It’s been roughly two weeks since Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 campaign and video went viral. The video has sparked a flurry of status updates, tweets, articles, and video responses. (see see here,…
A Week for Human Rights
It started off on Tuesday, November 8th as my local professional sorority, Kappa Gamma Chi, sponsored Emerson’s First Annual Amnesty International Write-a-Thon. Amnesty International is a global human rights movement,…
Volunteering: Who, Why and Where
Volunteering is confusing. There is no doubt about that! As mentioned in my previous article, I hope to detangle the web of a million questions you ask yourself when tackling…
The Complicated World of Volunteering
In one of the ongoing arguments across numerous boards of thought, volunteering is always going to produce mixed responses of opinion. Is it a good thing, or can it destroy…
It’s All About Inspiration!
Funny the Way it Is by Dave Matthews Band (One of the most inspiring songs I know!) …10 weeks on since returning to the Western world and I’m still thinking…
How to be a Cheapskate… Overseas
I’m a cheapskate. Honestly. For many people, the words cheapskate and traveling have no place beside one another in a sentence, but I’ve made it work, and have made it…
How to Choose a Gap Year: A Buyers Guide!
Google ‘gap years’ (as I do….ALOT!) and you will find yourself entering the sometimes shady but always inspirational world of overseas volunteering. Hundreds of different and equally worthy looking NGO’s,…
Why The 2010 UK University Admissions Debacle may be the Best Thing to Happen to Gap Years in….Years!
Those of you living outside the UK may have missed the ‘media storm’ surrounding the woefully shrunken economy and the effect it’s having on University admissions this summer but for…
Alice’s adventures in a Venezuelan Wonderland, Part 2.
Day 4: Well it’s been Bye Bye beaches and Hola hilltops & coffee haciendas the past two days as we’ve left the comfy confines of Playa Colorada behind for the…
Alice’s Adventures in a Venezuelan Wonderland, Part One
Those of you who read my last blog will be aware that after muchos hours in airports, muchos missed flights and muchos muchos miscommunication I FINALLY found myself in sunny…
Jazz Time
It’s spring break 2010 and I’m cruising around New Orleans in a big white van full of friends. “And I think that was our turn that we just passed…” I…