The Year

I'm not going to school next year and I'm not working either. I'm doing a program called Outtatown, which is done through CMU. The program looks good. Everyone I talked to who has done it before said it was "the greatest experience of my life". The only downside I've heard is that most people think that the credit hours you earn, you don't really deserve because the learning and work is fairly slack. Sounds good to me. The highlights are a first semester of traveling from Manitoba to BC and a second semester of South Africa (Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Garden Route, Kwazulu-Natal and Kruger National Park). Both of those are done with a group of 27 other students and four leaders. As I hinted before I also get 18 credit hours of University classes (15 is a full semester). The whole year will cost about $15,000.

During the year, I believe I will have limited communication. I am not taking my computer (my sister is borrowing it) and I don't know how often I will be able to update people. If you are interested in getting updates, stay tuned to this blog because I will try and post them here, but you can also send me an email that I will hopefully get to. To get a taste of what my first semester is going to be like I put the basic outline of it onto my Google calendar. If you want to view it, all you have to do is have Google calendars and let me know you want to view it. Right now I'll I have is the first semester and the flights for the second semester, but if you check it the calendar will say when I am in BC, and specifically the Vancouver Urban plunge. I would love it if some people came and visited me on the streets. But alas, I only have minimal information for now.

If you want more information on the program as a whole you can check out http://www.outtatown.com/.