Hawaii Orientation: This is Just the Beginning

Hi everyone!!

I want to quickly reintroduce myself as I, along with anyone who followed this blog while I lived in Costa Rica, am now about four years older than when we all last visited this URL. In addition to that, there may be some newcomers so a quick recap is due:

I was born in South Burlington, Vermont and grew up there through my sophomore year of high school. I proceeded to do a six month exchange program through AFS to live in Costa Rica and attend public school there for the first semester of my junior year of high school (That can all be read about in the posts below this one). While there, my family moved to Tennessee, and so the adventure continued! I attended Saint Andrews-Sewanee school for the remainder of my high school years and decided to go to Sewanee: the University of the South to receive my undergrad education. Traveling continued as I got a job waitressing in Yellowstone National Park after my freshman year, and did a 6 week intensive ecology research program this past summer on an island off of Georgia. Small trips were pursued here and there to satisfy that thing some refer to as the travel bug. 

Now, I am preparing to embark on a program with SIT studying Pacific Island Communities and Social Change for the semester. I'm writing this in a hostel in Hawaii where our orientation is and by February 4th (Samoa time, so February 3rd in the US), I'll be in Samoa starting classes with my program at USP (University of the South Pacific). 

That is a brief overview of my current situation and I promise my next post will be more interesting. Just thought i'd get the ball rolling while I had the chance!

Thanks for reading & I hope whoever is reading this sticks around!

pura vida,

Tieta