Seize the Day - Seize the Journey - Seize your Life 3-month semesters abroad and overseas designed for college students, GAP year students, and high school seniors.

Central America
Guatemalan Kids
Southeast Asia
Thai Buddhist Monk
Australia
Great Barrier Reef

Carpe Diem's programs are designed to safely challenge every student. Our students - through service, travel, community, and cultural exchange - receive a unique and personal insight into themselves and the cultures they live within while also giving back through service in every country we travel. Our leaders are trained to facilitate personal growth and learning within the structure of an academic semester: this combination has proven the best way to open the eyes of Carpe Diem students to the forgotten side of the developing world. We challenge our students by consciously teaching them how to be better group leaders; better self-leaders; and how to safely travel independently anywhere in the world.

Our students are challenged to open their minds to different ways that cultures live very similar lives. We all eat, we all sleep, we all want to be happy, and we all are searching for meaning. How these things are expressed in different cultures are both more similar and more different than most could ever imagine.

Latitudes Year