About two months ago I was offered a job with Thinking Beyond Borders (http://www.thinkingbeyondborders.org/) to lead a group of fifteen gap year students around the world, along with two other staff members. The students have all just graduated high school, and deferred college for a year to do something very different: travel, engage in public service, and learn about issues in development first hand. My role is to co-teach a seminar, advise and mentor, and help out our in-country partners.
In the last two months I've had to get extra pages for the passport, get multiple vacines and prescriptions (rabies was the worst), read everything assigned to the students, try to finish a seperate research project on wetlands ecology, put most of my stuff into storage, and selectively pack for ten months on the road. After two weeks of intensive staff training in Vermont, I've taken the Labor Day weekend off to see my family in DC. On September 9th, I will fly-first stop Costa Rica!
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