I’m so glad I picked up that piece of trash. I was a junior at the hyper-competitive Boston Latin School and I was racing down the hall to my next class. I hated the drudgery of my high school life and its monomaniacal focus on getting into college, I had virtually no intellectual or political passions, […]
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What do you do when you aren’t leading programs with Global Routes? I teach high school journalism and English in Bend, OR. When I am not teaching I race bikes competitively around the NW and nationally. I also coach a high school cyclocross team as well as some jr cyclocross racers and help coach a
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“Seeing lions devour a wildebeest,” “Experiencing Masai culture,” “Trying new foods and learning some words in Swahili and Luhya,” “The warm community welcome in Shisango,” “Seeing the effect of a finished classroom on the community.” These and many other highlights from our students in the Kenya programs inspired me to take my own trip to
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Stay tuned from notes from the field from our Costa Rica Teaching Interns! The group departs on February 21.
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Last week I returned from spending 10 days in Morocco. I had had a great desire to go since I heard lots about the country from Julia Flum-Stockwell, a woman who as a high school student 20 some odd years ago had done the Global Routes Zimbabwe program, and now years later had gone on
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