November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. This post features a video by Ahlia Bethea, who traveled with the Experiment to South Africa this past summer.
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. Our first post features an essay by Experimenter Mitsuki Nishimoto, who traveled to Mongolia this past summer. It was 6:30 AM on the last [...]
Next year will be the 80th anniversary of the Experiment in International Living. In preparation, we are looking back into our long history, pulling out stories, photographs, videos and memories from the last 80 years. Rather than solely dig through our own archives for these photographs, we thought to ask our alumni to share their [...]
Our Experiment in Focus series continues with a visit to Mexico, the United States “oft-misunderstood neighbor to the south,” as group leader Matt Gordon puts it. Prior to their visit this past summer, Gordon and his Experimenters were questioned and scrutinized by friends and family about their decision to travel to Mexico. After only a [...]
By Adam Weinberg, World Learning President and CEO At its core, World Learning programs are designed to equip people with the tools needed to create a better world. I am often amazed at the things our participants do post-program. Yesterday was an especially telling day. A recent SIT Study Abroad student, Jessica Posner, was featured [...]
The Experiment in International Living has a long history of sending young people to countries and regions that many US Americans know little about. In the past few years the Experiment has launched new programs in Mongolia, Korea and Tanzania – a testament that the Experiment is keeping that mission alive. In 1971, Experimenter Greg Knudsen was offered a Nene Field Field Ambassador Scholarship through [...]
In 1961, Susan Albro Barkan joined the Experiment in International Living for a summer program in St. Etienne, France. She taught high school English in Massachusetts and California for 35 years, and in her retirement volunteers for the Sierra Club. For the 10 American college students, most of who had never left the country before, [...]
Newly minted 2011 Experimenters are just home from their three- to five-week Experiment in International Living cultural immersion adventures in 30 countries worldwide, Eighty-one group leaders, many of them former Experimenters, joined 839 high school students to explore different cultures through the arts, travel, language training, homestays, community service, peace studies, and ecology. Vermont-based photographer and [...]
The people have spoken! This year, we changed some of the rules for our annual photo contest. We set the stakes high by offering the winner a $500 travel voucher, and the runner-up a $300 voucher. From March 1st until May 15 of this year we received over 900 submissions, including nearly a hundred historical photographs from [...]
Last week 839 Experimenters and 81 group leaders began summer adventures in 30 countries around the world. Over the next month Experimenters will interact with locals during family homestays while exploring a theme in each country. They will complete community service projects in Ghana, chat with locals during intensive language courses in Japan, investigate ecological issues in Costa Rica, and learn the art of [...]
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