Archives: Fellow Updates

An introduction to Ecuador

Rene Ramos

2017-12-29

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Voluntourism – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Wyatt Foster

2017-12-29

The concept of voluntourism has been debated about for many years. Opinions on the issue vary from the belief that it is another way for white people to exploit developing countries, to people who believe that exposure to other cultures will cause progress in terms of international development. While in the past, I’ve tended to...

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Missing Home

Bryneth Fuller

2017-12-25

I miss America. I miss the nature so nearby with a forest an hour one way and a beach an hour the other. I miss the freedom of its roads connecting each of its cities like a lifeline. That feeling of driving down the highway with nothing but myself and some money for gas. I...

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A Christmas Misfortune

Jordan Kendall

2017-12-25

For those of you that enjoy reading about unfortunate events, this one’s for you. The holidays as we know it are a time of giving, gratitude, and spending time with family. I was hoping to achieve all of these as I anxiously waited for my family to come visit me.  Ever since three months prior,...

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The Road Taken

Richard Hoang

2017-12-24

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy...

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A short entertaining story

Sophie Winter

2017-12-23

The scene is set. We were driving home after seeing the fluffiest, poofiest, biggest dog I have ever seen. His name was Konan, and I was given the opportunity to visit him at his home at the end of a rickety road on the top of a mountain. After I had given him hugs and...

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Sama Waa Kerga

Erik Oline

2017-12-20

                My halfway point of my time in Senegal is just days away now; if I blinked I would have missed the past 3.5 months. I figured that by this point I probably should have devoted a bit more of this blog towards my amazing host family, but hey, better late than never. My host...

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