Global Explorers Blog: State Department
You’re Going to Cambodia! How Does it Feel? — Part 1
As many of you know, Global Explorers was awarded the fortunate opportunity to allow thirty students the chance of a lifetime to travel to Cambodia this June thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of State. A whopping 298 incredible students applied from across the nation in hopes that they would be able to take part in this immersive adventure. After months of preparation, application madness, lengthy interviews and the grueling process of having to choose a limited number of participants, Jordy was finally ready to inform the lucky thirty students that they had been selected to take part in the American Youth Leadership Program. As you can imagine, the student’s elation was overwhelming!
To launch our first series of student blogs, Jordy offered the AYLP team the chance to write an entry, if they so desired. The question – a seemingly simple one: What does it feel like to be chosen to participate in the American Youth Leadership Program to Cambodia? The response – some exceedingly vivid descriptions that only the happiest of students could have concocted. This week we will be putting up some of the entries we received – here are two of them:
Share on Facebook Post to Twitter Posted by Administrator · March 23, 2011 · cambodia, state department, students
You’re Going to Cambodia! How Does it Feel? — Part 2
As many of you know, Global Explorers was awarded the fortunate opportunity to allow thirty students the chance of a lifetime to travel to Cambodia this June thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of State. A whopping 298 incredible students applied from across the nation in hopes that they would be able to take part in this immersive adventure. After months of preparation, application madness, lengthy interviews and the grueling process of having to choose a limited number of participants, Jordy was finally ready to inform the lucky thirty students that they had been selected to take part in the American Youth Leadership Program. As you can imagine, the student’s elation was overwhelming!
To launch our first series of student blogs, Jordy offered the AYLP team the chance to write an entry, if they so desired. The question – a seemingly simple one: What does it feel like to be chosen to participate in the American Youth Leadership Program to Cambodia? The response – some exceedingly vivid descriptions that only the happiest of students could have concocted. Earlier this week we put up the first part of the student blog series with entries from two of our awesome AYLP participants. Here are another two excellent entries that we had to share with you:
