So, Are You Excited for College?: Gap Year Week ?

So, am I excited for college? Yes. No. Maybe. I don't know.

Family Time: Gap Year Week 44

I’ve grown up an international millennial, across three homes and four schools. Across this gap year, little has remained constant: country to country, house to house. It's this family I’ll fall back on, always.

Trusting Wild Ideas: Gap Year Week 43

Bangalore feels very remote from here.

On Top of the World: Gap Year Week 40

"In a landscape characterized by its tight-knit isolation, where things change, literally, glacially if at all, the transient population of tourists are the ones with the impacts that linger far beyond their ephemeral visits."

Communi-tea: Gap Year Week 39

"This was probably the longest time I was staying somewhere this small."

Rosary: Gap Year Week 38

“In every direction something loomed; it was easy to think us pioneers, completely alone in a landscape nearly ethereal.” Life on the pasture.

The Climb: Gap Year Week 37

Those peaks would be 6000 meters high—the length of a cross country race run vertically away my island-bound comprehension. I shivered at the thought, and at the knowledge soon I would be there, too, above it all.

Time and Tourism: Gap Year Week 35

15 minutes in Bosnia, King’s Landing, and beyond.

Coming Home: Gap Year Week 32

“I began my gap year wanting only to travel.”

Cowardice in the Reedbeds: Gap Year Week 31

"Deep down I find nothing but a quiet naïve belief that everything will pan out. My hands can hold all the things I need."