the green chest

Category: Travel

  • On France and Transformation

    How do I possibly sum up the last month? C’est pas possible. (One of the French’s favorite phrases, I believe.) It was crazy and painful and magical and everything I wanted it to be. Our students are amazing. So curious, so open, so independent. Not completely at first, though. The one word I wanted to…

  • The Time is Now (!)

    Friends! The time is here. Tomorrow at 9AM, I’ll be off to Vermont for training with EIL, marking the first trip in my personal travel season. (That’s an inside joke… with myself. “Travel season” is the industry term in the college admissions arena for visiting crazy amounts of high school fairs. I just wrapped up…

  • The Top 11 Moods of an American High Schooler in Europe (circa 2003)

    More travel news, friends! I found out this past week that I’ve been selected to lead a group of high school students to France through The Experiment for three weeks this summer. I couldn’t be more excited! As I was looking for the good ol’ passport, I came across a box of photo albums with…