My trip of personal growth

My trip of personal growth

Global Service Scholar: Joey Lattarulo Country: Thailand A day in my life here has changed quite a bit in the last week. Throughout my first two weeks, I would awake every morning to my medical intern roommate getting ready to head to the hospital. I’d then proceed...

Daily Life in Chiang Mai

Global Service Scholar: Asal Yunusova Country: Thailand I am currently volunteering at the children’s home project. We have the mornings to ourselves, so on a typical day I wake up to cook breakfast or go out to eat at a nearby café. I currently live in the new...

A Day in the Life of a Saltpond Obroni…

Global Service Scholar: Iman Hanif Country: Ghana I have been in Ghana for 3 weeks now, and I love it. I live in Saltpond, a small town about two hours west of the capital city, Accra, with the Yawson family. We live in a complex with multiple single rooms outside the...

Crossing the Borders of my Comfort Zone

Global Service Scholar: Kimberly Haagenson Country: Peru I embarked on this journey with a number of preconceived ideas about everything from international travel to personal introspection. Over the course of this trip, many of these notions have been challenged and...

Imagination vs. Reality

Global Service Scholar: Matthew Lightner Country: Thailand What always surprises me about traveling to a new country is how far removed the reality of the new place is from the pictures I have seen and from my imagination. I imagined Chiang Mai, Thailand to be a sort...