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New Work at IP Beja

We volunteers continue to travel in various directions, off to our assigned schools in Beja and beyond. Some need to arrive by 8:15 am, while others don’t start teaching until 3:00 pm. In spite of our diverse schedules, we are a very harmonious…
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Activities of Engagement

Our second day in the schools of Beja and outlying municipalities was filled with activities of engagement. The volunteers actively worked to engage the students and teachers in their respective educational settings with introductory conversational…
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The First Day of School

Message of the day (shared by Rita): Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. (Mother Theresa) Finally, the first day of school! It meant a 7:00 a.m. breakfast, bountiful as always, and a 7:30 a.m.…
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Just a Typical Beautiful Day in Beautiful Poland

Repeat volunteer Edmund talks about orientation and his first day serving at Reymontowka, a typical beautiful day in beautiful Poland. For you newcomers to Reymontowka, you will note that most of our entries into the Journal will concentrate…
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Romania Week One

Journal by: Sharon Conard   THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:   Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others. 1 Corinthians 10:24 (NIV)   Saturday, 8/27: Arrived in Bucharest, Romania after a very long plane…
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Aug 11 – Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way

by Melissa Today started out much differently for me than yesterday. As I headed to Heart Butte for Youth Day yesterday, I knew that I was headed to my heart work – kids. Others seemed uncertain of whether there would be enough…
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Keep an open mind as a Global Volunteer

by Melanie Working as a Global Volunteer can be as much about helping yourself as it is helping others. You might learn a new openness that changes your perspective, and your beliefs in your own possibilities. For instance, you…
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“People Just Like You”

by Melissa My children have a book about the kids around the world. The message of the book is that “there are kids all around the world just like you.” Seattle, WA and Browning, MT are not a world apart in distance; they…
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Our Top Ten Service Team Experiences

We celebrated and packed tonight. And we also reflected on the highlights of this experience. Here are our favorites. 1. The bachelor party. How many other teams have been lucky enough to make the guest list at a Greek bachelor party? Um,…
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An amazing experience

Thought to End: “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us”. -Albert Schweitzer   Journal…
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Global Volunteers Team 212 : Colegio Continues

This morning I woke to another well made delicious breakfast and the coffee I am now extremely addicted to. After breakfast we went back down to the school to work. While the group was working on the trail again I was shadowing with a…
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Smarter than a fifth-grader?

Am I smarter than a fifth-grader? Joanna and Irini would say, "No way!" (I'm sure there is a Greek translation.)These 10- and 12-year-olds stayed with Kevin and me for their entire free period today, trying to teach us Greek words and phrases.…
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