They call themselves “The Hotel-less Bunch”--a trio of SAS voyagers who landed at the Nova Scotia airport at 2 a.m. on embarkment day and settled there for several hours before sharing a cab to the port to check-in for their journey.
The threesome formed fast bonds in that short time, linked by their shared interest in exploring issues of human rights and social justice while learning about the cultures of nine different countries in just two months.
“We found that we had quite a few mutual interests—in international rights, children’s issues, and other areas—and a lot of time together to talk about them,” said Belinda Wilson, a mother of three from Tennessee, who recently returned to college after more than 20 years and enrolled in the SAS voyage upon the insistence of her children.
Wilson and fellow airport SAS holdovers--Wan Wang of UC Berkeley, and Josh Hernandez, who’ll be transferring to MIT in the fall—decided to travel together on a few trips. After 40 minutes of pouring over the SAS field program booklet during check-in, the trio decided on 10 trips together, one in each country.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me and I want to make sure I experience places and people and things that I may not get another chance to do,” said Hernandez, a physics major.
The threesome formed fast bonds in that short time, linked by their shared interest in exploring issues of human rights and social justice while learning about the cultures of nine different countries in just two months.
“We found that we had quite a few mutual interests—in international rights, children’s issues, and other areas—and a lot of time together to talk about them,” said Belinda Wilson, a mother of three from Tennessee, who recently returned to college after more than 20 years and enrolled in the SAS voyage upon the insistence of her children.
Wilson and fellow airport SAS holdovers--Wan Wang of UC Berkeley, and Josh Hernandez, who’ll be transferring to MIT in the fall—decided to travel together on a few trips. After 40 minutes of pouring over the SAS field program booklet during check-in, the trio decided on 10 trips together, one in each country.
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me and I want to make sure I experience places and people and things that I may not get another chance to do,” said Hernandez, a physics major.
Wang, who would like a career with UNICEF, and Wilson, an English and international studies, selected several outings to children’s orphanages. “We really want to immerse ourselves as much as we can in the countries while we have the chance,” said Wilson. “What better way to do that than to be as close to the children and the families as possible.”
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