Study Abroad Narrative: When I was studying abroad, my friends and I decide to take a weekend trip to Italy. During our trip in Italy my phone was stolen, this had a lot of consequences because I had so many important details on my phone. First, I had my boarding pass in there and I was leaving the following day. Also, I had to report my phone stolen back at home so that meant that my SIM card from the US wouldn’t work here. I needed my SIM card from the US for many reasons which are the following: authentication to login to my home university where I was currently working as a online TA and communicating with family members that don’t have Whats App. When this situation happened I cried a lot and was trying to figure what to do. After I calmed down I started to think about how I would be able solve each of my problems. I was determined not to give up even though there were so many situations that almost made me give up. I was having trouble getting my boarding pass because I didn’t have the reservation code but at last I was able to get it. I ended up getting a new iPhone but I was having issues being able to login into my icloud account. It took a lot of series of events but I was finally able get into my account where all of my information was saved. Another thing I had to do was, call my phone company in Spain to add minutes to call to the US so I could call my school to see how I would be able to login in to my account. There was a lot other things that I had to do and it took a lot of problem solving skills/determination but I’m glad that I was able to overcome it. This is an experience that taught me a lot on how to overcome different situations when something out of my control happens.
