ETHS Senior Trades Dorm for Ecuador

After graduating from Evanston Township High School this spring, Lydia Collins is preparing for a seven-month stay in Ecuador as a "gap year" before college.

As most students in Evanston Township High School’s Class of 2012 are getting ready to meet their freshmen year roommates and packing up for the dorms, Lydia Collins is getting multiple immunizations and packing up for seven months in Ecuador.  Collins is preparing to embark on a “gap year” with the organization Global Citizen Year, which sends 100 recent high school grads to Brazil, Ecuador and Senegal every year.  “I realized halfway through my senior year that I was ready to go to college, but I wanted to do something else before I went,” Collins told Patch. “I wanted to go out and see the world, I wanted to be fluent in Spanish—I wanted the perspective before I went to college.” Collins applied to several programs but ultimately chose …

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