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Rachel Baker

Rachel Baker

Program: Gap Year Abroad in Spain
Bio: I am a sister, a picture taker, a runner, a nature lover, a food try-er… actually an anything try-er, a scrap booker, a line dancer, a shower singer, a gardener, a new blogger, and a traveler. All through high school I have done mission trips through my church.
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Lauren Bechtel

Lauren Bechtel

Program: Gap Year Abroad in Spain
Bio: My name is Lauren Bechtel, and I grew up in small town Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Ever since childhood, my education has been anything but traditional. My parents chose to educate me at home for the first eight years of school, but I transferred to a public high school for my freshman year.
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Christina Cabezas

Christina Cabezas

Program: Gap Year Abroad in Dominican Republic
Bio: ¡Hola amigos! My name is Christina Cabezas and I am from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Yes, the land of the Amish! (Know the show “Amish Mafia”? Yep, that’s my home!) Last June, I graduated from Conestoga Valley High School and have taken a year off before beginning college. Through a Gap Year Abroad Program with CIEE and a generous scholarship with the Speedwell Foundation, I will be living in Santiago, Dominican Republic during this spring semester.
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Stephanie Denoyer

Stephanie Denoyer

Program: Gap Year Abroad in Spain
Bio: Hi, I’m Steph Denoyer—bitten by the travel bug, and risk-taker through and through. I find myself this spring in Sevilla, España, hoping to learn a thing or two about both Spanish culture in action and the art of integrating in a family with whom you share neither a homeland, nor family, nor language.
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Madeleine Meredith

Madeleine Meredith

Program: Gap Year Abroad in Chile/Spain
Bio: Bienvenido! I grew up in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Mountain Vista High School this past May. During high school, I participated in field hockey, my high school's business club called DECA, the National Spanish Honors Society, and was the co-president of Show Me the Monet, a new art program just founded last year.
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Hayley Schultz

Hayley Schultz

Program: Gap Year Abroad in Chile/Spain
Bio: Hello and welcome to my blog! I cannot wait for this gap year experience so I can improve my Spanish and become immersed in not one, but two completely different cultures. I have always loved learning about other cultures, and I am fascinated by other languages... so taking a gap year seemed like a pretty perfect plan for me.
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Helen Walter-Cardinal

Helen Walter-Cardinal

Program: Gap Year Abroad in France
Bio: I didn’t choose to go abroad for a year; I had to. No one made me—I simply could not think of a reason I wouldn’t want to. When I was too young to remember, my parents lived abroad and traveled throughout Europe with me. Even though we moved back to the U.S. before I started preschool, I grew up knowing that I didn’t have to feel stuck living in the same place my whole life and that it was okay to move out of my comfort zone. Many people my age will follow a monotonous path from school to a career as if their life has already been planned out for them.
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