Susdei Everyone! We’ve spent the past three days at the Tropaing Sangke Ecolodge, a community-based ecotourism initiative. The Ecolodge is associated with a mangrove habitat restoration project, and over the past few days, in between setting......Read More

Dear friends at home — The Mekong student group has arrived in Phnom Penh! Everyone was welcomed with a dragonfruit (to celebrate the beginning of our Dragons course) and a Laos basi string ceremony (to bring good luck for our upcoming travels).......Read More

Hey guys!! I know I’m late with this intro but I thought it’d be better late than never! My name’s Myles and I live in Boston currently but I’m actually from San Francisco. I moved east when I was 12. I’m 19 now and in the middle of a......Read More

Hey everyone, I’m so excited to meet all of you and to get this trip started! I’m Julia, I live in Brazil and this past year so many things changed, me included. I graduated High School, and I’m just not ready to go to an......Read More

Rob here. Looking forward to meeting you all in person on Wednesday, T-2 days away (hard to believe!).   Because we’re so close to departure I’ll keep this intro reasonably brief.   I’m from Canada, and have lived in Toronto all my......Read More

Hi everyone! My name is Shade, and I am coming to this program from Boulder, CO. I lived in Washington D.C. until I was 16, so I still consider myself a Washingtonian with a current Boulder destination. I am graduating a semester early, but have......Read More

Hi everyone! I’m Sarah, from a suburb of Boston. I fell in love with Dragons two years ago after spending 6 weeks in Guatemala on the Spanish intensive program. During my senior year of high school I was an Alumni Ambassador for Dragons, so......Read More

Hi! My name is Lina, I’m 18 years old and I’m from Germany. Ever since I was little I DREAMED of travelling around the world. Not in the sense of travelling as a tourist but in order to dive into a new culture and merge in with my......Read More

Hi All! The I-Team has been in Northern Thailand this week making final preparations before embarking on our journey ahead. Our in-country support team member for Laos, Ramphai, has also joined in the fun. All we can say is what an amazing adventure......Read More

Hey everyone, I’m Westby and I’m really excited for this trip! I’m from New York City, and I’ve lived here since I was born. However, I went to a boarding school in northern Massachusetts called Groton School for high school......Read More

Hey everyone, I’m Wilson and I excited for our trip to begin. It just suddenly hit me that there’s only a week until we leave, and I realized that I really need to get my stuff together for this trip. I’m looking forward to seeing a new part......Read More

Hi folks, I’ve been meaning to put a few words together introducing myself for a while now, but between getting the flu and being on the road I just never got around to it — oops. Also, congrats on graduating Izzie and Josie, and to all......Read More