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India Team 137 Journal Excerpts – Part 4

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 Message of day: They may not remember your name, your ago, or anything you said, but they will remember your smile and the joy you brought to them. Day 3 is complete. We ventured once again back to the Christ King school and spent another hour each with 4th and 5th […]

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ST. LUCIANS’ DIFFERENCES IN ACHIEVEMENT

We began at the Global Volunteers Resource Room at JJ’s, selecting some donated materials to add to the curriculum at Kids Steps. Carolyn and Susan spent the day at Kids Steps, including helping the children learn to write their own names; about a third of the four and five year olds are unable to do […]

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“I Feel Like a Real Teacher”

Today was a relatively busy day, but it was interesting and great. I feel like I became a real teacher. This morning I woke up at 6:30 as usual, I had breakfast, then I went to the school. I was somehow nervous because it would be my first time to teach a class. Even though […]

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A Place Not So Famous

I think people should travel to places which are not famous, or places which are hard to reach, like Pomerni and Iringa, because in this way they will have experiences that they’ve never had, see things that they’ve never seen, not like going to London to check out the Big Ben, which most likely you’ve […]

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A New Day in Africa

Yesterday was my first day in Africa. The sea shore of Dar es salaam was very beautiful, especially when right before dark. We had dinner in a restaurant near the sea, so I got the chance to see the wonderful sunset. During the dinner, everybody gave a short introduction about themselves, so that the leader […]

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The Children Make all the Difference – St. Lucia

The task in my mind start to ponder as I am getting off the bus today. What can I do to truly make a difference at the school today? The kids smiling and greeting us as we exited can only put bigger smiles on our face! The true joy of happiness fills my heart instantly! […]

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Helping Kids With So Much Potential in St. Lucia

helping kids in St. Lucia

Overall, it was a really good day helping kids with so much potential in St. Lucia.  I’ve been working at Kids Step Early Learning Center, where this morning, we had our daily assembly of singing songs and announcing news. When we switched off into our separate teaching groups, I read a book to the tiny […]

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Making Progress Through Hundreds of Interactions

Some volunteers were able to participate in an early morning yoga class offered by one of the volunteers. We met for an excellent breakfast and had our team meeting right after breakfast.  Warren drove all the volunteers to their assigned locations. It was a rainy day, but there were periods of clear weather. I was […]

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Helping the children makes me happy

                  Today was a very good day. I helped with both classes – the babies and the three-year-olds. Hannah, Rita, Olivia, Alexandra, Mark, Amy, and my mom stayed with their classes from yesterday. I am getting to know the babies and the three-year-olds very well and it […]

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English Teaching in Hanoi – November 13

Today is our second day working.  The NBK group didn’t have to be at the school until the afternoon, while the Blind-Link group was on basically the same schedule as the day before. John was trying to figure out his FaceBook address so he could give it out in class for those that asked. Linda […]

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