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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 each). We started with the 5th grade class. The children greeted […]

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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 after our visit to Pamplona, I would have to […]

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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 speak a lot of Spanish). But all those miles do not come close to how […]

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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 was delayed by the onset of a cold and the […]

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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, we headed down the roadside with smiles on our faces and […]

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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 walked to school on yet another glorious Cretan morning we began to realise we a only […]

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Team 171’s Visit to Alto Progreso, Pamplona

Learn about our partnership with Sagrada Familia and your opportunity to help children in Peru here. Miraflores is a lovely place with green grass, colorful flowers, and fountains gracing the center of many chaotic traffic circles. I barely notice the standard gray sky covering Lima’s limits as we head a little northeast of the butterfly […]

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I Came Here Thinking…

Volunteering at PPA

If you are thinking about volunteering in Peru and working with children, here are two testimonies about volunteering at PPA so that you get an idea of what it’s like.  By Lexi Strictland Coming into this experience of volunteering at PPA I did not know what to expect. I thought that maybe the kids would not […]

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5th and 6th grade.

Thursday, July 24, 2014: Message of the day: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of your dreams”                               Eleanor Roosevelt   Our team has created a nice routine that seems to be going well for our 5th and 6th grade class. We begin each day by having them answer a question about themselves. […]

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Another Chapter of Global Understanding

Another Chapter of Global Understanding

Will, a volunteer serving in Poland, talks about one of his last days teaching English to Polish children, another chapter of global understanding. Today was another chapter of global understanding chock full of activity. We began the morning as we always do with a wonderful breakfast. This one consisted of crepes with a fruit jam […]

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