Cathay Pacific 770 just took off carrying our group towards Hong Kong on the way to be reunited with family and home. Amidst tearful goodbyes, we stopped to show off the perfected squat we’ve been developing over three months moving through......Read More
I went into this trip hoping to explore what it meant to be an Earth Human. I wanted to transcend being a blonde human, an American human, a female human, and learn what it meant to simply be human. I hoped living with Indonesians and submerging......Read More
We arrive in Sampela after spending a few nights in western-style hotels, travel weary and excited to meet our final homestay families. Sampela is initially a very alien place; rickety wooden boardwalks wind through stilted houses, and the ocean......Read More
This trip truly meant the world to me… Throughout my life my teachers and friends have always refered to themselves and myself as “American citizens” (I do not disagree, the quotes are to provide a point). A few years back I began......Read More
Dear Fall 2018 Indonesia Semester Families, It is hard to believe that 3 months have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are sure you are......Read More
Some fun pics from the group’s time in Bira....Read More
Learning how to be a more contributing, inclusive, caring member of the group. Everything is so complicated! Therefore so many sides to one issue. Everything, every place, every action is so connected to everything else. Feeling, thinking,......Read More
Think it could be very hard going home to all the things we established are now in our panic zones that were once parts of our lives and values before we came here, but keep in mind there are still 15 relationships that are still just as strong......Read More
I fear forgetting the insights and memories I’ve cultivated – be it my little homestay sister’s rapturous laughter, or how to be fully at peace in quiet moments of solitude, unencumbered by self scrutiny and external expectations, life, man.......Read More
Our time could not be bought with my Ibu. I miss you Ibu. To whom it may consume, soon I will skip school, I will move to see you, our time will bloom. There will be no red rule, we can get matching tattoo, We can eat sate every night, You and I......Read More
I was going to start off by saying I wish I knew more bahasa Indonesia during my stay in Jogja. It would have allowed for more conversation but I think our limited communication made our relationship that much more special. We surprised each other.......Read More
You really felt like mine Packing me mango slices in a lunchbox Washing dishes side by side after the house grew quiet Teaching me to make sambal With a mortar and pestle and extra spicy chillies I hear the oil sizzling and popping At 4 am The soft......Read More
I am awoken by a symphony; shrieking children, yelling conversations, the thunder of footsteps, chickens screaming… I moan, roll off my mat, and stumble out of my room into the kitchen. I creep outside onto our woven bamboo porch, where I find......Read More
Hello family and friends of our Indonesia Fall Dragons! I just wanted to update you that the team have left their aquatic homestay in Sampela and are now on route to their final destiantion (Bira) where they will wrap up their course. The group now......Read More
