Study Abroad in Barbados
Student couple Payton Cline and Gavin Antos enjoyed the beaches, surfing, snorkeling through shipwrecks and more while studying abroad in Barbados this past spring semester.
Cline and Antos, child study majors at the Long Island Campus who expect to graduate in 2024 and 2025, respectively, are excited about the different ways they can implement what they learned in Barbados, into their future classrooms.
Best food: Fishcakes.
“There was a fish fry every Friday night. We probably went there six to eight times. Every time we’d go and get the little fishcakes. It was fried dough with finely chopped up salt fish in it. It kind of tasted like a salty zeppoli. You don’t even taste the fish. It was really good. Macaroni pie was really good, too.”
Best views: All of them.
Cline: “I would go either to Coco Hill, which was the rainforest, or Freights Bay sunsets. Those were pretty insane.”
Antos: “I thought Carlisle Bay was pretty, but I also though Bathsheba was cool, which is a surf spot on the East coast. I’d heard of famous surfers surfing there, and I just wanted to see it.”
Biggest cultural differences: Driving on the opposite side of the roads and the slow pace.
“Driving on the opposite sides of the road was weird. Even just crossing the street, you’d look the wrong way first. And as far as pace, they’re in absolutely no rush. I think that’s really what makes it island culture. Coming as a New Yorker, it was hard at first getting used to that.”
Biggest takeaways: Try to study abroad again.
“This was a great way to travel the world and see different places while still getting college credit. It was much cheaper than traveling on our own, and I knew I wouldn’t be able to do this any other time. And this is kind of like our only time to be able to do something like this — for that cheap and that long.”
