Elementary education senior and Chinese student Jiaying Chen said she has many exciting plans for spring break right here in Michigan, despite the waves of students heading south for tropical weather.
Chen said she believes a lot of international students don’t feel the need to explore Michigan.
“Not a lot of people want to dig into the history part,” Chen said.
Chen said she enjoyed traveling to several places within Michigan, which allowed her to learn a lot about the state’s history.
Chen works with Okemos Montessori school children as part of her elementary education degree.
She said she is most excited about using her time off to take her students to the Potter Park Zoo during break.
Although Chen had an adventurous vacation to Florida as a freshman, she hasn’t traveled during spring break since then.
She said she prefers to plan vacations for after the end of spring semester so she doesn’t have to worry about homework assignments while she’s away.
She said this spring break will be a restful and exciting one for her.
Media and information freshman and Dominican Republic student Quirico Romero Gomez is also planning on having a laid back and relaxing break. He said he plans to make a trip to Miami by himself.
Although it may sound odd to vacation alone, Gomez said he likes to get some much-needed relaxation.
He said he wouldn’t be alone the entire week and that he plans to meet up with some friends who are traveling there separately.
Another unique reason sending Gomez to Florida is ice skating.
“I know it sounds weird going from Michigan to Florida to go ice skating,” Gomez said.
He said he tried it out the last time he was there and enjoyed it a lot.
Journalism freshman and French student Natacha Larnaud said she plans to put herself to work during the break through an MSU service trip to Mexico.
Larnaud said she would recommend that students use spring break as a time to do something productive and leave the fun vacations for the summer.
“At first I wanted to go to Cancún and party and all,” she said. She then opted out and decided to do something productive over spring break.
Larnaud said she was immediately excited to go to Mexico when she heard about the four credit service trip.
There she would get to primarily spend time working with children in an orphanage.
But it won’t be all work for Larnaud.
Apart from service work, students would have free time and fun trips scheduled during the trip, too.
