October 31, 2020
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By Shun To my surprise, in a few days, it will have been two and a half months since I first step foot into Japan. Before my eyes, the hot humid summers, accompanied by shorts, a hand-held fan, and...
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October 29, 2020
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There it stood, arrogant and adamant, heedless of the shrill herald of impending peril. I hastened my pace, smug in the certainty that the sudden acceleration would cow it into capitulation— but it hardly flinched in the face of the...
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By Kayla I’ve been taking dance classes at home since March, training in the kitchen and trying not to knock anything over. This month, I successfully built a floor for a better ballet experience at home. I had never built anything...
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October 27, 2020
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By Leah After a couple of weeks of strict quarantine, I'm all packed up and ready to go for the next part of my gap year! I'll set off early tomorrow morning for the first leg of my four-day...
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October 25, 2020
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By Ray Hi there, This is Ray, and welcome to my third blog. Some say, “shooters shoot;” to that I respond, “bloggers blog”. Since my first blog, I have been working as an intern for Youth Transforming Justice - an...
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By Maia The program I am on is called “Hevruta,” translating to 'partners' in Hebrew. As the only gap year program made half of North Americans and half of Israelis we are a bit of a social experiment. The Israeli...
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October 24, 2020
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By Maya [caption id="attachment_1733" align="alignright" width="430"] My favorite work buddy.[/caption] This last month I started an internship at Renegade, an NYC marketing agency. This was a huge opportunity for me that was realized by reaching out to a Duke alum....
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October 23, 2020
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As my family checked in at the front gates of Yosemite National Park, I began to realize that this was the start of a trip of a lifetime- an odd thing to say in the middle of a global pandemic...
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October 22, 2020
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By Sammy An integral part of life is conversing with new people, making first impressions, and forming relationships. While meeting people is always exciting, after bursting out of a two-week strict quarantine into a crowd of 300 Americans, Latin Americans,...
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October 21, 2020
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By Siddharth I’ve come to the realization - as have most people for whom it is the first pandemic - that it is extremely handy to have a hobby to keep yourself entertained within the constricting 4 walls of your...
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