GAP YEAR PROGRAMS BLOG

Meet Karl, an alum of our Global Gap Year program in 2013!  After his year abroad with Thinking Beyond Borders, he attended American University to study International Studies.  Karl now works at the Obama Foundation on the Girls Opportunity Alliance!  Keep reading for his interview. This photo was taken in Livingston, Guatemala in a local

Meeting your host family for the first time can be a nerve-wracking experience.  Are they going to like you?  Are you going to like them?  What tools will you use to communicate across the cultural and language barriers?  How will you adjust your lifestyle to this new household?  Although it’s scary, host families are so

Meet Tess! Tess is an alumna of our Latin America Gap Semester of Fall 2018.  After her semester with Thinking Beyond Borders, she continued traveling and is planning on attending Scripps College next Fall to major in linguistics, environmental policy, Spanish, or something social justice-related.   How has your gap experience influenced/contributed to your academic

Meet Brennan! Brennan is an alum of our Latin America Gap Semester 2011 program.  After his semester with Thinking Beyond Borders, he then went on to attend Franklin and Marshall College where he majored in Creative Writing with a minor in Geoscience.  He now works as a Land Program Coordinator for Canyonlands Field Institute.  Read

Meet Erika! Erika is an alumna of our Global Gap Year 2014.  After her gap year she went on to Trinity College where she studied African Studies, Human Rights, and Arabic (wow!).  She now works for WorldStrides as an Account Manager.  WorldStrides is an industry leader in international education and Erika says, “I get to