A Second Family: My Home Stay in Patagonia
A NOLS gap year student reflects on the homestay section of her Year in Patagonia course.
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Caroline took a gap year after high school with NOLS Patagonia and is now a student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During the school year she studies dead languages, and during her summers she introduces kids to the wilderness by guiding canoe adventures in northern Minnesota and Canada. She likes sleeping outdoors and wouldn’t turn down a hot bowl of cheesy pasta. The Earth is her favorite planet.
A NOLS gap year student reflects on the homestay section of her Year in Patagonia course.