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Safe arrival

Quetzal Overseas Educators Central America- QUETZAL
Hooray, the QUETZAL group has arrived safely to Guatemala! They are making their way to Earthlodge Eco Hostel, where they will spend the next few days in orientation. They’ll learn more about one another, the program, and Guatemala, as well as strategies for staying safe and healthy while traveling. They will post another blog here early next week to share about their first few days together, and then every 7-10… Read More

On their way!

Terra Overseas Educators Italy & Greece - TERRA
Hooray, all the members of the Italy & Greece TERRA group have arrived safely to JFK and are gathered together as a group for the first time. They are looking forward to getting to know one another and are ready to start their journey. We wish them safe and easy travels to Rome! We will post another blog when we’ve received word they have arrived safely in Italy.… Read More

Sabai Sabai

Sabai Overseas Educators Southeast Asia- SABAI
Sabai, Sabai Thailand, the Land of Smiles, and temples, rice paddies, forest villages, and tuk-tuks, pad thai and iced tea, farms and families, and soon a Carpe Diem group called Sabai. And on to Cambodia… big rivers and orange sunsets, markets and circuses, creativity and yearning, and in the jungle a lost ancient city found again.   Unbelievable. Less than week from now, if all goes according to plan, Sabai will… Read More

Hola Group Quetzal!

Quetzal Overseas Educators Central America- QUETZAL
Hola amigos! Matt and Mara, this Fall’s Quetzal OEs, coming at you from Carpe Diem HQ in Portland, Oregon! We are incredibly excited for the upcoming semester and all the adventures that await us all. Our days at training have been filled with rich conversations, planning time, and plenty of laughter and games. We have been enjoying this time to reconnect with the greater Carpe community and prepare for the… Read More

Hello Group Aloha!

Aloha Overseas Educators Hawai'i - ALOHA
Hello parents and students alike from Forrest and Stace, Carpe Diem’s Fall 2022 Hawai’i OEs! We write to you from Carpe Diem staff training in sunny (for the most part) Portland, Oregon. Here we find ourselves working to put the finishing touches on our upcoming adventure together, getting to know each other better, as well as relaxing, recharging, and having some much needed fun! With just under one week until… Read More

Hello Group Terra!

Terra Overseas Educators Italy & Greece - TERRA
Hello parents and students alike from Megan and Adam, Carpe Diem’s Fall 2022 Italy and Greece trip leaders! We write you from Carpe Diem staff training in sunny (for the most part) Portland, Oregon. Here we find ourselves working to put the finishing touches on our upcoming adventure together, getting to know each other better, as well as relaxing, recharging, and having some much needed fun! With just over one… Read More

Yoga Studies In Peru

carpediem Latitudes Year
Written By Gracie, Latitudes Year ’22 Peru I started my semester on February 21 in Cusco Peru, at Pachananda retreat center. I started my first few days acclimatizing to over 11,000 feet. I am from New York, so the first culture shock was most definitely the difficulties breathing. For my first week I drank chlorophyll in my water to help oxygenate myself and increase my red blood cell count. Such… Read More

Hasta La Proxima

Maya Overseas Educators Central America- MAYA
Written By OEs, Soumya & Ryan To our lovely readers who have followed along all this way, gracias! It’s your favorite OE team, Soumya and Ryan, despidiendonos from the sweet concrete jungle that is San José. Yesterday, we said our final adios to our Carpe crew who have been our family and friends for the last three months (complete with obligatory and very fashionable white bucket hats). As we close… Read More

Permacultura

Maya Overseas Educators Central America- MAYA
Written By Erin & Jane Buenos dias todos! With less than a week less of this epic adventure, let’s look back at what the previous week brought! We begin at the lovely permaculture farm, Villas Mastatal, and learned about the importance of working with the earth’s ecosystem, how to make compost, and how to plant almond trees, while getting to experience the power of Costa Rican rain storms! Next it’s… Read More

The Waves Of Life In Lobitos

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Written By Flannery, Latitudes Year ’22 Peru I started my time in Lobitos with three goals: 1. Become conversational in Spanish 2. Learn to surf a short board 3. Make one good friend Not only were all three of those accomplished with surprising success, but the community of Lobitos (or as I like to call it, Loveitos) revealed to me hundreds of unexpected gifts. Working with Waves for Development has… Read More

A hui hou kākou!

Aloha Overseas Educators Hawai'i - ALOHA
Written By OEs, Mara & Cahill Hey Campers. This wild ride had to come to an end at some point, turns out that was last week! This time spent learning from our numerous kipunas, our crash course in living a life filled with kupono, and singing our oli everywhere we went cannot be summed up with words on a screen. To all those reading these very words, know that these… Read More

Wynndow Into Our Experience

Aloha Overseas Educators Hawai'i - ALOHA
Written By Wynn & Emily It’s officially our last week on the program, and by the time friends and family read this, most of us in the group will probably be in the air or already landed at home. It is a very bittersweet ending, with everyone sad to say goodbye and also excited to see their loved ones again after seventy days. The past week was very full, with… Read More

Ciao Italia!!! Ciao Terra!!

Terra Overseas Educators Italy & Greece - TERRA
Written By OEs Rachael & Adam Greetings Terra family, friends, and fans! This is the final blog by your OE’s Rachael & Adam. It has been an honor herding your kiddos through airports and train stations for the last couple months! We have shared many a laugh, lots of gelato, weird dance experiences in a yurt, some tears, and met and loved many donkeys along the way. We started in… Read More

Choose Your Own Storyline!! (Kinda)

Terra Overseas Educators Italy & Greece - TERRA
Written By Riley START It is raining outside. The campfire is smoldering. Two of us help our Irish contact, Colm prepare breakfast in the outdoor kitchen. The rest of us sit on the outside tables, in the yurt, or huddled around the campfire, waving off the smoke. We eat delicious chestnut pancakes (made with Paladini’s own supply of chestnut flour), scrambled eggs (not without lack of eggshells), and Colm’s delicious… Read More

Pura Vida

Maya Overseas Educators Central America- MAYA
Written by Hunter & Maddie Hello friends! Hunter and Maddie here for the weekly blog We started the week off in Turrialba finishing up our Spanish classes. Mastatal represents one of our final weeks here in Central America. For most of us, the past 3 months have represented a time of hardship and new experiences, and from that, a time of growth. Everyone here has learned and grown whether it… Read More

Student Directed Travel

Aloha Overseas Educators Hawai'i - ALOHA
Written By Gigi & Delia This week Mara and Cahill were dismissed from scheduling obligations and joined the chicken ranks for our student led travel week! Dun dun dun!!!! Destined to be the most chaotic but definitely not lacking in fun, we started our week by wrapping up our time in Miloli’i. The group participated in a town hearing to push forward legislation proposed by the village to protect 18… Read More

Diving In The Dominican Republic

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Written By Kaeley, Latitudes Year ’22 Dominican Republic Hello all! The last 2 months I’ve spent in the Dominican Republic have been a blast. Can’t wait to share with you! I am staying in the quaint ocean town of Bayahibe, and through Carpe Diem have been diving with Coral Point Dive Shop. On a typical day I go on 2-3 dives starting early in the morning, then go home to… Read More