By Overseas Educators Laura & Dan
Hey y’all!
Dan and Laura here. We are finishing up final preparations here in Portland, and super stoked to meet the Carpe South America 2018 students!
We hope with these final days leading up to the trip, students are finishing up final packing preparations, resting, and getting even more excited for a semester filled with learning, community, and awe-filled experience.
We can’t wait to… Read More
By Overseas Educators Kate & Doug
Greetings from staff training in Portland! We have been working hard to prepare for our adventure ahead and are sure that you all have been preparing in your own way for this trip that is right around the corner. The journey we are heading towards is sure to be filled with endless exploration as we wind our way through mountains, crowded cities, villages, street… Read More
By Overseas Educators Anya & Peter
Greetings from staff training in Portland!
A big welcome to the friends and families that will be following our journey over the coming months. We are eager to begin our journey around the South Pacific with you all in just a few short days! We are in the midst of staff training in Portland and have been working hard to prepare for our adventure… Read More
By Overseas Educators Brian & Ellen
Bienvenidos a la familia de Maya! We are super excited to embark upon our semester in Central America with you all! It is hard to believe that we will be leaving on our adventure together in a few short days! We have had the chance to communicate with all of you over the phone and are looking forward to our meet up in person… Read More
By Overseas Educators Suzannah and Rebecca
Namaste Shanti family,
We are about to begin our journey through Northern India together and wanted to take a moment to commend you and acknowledge that taking this step into the world of the unknown is a very courageous thing for each of you. It is our hope that we will all come back from this experience with more open minds, bigger hearts, and… Read More
By Overseas Educators Cari and Frederick
Hey Everyone!
Aisei! Can you believe the future we’ve been stewing on is nearly here? In just a few days we’ll be boarding giant birds and flying together to begin our journey! Both of us, Cari and Frederick, have been camping in a lovely forest outside of Portland, sharing stories and getting ready for our upcoming adventure with all of you. We’re both excited… Read More
By Overseas Educators Sarah and Matt
Hongi Crew!
Our adventure through the South Pacific is almost upon us! Thoughts of this and you and all the beautiful people and places we will soon be exploring have gotten us practically dizzy with excitement. From exploring our dreams under the stars in the Outback, to working side by side with our Fijian homestay families, to planting our feet in the wilds of… Read More
By Overseas Educators Sheldon & Bria
Welcome to the Rayah family! We’re excited to embark on our journey to Spain and Morocco with you all. Very soon we’ll be packing our bags, hugging our friends and heading to New York City to meet you all (Sept. 12, Iberia Airlines counter, Terminal 7, at JFK, right?). Our adventure will include Moorish palaces, permaculture farms, ferry crossings, Arabic lessons, homestays, music festival… Read More
By Overseas Educators Mandy & Adam
Bula! Kia ora! G’day! As we come into our final days of preparation, with our bags packed, our goodbyes said, and our visas secured, we are reminded of the quote from C.S. Lewis (maybe) that states, “only those who risk going too far, will find out how far one can possibly go.”
These coming months are sure to test us as we enter wholeheartedly… Read More
By Overseas Educators Kelsi & Amanda
As seems to happen with these beautiful journeys, while we were in the middle of our days together, time seemed to move slowly and fully, and now that we’re at the end, it’s seemed to have whizzed by. Parting each other has been difficult.
The last few days post-trek we spent in historic Bhaktapur, with the exception of a pilgrimage to Namobuddha on the… Read More
By Emma & Ava
Early in the morning, we took a seven-hour bus ride from Boudha to Pokhara to get to the 3 Sisters Trekking Company guesthouse. 3 Sisters is an all female-run trekking company that empowers young women and works hard to make trekking significantly safer for women travelers. On our first night, we were welcomed with lots of food (dal bhat, obviously), fun, and laughter while we got… Read More
Tristan’s right shoe was never found. It’ll be forever missing in the rice paddies of Kopan. Sophia’s left shoe began to cause her food to bleed. It worked out that the lonely shoe was put to use: Sophia wearing Tristan’s left shoe and her right shoe. It matched her shirt, and she looked astonishing.
We wrapped up our time in Kopan by making our rounds and saying goodbye to all… Read More
Howdy Folks! Tara here (Sophia & Sophia) the power couple and some of the two most valuable members of Tara ;P and we’re here to INFORM you about what is UP! We are dropping some major knowledge/deets here so get hyped up folks!! (Sophia wrote all of this, not Sophia)
We met up in Kathmandu and boy was it crazzaaayy!! The group LOVES each other. We have formed unbreakable bonds… Read More
The Summer in Nepal Alumni orientation has kicked off! Our six alumni students have safely arrived in Nepal and can’t wait to explore Kathmandu.
The crew gathers to take a picture in front of the Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu.… Read More
By Alex Combs
Hello friends and family, this week I have the wonderful opportunity to write the final blog for the Spring 2018 semester. For our final week in South America, we traveled to one of the Seven Wonders of the World: Machu Picchu. To start off the tale of our final journey we must start in Cusco, where we stayed in our lovely hostel Atawakama after our Yoga retreat… Read More
By Executive Director, Jenny Huq
To the Parents of the Nkula Spring 2018 Students,
I have had the pleasure of speaking with some of you before your students departed for East Africa three months ago. Most of you I do not know directly; although, I feel a connection to all of you because I had the incredible opportunity to spend three weeks in Tanzania with your students.
I joined Carpe… Read More
By Overseas Educators Julian and Hannah
24 MINIBUSES
10 PICKUPS
8 BUSES PÚBLICOS
6 AVIONES
4 LANCHAS
That’s right y’all. We moved around a lot this semester.
As a group, we tackled four countries and worked with 11 unique partner organizations. From the early days of scavenger hunting around Xela to taking giant strides off the back of the dive boat in Roatán, it’s been quite a journey.
We could… Read More
By Overseas Educators Rachel & Peter
Sitting on a wooden porch on a rainy afternoon in Nairobi, sipping some soups, we can’t help but notice something: it’s so quiet! Nobody around is playing cards, listening to music, or slurping passion fruit juice. The only other beings around now are just a fluffy golden retriever, an old white lab that seems to be blind, and a needy little cat. We invited… Read More
A hike above Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.A vendor taking a break on the streets of Saigon, Vietnam.Captaining the ship in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.Cave exploration.Exploring Ha Long Bay.Exploring Saigon.Ha Long Bay boat.Ha Long Bay tour.Hiking outside of Nha Trang.Kayak tour of Ha Long Bay.Kayaking in the bay.Local music and dance group in Hanoi.Looking out over Ha Long Bay.… Read More
By Talia
After some wild travel days, we finally made it to Roatan, Honduras for a week full of diving in the beautiful Caribbean Sea. We spent the week diving with West End Divers, coincidentally located on the West End of Roatan. The West End, also known as gringo paradise, is flooded with restaurants, souvenir shops, dive spots and a perfect beach. The end goal of this week was to… Read More
