Sri Lanka Archives - 海角社区 /stories-locations/sri-lanka/ Institute for Study Abroad Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:26:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cropped-cropped-ifsa-favicon-192x192-1-32x32.webp Sri Lanka Archives - 海角社区 /stories-locations/sri-lanka/ 32 32 Skyping Home: Two World Collide /student-stories/skyping-home-two-world-collide/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:00:22 +0000 When I walk through the gates of my host family鈥檚 home, I already feel comfortable and at ease. My ammaa Puja and I can sit and talk for hours; she tells me stories of her youth, her university days in Paris and the drama of her different boyfriends, how she knew she should marry my [...]

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]]> The Guessing Game: Racial Identity Abroad /student-stories/the-guessing-game-racial-identity-abroad/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:00:02 +0000 Just the other day, as I was walking down a main street in the center of Kandy, a shop keeper called out to me, 鈥淗ey Japanese!鈥 When I was walking back to my host family鈥檚 home that same day, a security guard at an intersection near the home came up to me and asked if [...]

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]]> Where Are You From? Understanding Microaggressions Abroad /student-stories/mitsuki-nishimoto-isle-program/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:00:08 +0000 鈥淥yaage rata mokakda?鈥 (What is your country / where are you from?) 鈥淎emerikaawa,鈥 we respond. 鈥淎h鈥︹ Several moments pass and the kind stranger smiles at me. 鈥淥yaage rata mokakda?鈥 鈥淎emerikaawa,鈥 I reiterate, 鈥淣amut mage pawula Japanwala.鈥 (But my family is from Japan.) A conversation here often starts in this manner and continues with, 鈥淎h, what a beautiful country,鈥 [...]

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]]> A Very Special Poya Day /student-stories/a-very-special-poya-day/ Sun, 03 Jun 2018 12:20:27 +0000 October 15th in Sri Lanka was more than just another Saturday: for me and my family it was Poya Day, it was my amma鈥檚 birthday, and it was a day full of bonding and fun! (Just for reference, 鈥渁mma鈥 means mom, 鈥渁kka鈥 means older sister, and 鈥渢atta鈥 means dad in Sinhala 鈥 these are my [...]

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