Thought for the day: When you come to a fork in the road- take it. Yogi Berra The day started with breakfast followed by a trip to our respective campuses. The group at the Biomedical Technical College taught the students bingo games, bingo songs, shapes, sentence construction, objectives and cardiac assessment. The volunteers at the […]
Day 10: Last day of our volunteer experience We were off in the morning through the crazy hectic traffic in Lima and arrived at our one-day experience to teach children coloring, painting, and drawing. We had a confidence in our ability to interact with children because each of us was an involved mother and we […]
Today was our ninth and final day at La Molina. We could not have foreseen that we would be the active learners in this ongoing exchange of respect, culture, camaraderie, and knowledge. Every day new lessons were learned – about ourselves and each other, lessons about risk-taking and vulnerability, motivation and ambition, friendship and trust, […]
Thought for the day: Don’t look back, they may be gaining on you. Today started with breakfast at 6:30am. The 4 volunteers that went to the Biomedical Technical College taught a review of animals’ names, prepositional phrases, use of a jumbo gram, review of shapes, colors, guest introductions, people, places, adjectives and a discussion of […]
Speech given by volunteer Priscilla Zobel at final celebration in Queretaro, Mexico: How many of you remember when you decided to become a teacher? How many of you remember a teacher who changed your life, a teacher who encouraged you? How many of you can remember feeling that a teacher believed in you? How many […]
We are ending our fifth day in Peru, and I have treasured three days at La Molina Language Center. Each day is a lesson in graciousness, as my students teach me the meaning of the word by their attitudes and actions, and I teach them the definition of the word, as I thank them being […]
Message of the Day: “The whole pace of life and personality of the people who live among them are different. They’re not too busy to be coureous. The hereness and nowness of things is something that they know all about. The discovery is the real find.” – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance As […]
Students, Teachers, Monopoli….We Will Miss You We taught students – both young & old. They shared so much of their lives, stories and culture with us Through our many conversations and observations, we feel so privileged to have been a part of this service program. So now, we wonder…… Did We Take More Than We […]
A Time To Pause and Reflect……… We are nearing the end of our two week stay in Monopoli! I am just beginning to feel comfortable at school with the teachers and the students, finally getting the hang of things. As we participate in our daily wrap ups, I can see that everyone has their […]
Today the volunteers awoke to the sound of the ‘Mistral’, the famous wind that brought waves crashing into the shore just outside the Hotel Cleo. Our tranquil Adriatic Sea was transformed into a beautiful crashing and raging sea. School continued until noon and the volunteers could teach as many as four classes. Some went to […]