Anja C. 2019 Fellow
This summer I am working at my climbing gym as an instructor for kids camps, parties, and adult classes. I am also coaching our Advanced Youth Team. At the end of summer I will be a Support Staff at a camp that I have volunteered at for a number of years. From September to December I am going to Spain to start working towards my main goal: to end the year being bilingual in Spanish. Before it gets cold, I want to spend some time Sailing in the Mediterranean to work towards my Skippers License. I am then going up into the Pyrenees to teach at a very isolated community run school. There I will stay with one of the families who helps to run the school, while teaching, helping on their farm, and hopefully getting involved in their small business of installing solar panels. Because it is extremely secluded and I don’t want to isolate myself, I will only spend about a month with them then leave for some currently unplanned adventure elsewhere in Spain and or Europe until mid December. I will go home to England for Christmas to spend time with my family.
For the second semester, I am enrolled in a course partnered with the High Mountain Institute and Where There Be Dragons. The Andes Leadership Adventure is a rugged 3 month trip in Peru and Patagonia. Its focus is Spanish immersion, cultural inquiry, independent study, conservation work, and trekking and climbing. It ticks all of the boxes and encompasses so many of my interests.
I will finish my year with an internship somewhere next summer!
This summer I am working at my climbing gym as an instructor for kids camps, parties, and adult classes. I am also coaching our Advanced Youth Team. At the end of summer I will be a Support Staff at a camp that I have volunteered at for a number of years. From September to December I am going to Spain to start working towards my main goal: to end the year being bilingual in Spanish. Before it gets cold, I want to spend some time Sailing in the Mediterranean to work towards my Skippers License. I am then going up into the Pyrenees to teach at a very isolated community run school. There I will stay with one of the families who helps to run the school, while teaching, helping on their farm, and hopefully getting involved in their small business of installing solar panels. Because it is extremely secluded and I don’t want to isolate myself, I will only spend about a month with them then leave for some currently unplanned adventure elsewhere in Spain and or Europe until mid December. I will go home to England for Christmas to spend time with my family.
For the second semester, I am enrolled in a course partnered with the High Mountain Institute and Where There Be Dragons. The Andes Leadership Adventure is a rugged 3 month trip in Peru and Patagonia. Its focus is Spanish immersion, cultural inquiry, independent study, conservation work, and trekking and climbing. It ticks all of the boxes and encompasses so many of my interests.
I will finish my year with an internship somewhere next summer!