretty easy to stay in the vicinity of Vassar College for all four years of your education here – but I didn\u2019t want to. When I found Field Experiences in the Hudson Valley, it was the perfect way to get out of the \u201cbubble\u201d before I eve\"My<\/a>r got too comfortable in it.<\/p>\n

My name is Caitlin Munchick, and yes, I do have an accent – it\u2019s from South Africa. I\u2019m from Johannesburg, which has around four to ten million people, depending on how you define it. So, coming to Poughkeepsie, with a fraction (of a fraction) of the people living here, has definitely been a change for me. Then, we went to Armenia, which was a fraction of the size of Poughkeepsie, and surprisingly I kind of liked it.<\/p>\n

With one traffic light dir\"Drive<\/a>ecting \u201ctraffic\u201d, empty plots of land, scenic stops along the way and quaint, wooden houses completed by the American flag, raised up high – it was completely d\"Open?\"<\/a>ifferent to what I\u2019m used to. It was charming, especially after finding a drive-in theatre and a store named \u201cAntiques, A Loose Interpretation\u201d that was \u201cOpen (more or less)(less than more)\u201d. I could see why tired New Yorkers would retreat to towns like Armenia.<\/p>\n

Although the farmer\u2019s market was probably half the size we would have expected (at least), it compensated with a friendly vendors and great produce. With a professor who loves the word \u201cselfie\u201d, a class outing every Friday, and a good group of students, I\u2019d say I\u2019m feeling pretty good about this class so far.<\/p>\n

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