by Peter Civetta | May 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
It has now been a few months since I received that life-changing phone call. I remember the moment vividly: walking out of Tech on a rainy day, clutching my phone against my ear. The words that I heard made me let out an involuntary yell of joy — I had won the...
by Peter Civetta | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
September 13, 2004: Miami, Florida, USA I DID IT!!!!!!!!! I have travelled completely around the world! AND I CAN’T WAIT TO DO IT AGAIN! I learned more on this trip than I ever could have learned in years and years of school. The theatre...
by Peter Civetta | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
November 17, 2005 Now in Monterrey Mexico, researching with one of the two major labour unions in Mexico, CROC Confederación Revolutionaria de Obreros y Campesinos). I attended their annual national conference as a “special guest” and it is among one of my...
by Peter Civetta | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Week 15 Seoul ->Bucheon->Tokyo-> Chicago In this week: That’s a lot of tripe In Seoul but not a soldier 10 ways to eat live octopus Home again… And much, much more The flight from Bangkok literally flew by. Each blink would sink me into a deep sleep and...
by Peter Civetta | Jun 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the website for the Circumnavigator Foundation’s Travel Around the World Study Grant Scholar, Northwestern University senior Christopher Ahern. Chris beginning his journey at O’Hare Airport on Friday, June 15th – – just after 5:30...