November 15, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Jake At 6:00 a.m., New York City is still waking up, the streets in my neighborhood empty. I lace my running shoes, knowing that in a few hours I’ll be working with students at The Shefa School and later...
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November 7, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Samuel It’s already been five months of my gap year, and if there’s one thing that’s been drilled into my mind, it’s the idea that I’m really not in control of anything. Sometimes that thought comes almost as a...
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September 5, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Gregory Beginning this past September, I took on the position as the advisor for the East Regional Club for the North Carolina American Red Cross Youth (also written as “RCC East”), helping develop new leaders within the club’s executive...
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August 26, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Ian No matter how much you plan, while traveling, things can always get off track. This was the case at the beginning of my travels through Europe. Before I left home, I entered two piano competitions through Grand Prize...
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August 15, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Marissa I arrived in Turkey mid-September to begin my exchange with AFS intercultural programs. Living and studying here for the past 10 months has been an incredibly rewarding experience full of little adventures and unexpected moments. I’m excited to...
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August 13, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Sanjaay In the first two parts of my blog series on happiness, I wrote about my hiking trip in Nepal and my exploration into Nordic happiness policies in Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The first essay explored the pursuit of...
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August 11, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Alexa For our last show of the season, Ballet Idaho put on Christopher Stowell’s version of The Sleeping Beauty. Although I knew it was going to be challenging, I had no idea how much of an undertaking it would...
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August 10, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Anson Upon returning home in late November, to keep with the theme of horticulture and history, I volunteered at the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory, the second oldest steel-framed-and-glass building still in operation in the United States. Within the conservatory...
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August 8, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
Natasha is a member of the 2023-24 DGYP cohort. This post was written earlier in 2025. [caption id="attachment_5338" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Fireworks during a float parade in Beigang Township / 北港鎮, Taiwan[/caption] In the final two months of my time in...
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August 3, 2025
By: Camey VanSant
By Ella When I left on my nine-month journey across the world, with nothing but a backpack and a heart of service, I had no idea what lay ahead or what would come from my time on the mission field....
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