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Bingo games, songs, shapes, sentence construction, objectives …

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 […]

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Our Visit to Alto Progreso, Pamplona Alta

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 […]

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Students of Life

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, […]

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Our classes included a variety of teaching games – fun!

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 […]

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Everday is a Little Bit of Heaven

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 […]

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GOALS: Experience, Immerse, Share ( Team 146 – Orientation Day )

Today was Team #146’s first day together in India: Emily, Jo Carol, Yvonne, and myself. After a FANTASTIC breakfast, Stephen led us through our orientation, which consisted of team introduction, descriptions of our work projects, the weekly schedule, and team goals. Agreeing as a team what we wanted to accomplish throughout the upcoming weeks was […]

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Our Arrival in Tanzania

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 […]

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A Fulfilling and Wonderful Day

We started our day at the Assi Illam day care center, it being our second visit the children were more familiar with us and the warm welcome we received was heartwarming. We sang children rhymes, their favorite for the day being the ABC song. Their excitement and abundant energy was exhilarating especially as we ran […]

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“The Most Rewarding Day”

Today was one of the most rewarding days on this program. It started in the Assi Illam center, an orphanage that is converted into a day care in the morning to provide an income for the orphanage. When we arrived in the morning the children (all between the ages of 2-4) were excitedly running around […]

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First time an Exclusive Team from the UAE

Since it was a public Holiday and all the children were away, Stephen arranged for us to help him and his wife sheeba to cover the Earth box , and clean the library in Seams Children Center. We spent the whole morning there and we finished covering and watering the plants and cleaned and organised half […]

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