Dear Gracious Donors:

I am an Environmental Studies/Environmental Horticulture major with a passion to travel and see the world. Even though I am only in my second year of college, I already have plans to go to graduate school and study the microclimates created by plants as a method of bioremediation. As anyone who has ever tried for grad school knows, it is competitive. To broaden my skills, I have taken/will take many field labs through my junior college. However, the world is a big place and one day field excursions in California do not give me the understanding of the world I feel I need to have in order to change it. So I applied to many different study abroad opportunities this summer.  I met my goal of going on a six week field study in Bhutan (click on the url below).  This trip involves ecosystem studies, wild life biology, plant biology and other activities such as cultural studies. It is also a possibility that I can go one an 8 day field study to the White Mountains later in the summer. I was accepted to the Bhutan Program on January 27th! My first tuition deposit is due on February 28th. Counting all expenses, I will need roughly $12,000. While I am working to raise the funds, I simply am running out of time. With your help, I'll get the jumpstart I need to change the world! Thank you all in advance!