Category: North America
-
Uncover the US: Viva Las Vegas
Explore Las Vegas beyond the city by visiting the magnificent Red Rock Canyon.
-
Uncover the US: Great Sand Dunes NP!
The Uncover the US series helps you encounter new favorite places in the States.
-
How to go abroad: US & UK!
This interview highlights working at summer camps in the US & au pairing in England, from a Brazilian perspective.
-
2020 in review
I asked my friends if anything good happened in 2020 and was overwhelmed with their response.
-
Inside The Expedition School
The Expedition School in Austin, Texas is about bringing the outdoors to everyone, no matter how they learn or their background.
-
Uncover the US: Southern Arizona
Featuring Chiricahua National Monument, Saguaro National Park, Tuscon and the Coronado National Forest
-
Uncover the US: Southern New Mexico
Featuring White Sands National Monument (Park!) and Lincoln National Forest in southern New Mexico
-
Uncover the US: Northern Colorado
Featuring Denver, Estes Park, Fort Collins and Boulder, Colorado
-
Immigrants make America great
Everyone — whether we realize it or not — knows an immigrant. It could be the woman who served you drinks in the restaurant, the man who files your insurance claims, your child’s best friend in elementary school, a gardener or doctor who you pass on your way to work. And all of us in the…
-
On coming home, again
I have changed my life’s trajectory several times over the past 10 years. I’ve been a college admissions adviser, a ticket booth operator, a family-owned farm employee, a fruit and veggie factory worker, a radio intern, a content producer for newspapers, a nonprofit children’s counselor, a photojournalist, a freelance magazine writer, an EFL educator and…
-
Texans protest family separation at U.S.-Mexico border
This story was originally printed in the fall 2018 version of Fellowship! Magazine. By Ashleigh Bugg The children’s detention center is housed in an old Walmart building in Brownsville, Texas. The former big box retailer can hold roughly 1,500 children who have been separated from their parents, many against their will. “The detention centers have…
-
My visit to an ICE detention center
I have not seen anything more painful or broken than watching grown men cry in the presence of their family members at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Virginia. Some of their stories I know, some I will never know. The only crime many have committed was being born in the wrong…