Spring in East Africa

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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

Greetings from CT

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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

Home.

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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

Rappin’ it up-a rap by Hannah and Whitney

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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

…The End of Our East Africa Journey…

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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

meeeeehh room

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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

WHEW!

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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

Last Batch of photos…

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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

Final Entry

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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

La Gon Carpe Diem Fall 2010!

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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

Final words

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Final Goodbye Part 2

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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

Final Goodbye

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Archive Southeast Asia- SABAI
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Roatan Baby!… But We Ain’t Rowin’ yet!

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You know that warm fuzzy feeling you get in the pit of your stomach when your dive instructor tells you it’s time to take off your mask, especially when you know there’s a four foot barracuda circling the group… Scuba Diving is intense, some would say (and by that I mean Shayna sitting next to me) horrifying, but ultimately it is the feeling of experiencing a whole new underwater world.  We… Read More

More from Zanzibar!

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Hello again! We are taking advantage of the close-by Internet cafes to squeeze in a few more blogs before the semester ends… Today, the divers completed the underwater portion of the scuba certification process, while others did cultural things around the amazing island of Zanzibar. I (Zoe) was part of the diving group, while Vicki did the Spice tour and checked out some museums, so we’ll each have good input… Read More

Freeeeeee Travvvvlin

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Greetings blog readers, worried parents, friends of friends and creatures, space aliens of all kinds. We left off in McCloud gang in the wintery little village of the daliest lama and took a day train to bikaner. Avery quaint little desert town, we arrived late at night and not a creature was stirring, only wild dogs sniffing through garbage. We turned our attention towards our hotel, my bloodstained sheets and… Read More