Lori, a repeat volunteer serving in Poland, talks about her last days teaching English to children at Reymontowka camp and the team’s sad good-byes. Our last day! Time flew by quickly. Our day again begins at a great Reymontówka breakfast. We particularly discussed how this day would be different with the third and fourth hours […]
Shelby, a volunteer serving in Poland, talks about her last days teaching English to children and Reymontowka camp, what she calls “Our home far away.” Tuesday morning: Again the eager sun rose over Reymontowka, our home far away, at its usual 4:30. Slowly the muffled, comforting sounds of the camp starting another day echoed down […]
Message of the day: “Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”-Mahatma Gandhi. Shared by Amanda. Wednesday morning we had a beautiful breakfast which included what is called in Poland, omelet. To us it looked like a folded pancake with jam inside. We spend time every morning during […]
Message of the day: “And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.” – From America the Beautiful. Attributed to Katherine Lee Bates and offered by Fred who wished to note “from sea to shining sea” includes the whole world, not simply the space between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in North America. […]
Message of the day: The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of all kinds. Attributed to the Dalai Lama and shared by Joanna The first day of the rest of my life—the sun’s up, the mist is clearing on the Tatra Mountain […]
The Ford Family of Great Falls, Montana (all nine of them) served together in Pommern in June 2013. This is their journal of their Adventure in Service. 8/6/13 – Lovely seaside dinner with Edward. The food is delicious and the view of the water amazing, but we realize this is the tourist “Disneyland” part of […]
I’m off to meet matron by 7:30 to attend students before classes. It is Friday but no body seems particularly enthused the weekend is here. We had a lot of students with colds and stomach pain, a cough who were referred the teachers (a) morning break and it was great to see them and […]