One of our beloved Global Routes program leaders, Nicole Sheldon-Desjardins, conducted her graduate research on the impact of the gap year experience on Global Routes gap year alumni. This was an exciting opportunity for our alumni to contribute to exciting research about the increasingly popular choice to seek educational experiences outside of the classroom and
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Catazacon A lot has happened since the last time we wrote…Although Hannah went solo for a few days at the school because Elena had some stomach issues, everything went smoothly. We completed “The Family” unit in our English classes as well as continued with after school community sessions. As for our independent project, we attended
Ecuador Teaching Internship: Updates from our Communities! Read More »
Here’s the latest update based on our phone conversation with Laurel: The chimpanzee tracking in Kibale National Park was great! We saw a lot of chimps and heard their calls. We could get as close as about 10 feet before they scampered off. We did the tracking just in time too, because as soon as
Elena and I had a very busy weekend in Catazacon. It started with us traveling to the river (about a 30 minute walk) with a few of our oldest students and spending the afternoon swimming and diving. Our students showed us the ropes in fruit picking on our way back to the village…We’ve found
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