CELL News
Our CELL News section provides information, updates, and feedback for past, current, and future CELL students. A CELL experience is more than an exciting “study abroad” program. The purpose of any CELL experience is to ignite a life-long commitment to living sustainably and to giving and receiving support for this commitment through community. Students are introduced to concepts of sustainability during their semester abroad program, but more importantly, once they return home, they learn how to employ these concepts in their own lives through living sustainably and through implementing sustainability action plans in various communities.
Recent Blog Posts
Knit Two, Purl Two
Knit two, purl two. Knit one black, knit three gray. Purl one, Slip one. Purl one. Pull the slipped stitch over. Purl, purl, purl, purl… These words make up the clamor in my head as I knit my very first sock; these words give my hands the instructions they need to...
Aurora Borealis
When energetically charged atoms from solar rays collide with particles in the thermosphere, brilliant lights begin to dance. They dance not for us, humans, but they dance for the Earth. Their colors are magnificent, and in a profoundly existential and spiritual way,...
The Best Kind of Blossom
So, three weeks have gone by and with them the remnants of who I was before I came — falling away like soft drifts of sand creeping across the desert, changing the landscape with every wind. Solace is found in the fact that those remnants were never really meant to be...
Our Oasis
I have two things to tell you. One– your computer is garbage. Just as the plastic chair I’m sitting in is garbage, just as the shoes on my feet are garbage, just as the bones in my fingers are garbage– everything will eventually be thrown away. My bed sheets are...
Icelandic Pride
“Why do Icelanders think that they’re the best?” Though a comical question, Icelanders do appear to possess a prodigious amount of pride in regards to their country. They have the prettiest people, the most beautiful land, the best beer, the best wool, the best...