The application deadline for the 2015-2016 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad scholarship program is January 7, 2015.
On my first night in Calcutta, India, miles away from my school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I prepared for bed after a long two days of travel. I didn't have any tissue paper to clean my glasses, so I decided to get toilet paper.
From Hognfjorden, Vesterålen. Beautiful auroras this week - taken from my house, just 100 meters down, by the sea.

Marc Freccero - note this name, for he is making a difference. As we all know, travel can be done a zillion ways - each person has their own ways of traveling. That is what makes reading and writing about travel so interesting - the enormous variety of viewpoints and ways we expeirence the world.
Highlights from #WHTravelBloggers #StudyAbroadBecause and reflections on international travel in the USA and USians abroad. Tuesday, December 23 hangout, 10am Las Vegas, 1pm New York City.
IREX and the United States Department of State are pleased to announce the launch of the 2015 application cycle to the Teachers for Global Classrooms (TGC) Program.
When I was in graduate school, I lived and learned amidst dozens of languages, cultures, people. There were many international scholars in our program, who braved the cold Minnesota winters in search of knowledge, community, and camaraderie. What I loved most about that was the chance to learn, in-depth, about the world from a diverse group of people.
Kids learn through their taste buds.
Florida Culture for Christmas Week 2014 By Josh Garrick