I just got home an hour ago, and everything here is weirder than I could ever imagine. I already miss the easy going life I had in Indonesia. Ive been telling my parents about all the stories I created with everyone in indonesia. Im probably not the......Read More
Student travel leader, Sadie Fischbeck, confirmed that the students have landed at LA and are now proceeding through customs and on to their connecting flights home. Welcome back, students!...Read More
Dear family and friends, After heartfelt goodbyes and some tears, our group took the next steps on our journey home—a journey that started yesterday as we left transference to travel from Bira, a tiny beach town in Southern Sulawesi, through......Read More
“Sampai nanti Ibu!” I call as I tiptoe across my porch and down the precarious and wobbly steps of our stilted home. I set out towards rumah Andar (our program house in Sampela) tiptoeing, eyes glued to the boardwalk, trying to remember......Read More
One question I always wish I could ask before traveling somewhere is “what is one thing you are happy you brought and one thing you wish you left at home”? Over the past few days I have asked the group these questions and compiled a......Read More
Dear friends and families, What a journey it has been. Over the last three months we have seen each one of our students transform and grow in a thousand different ways. As a group, we have learned how to travel together, to respect each other and......Read More
Dear Spring 2019 Indonesia Semester Families, It is hard to believe that 3 months have passed since your student embarked on this incredible adventure! It won’t be long until students will be boarding their planes back home. We are sure you are......Read More
In the U.S. (and other mega-developed, mega-polluter countries), we live separate from our impact and our ecological footprint. We throw away our waste, old fashions, leftover foods, and clutter we bought but never needed without thinking of where......Read More
Selamat pagi from Bara Beach in Bira, South Sulawesi! We spent our morning having a slow breakfast on our guesthouse’s balcony overlooking the sea, and then we descended down to the beach to draw out a map of our travels in the sand. Here are some......Read More
Hi family and friends, We have now arrived in Bira, in South Sulawesi to start transference. We have said our bittersweet goodbyes to our homestay families in Sampela, and are now ready to enter a peaceful and reflective space for the next few days.......Read More
A little excerpt from my journal in Sampela (the village we are staying in in Wakatobi National Park on the Island of Sulawesi. We are staying with Bajau people, the “sea nomads,” who live on houses on stilts over the ocean. Most people here are......Read More
I literally travelled half way around the world to visit our semester group in Indonesia. I’ve worked in the Dragons office as the Art Director for 5+ years and recently had the unique (and amazing) opportunity to meet up with a group in the......Read More
Hi everyone, I am itchy for more Indo student Yaks but alas these amazing photos will have to suffice. They have been taken over the past few days and show the students meeting their homestay families for the first time and participating in......Read More
Hello families and friends of our Spring Indonesia Dragons, The team are safe following a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island on Friday at 6.40 pm, prompting tsunami warnings that were later lifted......Read More
We have arrived safely to Sampela after traveling by taxi, plane, and boats to get here. After all of the anticipation of Sampela, the group is happy to finally be settling into their homestays above the ocean. We arrived to the boardwalk, greeted......Read More