Carissa Osborne, a student from Auburn University, shares her experiences abroad on the GO Rome program in her blog below. Check it out! Learning Beyond the Classroom Week 1- Kelsey, Taylor, and Kennedy split us up into our core groups for our first lesson of the trip. I was tired, I was jetlagged, I was … Continue Reading »
Elena Bagatelas is a student at the University of Tennessee and joined us on LEAD Cape Town this summer. Read below to hear about how service week led to her shift in perspective and attitude towards the traditional idea of community service. Service Week Service (noun): the action of helping or doing work for someone … Continue Reading »
Kathryn Greenstone, a student from Miami University, shares our first student blog from GO Barcelona. Her story recounts the breaking news from Nice over the weekend and ends on a powerful message. Dear Nice, Love Barcelona Dear Nice, I am a study abroad student writing to you from Barcelona, alongside 53 other extremely excited Barcelona-based … Continue Reading »
Today’s blog comes from Tori Gleeson, a student from Georgia College. Read about her journey of self-discovery through moments big and small while attending LEAD Greece! My Defining Moment Before coming abroad, I looked forward to my defining moment. I anticipated this climactic instant in time when suddenly I would be a changed woman with a … Continue Reading »
While our summer has shifted to our LEAD programs in Cape Town and Greece, let’s throwback to our DIRECT crew with this blog from Cape Town student Crystal Yabes. Crystal attends the University of Arizona and gives some insight to the powerful moments shared on the two-week DIRECT Cape Town experience. Why DIRECT Cape Town? … Continue Reading »
Today’s post comes to us from Shannon Listman from Rowan University. We often say that “life begins at the end of your comfort zone” and it sounds like Shannon really took that to heart during her time in Cape Town. Thanks for sharing, Shannon! Five Ways I Got Out of my Comfort Zone in … Continue Reading »
Jonathan Lewis, a student at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, gives us a peak into the incredible food of Greece! To jumpstart my summer, I have the opportunity to travel with a program called LeadAbroad to Greece (I am still in Athens while writing this). This program specializes in leadership development, adventuring and … Continue Reading »
What better way to experience a new place than to step out of your comfort zone? Cait Carlson is on DIRECT Cape Town and took her adventure to a new level: Hey y’all! My name is Cait and I’ll be a senior at Wake Forest next fall. Long story short – I decided to … Continue Reading »
Zach Hogue was a student on LEAD Cape Town 2011. In one of the pictures in this post, you may recognize Cape Town student and intern Chris Kasuya: they were roommates! Zach’s experience with LeadAbroad inspired him to found a company called Ambos, a high-quality leather boot company that is committed to producing high-quality boots and economic empowerment for … Continue Reading »
What comes to mind when you think “winter vacation?” Skiing in Vail? An Alaskan cruise? Ice skating in Rockefeller Center in New York? Walking the cold, snowy streets of Paris or Geneva or London in a peacoat? Us, too, don’t get us wrong…but there are so many hidden gems in this world that are a travel … Continue Reading »