Written by Laureline, a United Planet Team member: On July 4 2008, I arrived in Boston from France ready to live my six-month adventure in Boston, knowing that I would not be back home before January 2009. I got off the plane and was greeted by United Planet volunteers who were kind enough to pick [...]

As I stepped off the plane in Amman, Jordan, I was immediately greeted by a wall of dry heat. Having lived in Egypt the previous year, I was familiar with that feeling of dry, hot air filling up my lungs! After the initial heat shock (this was Jordan in August so I should have been [...]