“I found peace in routine and immersion. Much of my most beloved memories of Australia aren’t the ones of wild weekend trips and beach kickbacks. Actually, the most vivid part of my experience abroad was simply my daily commute to school and back — delightfully prosaic mornings of running to the bus stop after fending off a flock of ibises from the $1 banh mi clutched in my arms …” Jessica Ho is a fourth-year Communication major who studied at UNSW in Sydney in Spring 2020. Read more about her experience abroad.