The Countdown of the summer

This being the premier post for my blog, I guess it should be a preface to the story I hope to make.

Hopefully if you're checking this its because you know me and wanna check out what I'm up to. If that's not the case, or you just want to see how I describe my life then this is for you:

My name is Tyler Mascarello, I was born on April 20th, 1991. So if you do the math I'm 18 and should be going to college sometime this month right? Well that's not how this story goes. I've been a world traveler my whole life. I can't say I was a natural, I remember screaming on an airplane to Disney World on our first family trip due to the pain of the air pressure. But due to a business opportunity my Dad had in the UK our family was given the chance to spend one to two years living in England. Exciting stuff for a seven year old. While we were there it was easy to take family trips to different places in Europe, so my brother Jake and I were the best travelled kids I knew by age ten. Eventually we went back to the states, and mellowed out on the travelling for a while, keeping most vacations within the states. The world was calling me back, and I was dying to explore it. I went to a Spanish immersion camp before High School started (it sound dorky, but it rocked), and that was the base of my independance and willingness to be alone. I was away for a month, and the next year my parents gave me another oppourtunity to travel, I went to Australia after my Freshman Year, and Argentina after my Junior year. I also participated in two missions trips to the Dominican Republic during high school. So before my brother went to college my parents presented him with a "Gap Year" oppourtunity. He had the ability to defer his admission to Purdue and take a year to travel and do some of the coolest stuff I had ever heard about. I couldn't believe he didn't want to do it! So after five college rejections, and acceptances to two schools I wasn't too thoroughly excited about I did what my brother didn't; I deffered my admission to Indiana University, and signed up. So finally after not knowing where I was going to be this fall for so long I know! I will be in a northern province of South Africa called Limpopo in an animal rehibilitation center. I'll be moving further south after five weeks to another rehibilitation center, and then I'll be in Bolivia after December.

So here I am blogging my journey (In the footsteps of Rick Beiterman my Earth Science teacher last year) and trying to keep you informed, because you deserve to know.

Love,
Tyler