In continuing our series of introducing our community to a few of our most recent graduates, meet Lucas Schoen.

Lucas is in for an adventure of a lifetime as he graduates from Assets.  This fall, through Kroka, a wilderness adventure program based in New Hampshire, he will be living for a semester in Ecuador, South America.  While in Ecuador, he and his fellow Kroka mates will be immersed in the culture, speaking Spanish while paddling the Amazon River, and hiking and climbing Ecuador's volcanoes from their base camp in Hacienda Palugo, outside the city of Quito.  One reason Lucas desires to participate in this program is to escape the constant barrage of technology and be in the wilderness with his thoughts to reflect on how he sees his life unfolding.  I cannot help but compare Lucas' sentiments with those of Henry David Thoreau in Walden:  "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately," this is a life style to which all of us should aspire.