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Love Locks
Photo by: Teddy Petrova
Studied Abroad: IES EU, Fall 2008
Photo Location: Riga, Latvia

Just-married Latvian couples follow the tradition of "locking" their love on bridges of Riga's main park.  The superstition is that [by doing so] their love will hold, the way the locks stay on the bridge.  They also have their names engraved on the locks.  On the bridge, you can also see smaller locks locked onto the larger ones.  These are the "love locks" of the children of married couples.

The Gondolier
Photo by: Katie Bayles
Studied Abroad: IWU London Program, Fall 2008
Photo Location: Venice, Italy

This image captures a gondolier at sunset on the Grand Canal in Venezia.  Our professor [Profesor Scott Sheridan, 2008 London Program Director] took the whole group to Italy on our mid-term break and it is there that we were all able to ride the traditional gondolas.  Venice is both the City of Water and the City of Light, and I think this image captures the wonderment we all had that last night in this Italian paradise.

Wedding Party
(Marti Lyons, BADA)

I'll Catch the Next Boat
(Chris Davis, AustraLearn)

Fall 2007

A Lone Farmer at Lake Lugu
(Stephanie Panozzo, IES Beijing)

The Demilitarized Zone
(Thomas Yang, Yonsei University)

Spring 2008

Imagine
(Leah Pelz, CIEE Hungary

Human Bones from Genocide Victims at a Rwandan Church
(Angela Rumsey, SIT Uganda/Rwanda)

Fall 2008

Leave Me Behind
(Lucas Loury, College Year Athens)

Asaam Boy Proud of His "Pet"
(Kirsten Pufahl, SIT Ghana)