{"id":783,"date":"2016-10-04T10:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/german-russian\/?page_id=783"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:59:11","slug":"praneet-kang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/german-russian-studies\/alumni\/praneet-kang\/","title":{"rendered":"Praneet Kang (’17) on the 2015 FSA in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Praneet Kang ’17 (Photo: Jakub Kazecki)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cZur\u00fcck bleiben, bitte,\u201d a mechanical voice sounded along with obnoxious beeps as the doors to the U-Bahn slammed shut. Yet I had grown to love this obnoxious sound, something that signified my comfort in a completely new country with a language I was struggling to learn. Going abroad on FSA can be amazing in the sense that you always have people to fall back on; that piece of Bates that brings comfort with you when you are thrown in to a place that is not yours. To optimize on the experience, you must get over the fear of traveling alone or doing things that you would have never tried otherwise.<\/p>\n

This experience is something that I felt and cannot really give justice through words. It was the act of forming a new life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Therefore, I think it is more meaningful to present bits of experiences that flash through my mind whenever someone asks me about what abroad meant to me.<\/p>\n