Hola, from your very enthusiastic trip leaders, Simone and Ari!!
This blog is a place for you to post photos, tell stories and share your experiences with friends and family back home. Send your loved ones this link so they can see and read about the places that your adventurous spirit is taking you.
Throughout our semester, each of you will have the opportunity to post to this blog, documenting… Read More
Bula, from your very enthusiastic trip leaders, Karen and Cliff!
This blog is a place for you to post photos, tell stories and share your experiences with friends and family back home. Send your loved ones this link so they can see and read about the places that your adventurous spirit is taking you.
Throughout our semester, each of you will have the opportunity to post to this blog, documenting… Read More
Lotti and Benji signing in! As many of you know, we have been here at the office in Portland for the past couple of weeks preparing for our upcoming trip in India, though, in reality, nothing will ever prepare anyone for India. We say this with the upmost affection, excitement, and reverence for such a beautifully chaotic and chaotically beautiful place.We look forward so much to meeting face to face… Read More
Hello Team Africa! We hope all of your preparations are going well for our upcoming adventure and that this introductory blog entry finds you all well. This blog will be a very useful way to tell the story of our trip to your friends and loved ones, so please pass this address on to them or tell them how to find it through the Carpe Diem website’s blog link. Allison… Read More
Better late than never, right? I miss you all so much! This is me in my room with my dog Jake. It has been snowing a lot here. This is me and my dog Romeo in front of our house.
Just to keep you all updated, Natalie and I are leaving for India on January 31st. Also, I’m going to Greece for 3 months starting on March 7th. I hope… Read More
So we now come closer to the two week mark of the end of our trip through Fiji New Zealand, and Australia. To some of us it might feel like it was all a dream, composed of beautiful landscapes, wonderful scenarios, crazy, and sometimes inappropriate, characters, and of course, fried shapes. Coming back home can be like waking up from a dream. Suddenly we realize many of the responsibilities awaiting… Read More
Whats up everybody! I miss you all like crazy. I’m saying we start talking about the reunion in Hawaii… This is me in my room on my sleeping bed. Meet my puppy Toby! he’s an angel.… Read More
So here’s the story from point A to BYou gonna get the DL from H-Dub and WinnieIt all began the 15th of SeptemberA day so far back its hard to rememberWe’ve come a long way since that fateful dayAnd created our stories along the wayAin’t no secret that at first we were shyBut shortly after those feelings passed us byNow we is a family tight as can beWe’ve learned to… Read More
This is my new puppy Oakley!
We rescued him from Georgia, at a puppy adoption day! My pack is still on the floor.. missing you all and
Merry Christmas!
Love Natals… Read More
These past three and a half months have been an incredible journey for all of us. It was a journey where each of us became best friends through all the challenges, scary moments, exciting times and pee in our pants laugh out loud moments :)We enjoyed every experience across East Africa and have all come out of this experience in our own way, transformed from trying new things, challenging ourselves,… Read More
HEY EVERYONE i would just like to say that im glad to be home, heres a picture of my messy room. its not a great picture of my face but hey the picture below explains why i feel that way. great to be home and sledding, but that still dosnt make 5 degrees any warmer!
miss you guys! happy holidays!
-mia… Read More
Last Blog…We’ve come to the end of the road and it’s been quite a journey! Hopefully you all are catching some much needed rest and relaxation. We hope the transition into USA proper is going smoothly and gently. Go easy on yourself and take the occasional nap!It looks like this:May you live what you’ve learned and learn to live! You all have impressed so many people, including Andy and… Read More
So you want to scroll from the bottom up… We last left off with photos from Lake Titicaca to the end of the road. Last Group Photo at the airport in Cusco, love you all! Ah the glories of no-shave November!Coming Down! Flying high!The Nut…Cave adventures with Emma and Anna!The Condor from Huanapichu Andy Bemis!We made it!!! Beautiful, magical Machu Piccu! Great View looking at… Read More
It has been a fabulous last week here in beautiful and sunny Cairns. We spent our week getting scuba certified in the classroom for two days and then off onto our overnight live-aboard on the Kangaroo Explorer. During our dives, we spotted much colorful wildlife including clown fish, many types of coral, sea turtles, sharks, manta rays, sting rays, sea cucumbers, and many more. It was a very exciting trip… Read More
To our Carpe Diem family of 3 months: we wish you continued learning, increasing tolerance, unending passion, continuous questioning, the strength to fight oppression, the ability to smile in the face of adversary, the ability to digest your food til you die, solid nights of sleep and, of course, good hair days…Goodbye Carpe Diem SE Asia ’10! We’ll miss you!… Read More
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Hello to everyone out there for the last time!
We’ve finally reached the end of this crazy journey. Here’s a quick recap of the last few weeks:
After the elephant village, the group headed up to Vang Vieng To do a kayaking… Read More
So, after further consideration, we thought it might be appropriate to tell you a little more about our experience in Central America. As we sat and looked out at the ocean over dinner last night reminiscing about the time we spent together hysterically laughing, pushing buses through flooded rivers, living with various Central American families, and braving horrifying outhouses we realized how much we have grown and learned from each… Read More
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Fortunately for all of you we, Sarah and Katrina, are the group’s final bloggers. Since we have spent the entire trip fantasizing about all the food that would be available to us when we get home and have been food vacuum… Read More
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After a short comfy ride we found ourselves nestled amongst the gradually rising and descending hilltops along the outskirts of Luang Prabang to partake in Shangri Lao, our next expedition. After debriefing the previous night as to what the program entailed and the schedule we would be… Read More
