This website is intended to serve as inspiration and a resource guide for students looking for educational opportunities that exist beyond the classroom.  These include travel, work, and volunteer experiences that you choose to participate in, with the state of mind that you can learn and gain from each experience, individual, and situation, whether easy, difficult, "good", or "bad".   This guide is for you if:

• You are a student (high school, college) who realizes that numerous educational opportunities exist beyond the confines of the classroom.

• You are ready to learn in an environment where you are not told what to do or what to think, but instead must take the initiative to discover these things on your own.  

• You are ready to expand your comfort zone, whether it be by living on your own for the first time, having a real job with related responsibilities, struggling in a new culture, or doing something that is not part of our mainstream education system.

• You are ready to take responsibility for your education and experiences; this may mean paying for your experiences, or consciously deciding to learn from every situation.

It is not for you if:

• Your sole reason for taking time off of school is to go party somewhere, or you are just looking for an extended vacation.