Hugging Trees & Chasing Chucaos: An Amity Tours & Iowa State University Chilean Adventure
If there鈥檚 one thing people know about me, it鈥檚 my unabashed pride for all things Chile and the Midwest; so, you can imagine how excited I was when these two great loves combined when I was given the opportunity to join a custom trip that Amity Tours designed for students from Iowa State University to explore the Lakes and Volcano District during their spring break!
This is one of the first opportunities we have had at Amity Tours to work in tandem with a faculty-led program looking to bring the classroom outdoors. We couldn鈥檛 be more thrilled to have had the chance to bridge the gap between academics and adventure with this fantastic group of 11 students and 2 professors from Iowa State鈥檚 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. For me in particular, it was especially heartwarming to be reminded of my first introduction to Chile not so long ago through my study abroad experience when getting to know the students throughout this particular program; for many of them, this was their first time out of the country, which made it an even more rewarding experience to join them on such a meaningful trip.
