سلام My name is Kristen and I will be one of your instructors. I am so excited for the months ahead of us in Morocco! Can you believe we are just weeks away from meeting? As I reflect on the previous Dragon’s courses that I have instructed and......Read More
“The gift of a quiet mind brings peace and healing. The gift of a quiet heart makes love sweet. Winning or losing, quietly breathing, watching the snow fall on cat’s feet.” -The Plum Village Dear Dragons’ parents and students, I am delighted......Read More
Already my gaze is upon the hill, the sunlit one. The way to it, barely begun, lies ahead. So we are grasped by what we have not grasped, full of promise, shining in the distance. It changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something we barely......Read More
Salam Alaykum السلام عليكم. Three days ago I celebrated Eid al-Adha, it is the second Islamic holiday and the biggest one. On that day, we sacrifice a sheep in the name of God to commiserates the miracle of the prophet Ibrahim and his Son......Read More
Hello Mekong Semester, I am writing to you from Madagascar, a place that is as unfamiliar to me as I assume the remote villages of China, rice paddies of Laos, and cities of Cambodia are to you. I arrived to the world’s fourth largest island a few......Read More
Apa kabar? “How are you?” At this moment, my mind has been filled up with many questions about you all…my fellow travelers. Where are you now? What kind of preparation are you already have for Indonesia? Or whether you have been starting to......Read More
Hello everyone, Marcus here! I will be one of your instructors this upcoming semester, alongside Pei-yuen and Maddie (and Tindy during our time in Kunming!) and I am greatly looking forward to meeting each of you and to embarking on our......Read More
Hello all, my name is Bradford. I’m happy to welcome you to the next steps of your journey to the place called Nepal— a truly unique and amazing area of this planet! Are you feeling excited to soon be immersed in a land of snowy peaks and......Read More
Namaste Dragons, I’d like to start by expressing my inspiration and gratitude: I’m inspired by your courage to leap into the wild journey that awaits you just around the bend, and grateful to the unique set of circumstances that is bringing each......Read More
Greetings Fellow Adventurers! Welcome to the 2019 Morocco Fall Semester Program Yak Board! In just over a month, you will arrive in Casablanca and begin a sojourn that will change your life in unforeseen ways. This journey will present challenges......Read More
Greetings Fellow Adventurers! Welcome to the 2019 Indonesia Fall Semester Program Yak Board! In just over a month, you will arrive in Jakarta and begin a sojourn that will change your life in unforeseen ways. This journey will present challenges and......Read More
Greetings Fellow Adventurers! Welcome to the 2019 Mekong Fall Semester Program Yak Board! In just over a month, you will arrive in Kunming and begin a sojourn that will change your life in unforeseen ways. This journey will present challenges and......Read More
South America: Andes & Amazon - Group A, South America: Andes & Amazon - Group B, South America: Andes & Amazon - Group C, China: South of the Clouds, Mekong: The Tibetan Plateau to the Heart of Southeast Asia, Indonesia: Community, Culture, & Conservation, Morocco: Ancient Cities to the Atlas Mountains, Nepal: Himalayan Studies - Group A, Nepal: Himalayan Studies - Group B, Nepal: Himalayan Studies - Group C
Dear Fall 2019 Travelers, It’s great to see your Yak Board come to life! This is a very exciting time of year for all of us, and while we understand that you’re likely anxious to meet your traveling companions, we have a request for you: please......Read More
South America: Andes & Amazon - Group A, South America: Andes & Amazon - Group B, South America: Andes & Amazon - Group C, China: South of the Clouds, Mekong: The Tibetan Plateau to the Heart of Southeast Asia, Indonesia: Community, Culture, & Conservation, Morocco: Ancient Cities to the Atlas Mountains, Nepal: Himalayan Studies - Group A, Nepal: Himalayan Studies - Group B, Nepal: Himalayan Studies - Group C
Dear Fall 2019 students, Welcome to the Dragons community and your course’s Yak Board! You can think of your course’s Yak Board as a online group journal and virtual bulletin board. Pre-course, you will use the Yak Board to introduce......Read More
Hello China Fall 2019 Semester Students & Families! Welcome to the Yak Board! Going forward, this will be our main forum for sharing information about preparing for the semester, a place for instructors and students to introduce themselves, a......Read More
