November 15, 2020
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By Christina Like the entirety of my year thus far, the past few weeks of my gap year never would have been a part of my pre-pandemic plan. When I thought about traveling on a gap year, I thought international...
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November 13, 2020
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By Lizzy As an avid traveller and a French student of seven years, I have always dreamed of studying abroad in Paris. Though I knew that travelling during the coronavirus would make for a very different trip than I had...
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November 8, 2020
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By Abby To say a lot has happened in the last five weeks would be an understatement. I spent four days in the desert meeting 70 Israelis; I spent Shabbat at an American friend’s house; I moved into my apartment...
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November 1, 2020
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By Matthew Ancient Hawaiians would split up land into pie slices starting at the top of the mountain and running all the way to the ocean, and each pie slice would be a town. The slices had enough resources to...
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[caption id="attachment_1713" align="alignright" width="310"] Another great thing about having time to myself this fall is that I don’t worry as much about having to get up to go do something if my cat falls asleep on me! Snore away, buddy....
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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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