August 22, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Katarina When people heard I was going spend three months in Moldova, the immediate response was always one of the following: “Ahhhhh, you mean ____” (insert any other country/region that starts with an M–Maldives, Morocco, Moravia, etc.), “why Moldova?”,...
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August 15, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Charlie J After many months of international travel, exploring new cultures, meeting new friends, and seeing new things, I returned home to Colorado halfway through July. My first few hours back in the country were a culture shock I...
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By: Camey VanSant
By Katarina “Wake up! Breakfast is ready,” says a voice from outside our tent. It is 11:00 pm. I shake my tentmate awake, slip on my soaking wet hiking boots, and unzip the tent. I am already wearing my winter...
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August 12, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Anna This year I was elected to represent my youth organisation at the congress of the International Federation of Liberal Youth in the Ivory Coast. There were young people from all over the world - including Israel, Western and...
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August 10, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Charlie C There are just some things that make you feel safe, comfortable and truly at home. For me, that has always been my family and my friends in NY. I had never left this bubble for more than...
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August 8, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Natasha August – October 2023 [caption id="attachment_4445" align="alignnone" width="500"] View from airplane on San Francisco-Taipei flight[/caption] Preparation, Reflection, and Goal Setting In preparation for my gap year, late August was spent preparing and reflecting. While trying to fit my...
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August 5, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Alessandra Welcome back to my gap year excursions! The past few weeks have been so incredible with starting in Paris for a few days walking the city, exploring the small and old towns in the South of France, and...
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August 3, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Katie As I was sitting down to write my last blog, I came in with the goal of summing up everything I did this past year into one nice story with an overarching message, and I could think of…nothing....
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August 2, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Jiaheng The arrival of Spring symbolizes the end of a frosty, barren winter and the arrival of new beginnings. Awakened from months-long hibernation, earthly creatures begin roaming the Earth in search of sustenance, while the countryside bursts into kaleidoscopic...
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July 23, 2024
By: Camey VanSant
By Anna Yay! You’re 18 now! Not having fully processed that, I still moved to Brussels the next day to start my internship at the office of the Vice President of the European Parliament in Brussels - all by myself....
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