Study Abroad

In ten days I will have finished my sohomore year of college and will be traveling with a wonderful group of people on a study abroad. This is more of a trip in my eyes but I can get credit for it. This is titled International Food Laws and Regulations. I am so very excited for this. I get to go to many different places and get to see some very exciting things. This is the main reason for me starting this blog. I hope to be able to share a pleffera of information about my study abraod that centered around what else but FOOD! I am such a food person.

We had a meeting regarding the study abroad and the instructors included this piece of information.




The exercise was to place our names by the specific area we felt we belonged to. Well to start off with there were many that appealed to me. I kind of happened upon food science by flipping through different colleges and looking at the different majors they had. My mom actually found food science and was like Ashlee this is it! See I have always liked everything about food; cooking it, eating it, talking about it. And so I appeal to many of the culture and traditions around food. I am also interested in how food plays an important part of our lives. We have meetings over dinner and lunches, we have food at all of our important events. Our lives are simply based around food even if we do not realize it. However the new food movements with all the new products are about meals on the go, meals that are quick and easy so you can get on with you lives. Well I am totally against that! Meals are supposed to be enjoyed and meals are meant to be had with others. It is a time to enjoy life and catch up with people. If we weren't meant to enjoy food, the thing that sustains us in life, we would make our own food like flowers and trees. But humans were meant to eat and enjoy eating. We are not meant to be eating power bars and new fat free foods that taste like nothing.
Then there is the scientist in me. Science has been one of my stronger sides. I was told once
"Stick with science girl you ask great questions!" by one of my science teachers. I will admit that I was almost a straight A student all throughout highschool ( with the first exception being Honors English and the second being Honors Pre Calc). But College is a whole different ballpark for me. But I am still pursuing my science career. And I do recgonize the importance of understanding International food laws and regulations especially if I will end up working in industry and trying to come up with international products.


So I will not post for about a month due to being out of country. But I do intend to take lots of photos and share many stories when I get back.