Eojin C. 2014 Fellow
“In Mongolia, I interned at the National University of Mongolia and volunteered at a local library while staying with host families. I went to Uzbekistan next as part of a broadcast journalism internship and shadowed surgeries in a children's hospital. In Myanmar, I visited Buddhist monasteries, played with children in rural villages, rode an elephant, and hiked through the fields for three days. I also traveled in India with a group of Korean middle school students as an English translator and group leader, sleeping in trains, hostels, and a sustainable community of volunteer workers. Lastly, I went backpacking alone in Europe for three months while staying in hostels, friends' homes, and with host families. After my gap year, I started attending Swarthmore College, and I'm considering a major in neuroscience or cognitive science. I am so grateful and happy that I had the chance to take a gap year— my experiences have definitely helped me become a more independent and open-minded traveler and person, and I also feel more confident to travel alone and take on new experiences, wherever they might be.”
“In Mongolia, I interned at the National University of Mongolia and volunteered at a local library while staying with host families. I went to Uzbekistan next as part of a broadcast journalism internship and shadowed surgeries in a children's hospital. In Myanmar, I visited Buddhist monasteries, played with children in rural villages, rode an elephant, and hiked through the fields for three days. I also traveled in India with a group of Korean middle school students as an English translator and group leader, sleeping in trains, hostels, and a sustainable community of volunteer workers. Lastly, I went backpacking alone in Europe for three months while staying in hostels, friends' homes, and with host families. After my gap year, I started attending Swarthmore College, and I'm considering a major in neuroscience or cognitive science. I am so grateful and happy that I had the chance to take a gap year— my experiences have definitely helped me become a more independent and open-minded traveler and person, and I also feel more confident to travel alone and take on new experiences, wherever they might be.”