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Tuesday – What A Difference A Day Makes

Today was very satisfying.  We arrived at school at 8 AM and rejoined our classes.  My partner and I assisted teacher, Maria with her new first year class by sharing our background and responding to questions and correcting pronunciation. Things…
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Welcome! – The First Day Of Class! From Two Perspectives

This is the first day of school for both the students and volunteers.  There was a flurry of activity, with many kisses,  and greetings from the teachers to one another. One teacher arrived with cookies. Everyone seemed genuinely happy…
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Sunday – Our First Day As A Team – Strong & Able

Sunday, our orientation day began with two surprises. First, our team member from Calgary, was celebrating her ?? birthday. What better way to spend a birthday - in Italy.  Our second surprise was a breakfast appearance from the lovely…
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Team 185 Arrives in Monopoli – A Time to Remember

From sea to shining sea, from north to south, from the United States, from Canada - and from their hearts and souls -  Team 185 is prepared to make a difference in the lives of their students and friends. We begin with gusto and experience…
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Birthday Celebration

We had breakfast then prepared for the morning at Christ King. Sheeba put jasmine flowers in our hair and put a bindi on our forehead. I felt so special and smelled so nice. Today we are responsible for the entire class period (1 hour…
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Joyful weekend

We rose early to have breakfast before we began our trip to Kanchipuram.  After a breakfast of boiled egg, Appam with sweet milk, we loaded our small bags into Stephen's Tata car for our adventure.  We stopped and looked through the fence…
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I Thought Our Sense of Pride was High, but…

Day 9 in Lima was a day of reflection for me – not because I had to contribute to Edith’s request to journal, but because I have learned so much on this mission experience. As an American, I thought our sense of pride was high, but…
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Highlights from Our Time in Costa Rica

Distance between people, doesn’t mean you can’t be close to their hearts! Two thousand six hundred eighty two miles is exactly how far I live from Colegio of Santa Elena (‘colegio’ means secondary school for those like me who don’t…
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Mission Accomplished!

Team 227 woke up to a rainy morning on Friday, the final day of service for the California Contingent. Watching our Team Members sit down to enjoy our first bite of breakfast at 7:00 a.m. sharp was a thing of beauty, though young Master Haiden…
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Starting our service in Costa Rica

It feels like we’ve been in Costa Rica waiting patiently for this day: our day to start serving, to begin connecting, to meet those who we’ve only yet envisioned in our minds. So after our Team #227 had breakfast and a quick team meeting,…
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Winding down and a night at the village!

  Wednesday, July 30, 2014 Message of the day: ''I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou As we…
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Week- end activities!

Saturday-Sunday. July 26-7, 2014: Message of the day: I am not a product of my circumstances.  I am a product of my decisions. Yasas! Today marks the beginning of Week 2 for our 100th Greece service team. The 16 of us who were here…
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