The secret to making an authentic Spanish tortilla – a sort of omelet stuffed with fried potatoes and onions – is in the flip.
One student slopped raw egg onto the electric burner. Another slid half the tortilla onto the floor. Yet another ended up with scrambled eggs and potatoes. But a few showed off their perfect tortillas, with crispy egg outside and a still-jiggling golden mass of potatoes and onions inside.

This is what study abroad looks like in the age of COVID-19.
“But this (online) class has definitely exceeded my expectations. Julian’s been able to get us a bunch of really cool, really knowledgeable guest speakers. The silver lining is that we’re not limited only to people in the Basque country,” Penfield says.
Then the pandemic led the university to recall all students studying abroad and cancel its spring break and summer programs.

So Zabalbeascoa, who is of Basque heritage, reached deep into his Rolodex, enlisting a dozen guest speakers in Spain, Germany and the U.S. to help him teach his students about Basque history and culture – including how to dance the fandango and how to make a Basque cheesecake. Nineteen students signed up for the online class, while others decided to wait until they can study abroad in person.
Zabalbeascoa acknowledges there’s no substitute for an actual study abroad experience, but a rich learning experience is still being offered online, he says.
“We’ve got the leading expert on the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, the leading expert on the Nazi occupation of the French Basque country and cookbook author Marti Buckley, who wrote a New York Times best cookbook of 2018,” he says.

“We’re inviting students to get their feet wet with a host culture that they might want to do full study abroad in later,” MacKinnon says. “It’s not the same as being face-to-face, but they are getting what I think people need right now – a little bit of fun.”
Normally, students can enroll in a global internship during their study abroad as an add-on, for-credit experience. Now, they can still earn that international experience and those credits, but remotely, MacKinnon says.
Partner organizations match each student with a company or nonprofit abroad. Students attend an online classroom module with discussion of their internship experiences, workshops and networking in their field. They also enjoy a cultural module that exposes them to music and art, cooking classes, virtual tours and guest speakers from the host country.
It’s not too late to sign up, MacKinnon says: Some experiences are still available in July and August.

While fall study abroad programs have not been canceled yet, MacKinnon says the odds are good that some or all of them will be, so her staff made sure that students who’d signed up had a “Plan B”: registering for on-campus classes and rolling over their study abroad plans to 2021.
Not counting those “rollovers,” more than 100 students have already applied to study abroad next year, MacKinnon says.
“You know how you have a picture in your head while you’re reading? I actually want to see the places where those things happened,” she says.
That’s exactly what Zabalbeascoa is aiming for.
“My dream for this online class is that this is the one and only time I teach it,” he says. “I’m hoping that by next summer, some of these students can go with me to San Sebastian – and they’ll have this great foundation that they can build upon.”
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