<p>has anyone heard of it, or doing it? Any feedback would be great. Im just curious.</p>
<p>I almost went this summer! my overprotective mom changed her mind last-minute. I was so mad. But quite a few kids from my school go there and they say they have a blast. (I applied to the Fiji program)</p>
<p>its incredible I went this summer to the nasouri highlands and spent a month sleeping on people's floors, buliding toilets, mixing cement and meeting the most wonderful people in the world. I am legally part of a village in Fiji :) THey have tons of different programs all varying in their degree of rusticness.
So you have a lt to choose from</p>
<p>seems like a load of crap. A person I hate went after she found out everyone was going to summer programs.</p>
<p>here i will re-word
rustic does great things. they have connections with real people that need real help in the real world. if you really want to work and live within a culture they have a program for you. but not all there programs are that way. some are geared toward travel and some are community service light. just different options for different people. i am sorry the person above me had a bad expierence, but I felt like we really contributed. i bulit toilets and went backpacking, what i did was not a load of crap.
i have a friend that spent 9 weeks in south east asia. what she did was deff not a load of crap
but hey difference of opinions is cool. different things different people.
next year for my gap summer i am going to india for two months
i would really reccommend it</p>
<p>i went to india (service in the clouds) and it was absolutely incredible.</p>
<p>My son did the Rustic Pathways Soccer and Service program in Costa Rica twice and now wants to go back to the same village for a third time. Taught English, helped build a school bathroom and library, played soccer every day. Surfed on the weekends. He is a good Spanish student, but never really was able to converse until his first summer in CR. Lived with the same family both times and refers to the family members there as "my sister", etc.</p>