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Averielle Van Horne

Averielle is passionate about languages, traveling, and community service. She spent her senior year studying French, German, Spanish, and Latin; all the languages her school offered. She was also an active member of several community service clubs and volunteered more hours than she can count. Averielle's goals for the year are to learn to speak Portuguese fluently, make lots of new friends, and leave a positive lasting impression on her Brazilian community.

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October

Averielle Van Horne

2019-05-17

October 4. Those of us in Garopaba got together for “Catch 2” at Karin’s house. She has a super cute, fluffy dog that stole my heart. October 8. My host family’s guinea pig gave birth to little babies!! October 25. Went to a relative’s sixth birthday party with my host family. October 31. Halloween! The...

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September

Averielle Van Horne

2019-02-19

I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written in...

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September

Averielle Van Horne

2019-02-16

> I started off this gap year with a blog post. The night before I left for Brazil, I rushed to put together a couple paragraphs on how excited I was for this year in order to meet the requirement of having at least one blog post written before arriving in-country. While it was written...

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Prologue: My Adventure Begins

Averielle Van Horne

2018-09-01

For a long time now, I’ve wanted to take a gap year. I knew that I didn’t feel quite ready yet for college, and I wanted to do something meaningful before slaving away at studying in college. While I was looking into gap year programs, I came across Global Citizen Year. Ever since I was...

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