Tarik Shahzad is a Greenheart Travel Ambassador and alum. After spending a week volunteering in Costa Rica at an animal rescue center, he returned to Chicago to…
Are you a dog person or a cat person? Personally, I love dogs and before coming here, I was very curious about the practice of…
Before studying abroad in Costa Rica, you will hear all about culture shock and tips for getting through it. However, despite what I was told…
There is no perfect way to handle issues with a host family that work for every person in every situation, but there are things I…
Education is a concept that philosophers and professors have been trying to define for centuries. What is it? How is it obtained? Although these questions…
In the summer of 2015, I decided to take a risk, one that would turn out to be one of the best decisions I’ve made.…
I was staring blankly at the empty notebook pages I was to fill up with notes in a language I did not understand, when suddenly,…
Mother’s Day in the United States is a holiday reserved for fancy dinners, flowers, and cards in appreciation of the hard work moms put into…
The mix of social acceptability and the way businesses are set up within a foreign country can definitely make a workplace or school have a…
Immersion in school introduces many hurdles that I had not anticipated before my arrival, but learning to deal with them as they come is worth…
