Dragons featured in The Tufts Daily

We are excited to see Dragons featured in The Tufts Daily!

This reflection features Tuft’s Civi Semester fellows Cameron Sasser, Ana Luísa Riberio da Salva, and Vorlek Hak, Dragons alumni who traveled to Peru and Thailand as part of a Where There Be Dragons Gap partnership program. The piece is titled: Civic Semester fellows spend first-year fall semester in Peru, Thailand

Here’s an excerpt:

“While most first-years began their Tufts education last fall in classrooms on the Hill, 23 Civic Semester fellows boarded flights to Peru or Thailand instead. These students chose to study abroad during their first semester of college, joining an immersive learning program through the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.”

“Where There Be Dragons is an amazing organization … they really changed the ways that I see traveling and tourism,” Ana Luísa Ribeiro da Silva, a first-year in the Peru program, said.

For her service learning placement, Ribeiro da Silva worked with Valley Camp Peru, an outdoor education non-governmental organization that runs summer camps for local youth.

“The biggest takeaway was more learning about myself,” she said. “I was interested in education [careers], but I was apprehensive on going to traditional education, and I actually figured out [that] I want to explore more of these non-traditional parts, more experiential and socio-emotional [parts] of education.”

Head over to The Tufts Daily to read the full article.