Fellow Stories

12 February 2016

Bennett Donine

2016-05-25

My entire life I have been taught to accept certain truths as fact and certain knowledge as objective, but during my time abroad in Ecuador I have been able to see that some of these truths are not accurate. It is not as straightforward as I had once believed. We are all complex individuals never...

We Are Family

Brianna Gilmore

2016-05-25

    It’s official, we are family. We took a family road trip to Quilotoa! We woke up at 5am, packed the car and hit the road around 6am. My brother, Washington, drove. In the passenger seat sat my dad, Wilson and his daughter Tiffany. My mom, my sister, and I squished into the backseat. In the...

Capstone

Mandula Bashu van den Berg

2016-05-20

Yet another attempt to answer that eternal question: “How was India?”

Things I Learned While Living In India

Mandula Bashu van den Berg

2016-05-18

A year of 19th

Khwanhatai Kongkapetch

2016-05-17

28th April, 2016. Today is my last day of me being 19. Yes, Tomorrow is my 20th birthday.  I was trying to think about what was I was doing this time last year, then the picture of me sitting in a classroom and trying to study for my IB finals came up. I remember those...

To You, My Friends

Munyaradzi Munyati

2016-05-16

This is to you, my friends. Friends who, Forged through trials of Fire and Rain, Formed connections strong Built upon a pyre of Countless tears and Multiple more smiles Such that the friendships formed Outshone the pain of any fire   This is to you, my friends, The ones who endured countless hours As seats...

‘Too much salt’

Mandula Bashu van den Berg

2016-05-16

Throughout the last months of my stay in India, I put a lot of effort in my so called Final Community Project. ‘Too much salt’, a street art project on domestic violence was supposed to be an attempt to demonstrate my learnings and give something, however small, ‘back’  to my community. At first, I was...

…From Being Home

Noah Hapke

2016-05-13

I'm writing this in a collection of days, because I simply have not been able to formulate my words about being back home. I'm writing this from my bedroom back in Huntington Beach, California; from the kitchen table with my coffee, and cat sitting next to me; and from the sofa in my pajamas and...

Ojala voy a…

Elena Doss

2016-05-12

Ojala voy a… (Hopefully I will…) Breath : Relish in every moment : Remember the good : Forgive : Not forget : Embrace the weird : Respect the norm : Savor the ride : Challenge yourself : Take in my surroundings : Love myself : Love others : Prioritize : Indulge : Let go :...

My Host Family

Skyler Narotsky

2016-05-07

Hey there my awesome blog subscribers. I thought I'd use this blog to tell you all about my host family, the lovely people I lived with throughout my seven months in Cañar. My host family consists of six people, not including myself. There's Hatun Mama (grandma), Mama Carmela (mom), Tía María (aunt), Geovanny (brother), Lourdes...

Final Thoughts

Allison Douma

2016-05-07

Everyone is talking about how Malia Obama is taking a bridge year and whether or not bridge years are beneficial or not. I, as a student who recently returned from a bridge year can attest to how meaningful and important bridge years are. I read a book recently called The Road to Character by David...

From the Wide Open Place

Maria Morava

2016-05-05

The first thing I noticed when I returned were the trees. We rode in a bus through the Redwoods, my heart leaping anxiously every time I forgot we were in a vehicle, which was often (there were no bumps on this road). It was curvy, and with every turn I was irrationally convinced we would...