What Can Do With Your Summer ? Pursue your passion: Ann’s idea of the perfect summer included city life and theatre. It only took her one search of our database to find exactly what she was looking for. A theater program in London, that also happened to be with a great group of kids. And she got to act in a play, with a paying audience. Find excitement and satisfaction: Seth wanted adventure; his parents wanted him to do service. Working with our staff he found both in the Far West. That month proved as adventurous as he could have hoped. Maybe more so, when he dangled 200 feet below that cliff edge. His community service took him to a Navajo reservation where he worked at health clinic and learned more about Native Americans than any book had told him. Learn more about yourself: Trey was hoping to discover an interest. He thought maybe art. The month he spent studying it in Italy convinced him that might not be his course in college. No, now it was Italian. He loved the language and the country. Realize a dream: Paloma had always seen herself as a sailor. Problem was: she had grown up almost a thousand miles from the ocean. So she searched our database for programs involving boats. That solved that problem. After five weeks at sea – well, almost all of them at sea – she not only knew how to sail, she had signed on for another voyage next year. Prepare yourself for the next challenge: Albert was afraid of college. He had heard all the horror stories; he was afraid he would be overwhelmed. So, when one of our staff suggested he consider spending a month last summer on a college campus, he was intrigued. It worked. Albert had fun and got his first taste of dorm life (needless to say, he liked it). If that wasn’t enough the experience helped him raise his SAT scores. Do something extraordinary: Jenny wanted to do something really different last summer. She had been to camps; she did community service all during the year. Then she heard about the possibility of Tibet. Wow! I didn’t even know people could go there; didn’t they kick out the Dalai Lama? Well, he didn’t go back, but Jenny did. How can we help? Our Database: Its chock full of famous, time tested programs and ones almost no one has ever heard of. We make it easy to search ‘em, sort ‘em and choose ‘em. We also give you a rating system to help you figure out which is the best one for you. Our Staff: We’re here to make the whole thing work. Are you worried about whether you can afford to go on NOLS when you’re applying to college next year and you could be doing an academic program in France? Talk to us about it. Do you have a great program lined up in San Francisco for June and a family trip to Lake Tahoe for August but you want to find an internship for the time in-between, let us give you some suggestions on where to look in our database or where to look outside our database if nothing in it is appealing to you.