Morgan knows this is meant to be

When I first found out I was accepted into the Cape Town study abroad program, all I remember is screaming and smiling. Happy screams, elation, filled with joy, gasping for breath, running around the room, type of happiness. What I really felt was excitement… for the future, for what I would learn, for the people I would meet, and especially for the place we were all headed.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. I’m a junior now, but this is my first semester at UConn and I never planned on going abroad, especially to somewhere in Africa. Then I heard a little about this program and thought I should look into it, and after attending the symposium, I was overcome by how right this felt in my head and my heart. I remember in the interview Marita had picked up on how important my family was to me and asked the question: “if I were to sit your siblings down in a room, what would they tell me about you- the good, the bad and the ugly?” And I fell in love with that question because who knows me better than my siblings? So after the symposium and the interview the pull I was feeling towards this program was gaining strength, and I was so nervous about what would happen. And then I got the email!!!!! What I felt and still feel is happiness, curiosity, determination, apprehension, excitement, and most of all, the feeling that this is exactly what I should be doing, and hearing about this program and being accepted was something that happened for a reason.