Shortly after arriving in Philadelphia and settling into Penn's View Hotel, I left the hotel for a stroll. I had no particular destination in mind, I just wanted to check out the area and see what was around.
Teaching in the Marshall Islands: A Post-Decision Narrative
By Jeremy Douglas
June
04
/ 2010
June
04
/ 2010
One of the most important things we can do while travel is to give back, which can happen in a variety of ways. You can buy and stay locally instead of in chain hotels or restaurants. You can volunteer in a community, which is called Voluntourism. International development can be helped greatly by voluntourism, which brings tourist dollars (and help) directly to the community.
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Some young people are unbelievably generous with their time, are almost born altruists. Meet Samm Coffin, a study abroad student at Stellenbosch University, outside of Cape Town, South Africa. While adjusting to a foreign country and taking a full load of courses Samm immediately volunteered to help make a difference including working at an afterschool program and taking hundreds of pictures for Dog Meets World (DMW) at Kayamandi.
June
01
/ 2010
I've got a great resource to share with our Wandering Educators today. Author Stephanie Lee has written a detail-packed book for women traveling solo, called The Art of Solo Travel: A Girls' Guide.
I am pleased to introduce Tracy Dearsan, our June Artist of the Month. Tracy, a native-of-Utah-gone-Californian, designs elaborately beaded jackets that to me have rich, yet renegade feel. Tracy was recently here in Utah and actually modeled two different jackets, but I did not take a picture of her in those jackets! What was I thinking? Yikes!