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Paula Medina

Paula Medina is passionate about sharing and finding happiness in the smallest and simplest things. She is involved in nature conservation, the fight for equal human rights and promoting international and intercultural understanding. Her goals for the year are to learn and explore about life, much further than any classroom could teach her; she dreams with being able to immerse herself in the community and the culture, creating the maximum possible exchange of ideas with the locals. What inspire her the most is to see how youth all around the world take awareness of their lives and of their environment, questioning what surrounds them in order to create a better world.

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Reflection about Yaye Fatou Dieng

Paula Medina

2019-04-29

*29 de Abril de 2019* El día que llegué a mi casa senegalesa, me dijo mi Yaay que a partir de ese momento, yo me llamaría Yaye Fatou. Mi apellido sería Dieng, porque así se apellidaba mi nueva familia senegalesa. Yaye Fatou Dieng. Y yo, que probablemente no entendí ni una tercera parte de lo...

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Manifest about ants and heroes

Paula Medina

2019-04-16

*February 17th 2019* “If any of you, students, are curious for a while, go and observe the ants in their daily routine, you will see that they all follow a perfect line. Everyone marches following the one in front of them, without deviating from the norm, without trying to jump the queue, without following a...

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Trazas de pensamientos mañaneros

Paula Medina

2019-01-14

January 14th 2018 Today we don’t have Wolof class in the morning. So I take the path to the outskirts of my town, what I call the forest. I walk exchanging some ¨Salammalekum¨, I open my eyes to the beauty of the baobabs and I discover a new small town surrounded by peace and calmness....

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ATTAYA

Paula Medina

2018-11-21

29th October 2018 Attaya is sitting under a tree shade. Attaya is an invitation to discover someone new. Attaya is conversation. Attaya is calmness. Attaya is sharing. Attaya is a constant welcome. Some days ago, in one of our explorations around our town, we ended up in the back garden of a local family. In...

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Ndank-ndank

Paula Medina

2018-10-29

10 Sept 2018 With every new sunrise, there’s laugh, heat and learnings. I feel I can now assure how essential language is. Without communication, there’s no interaction, and so there’s no socialisation, inhibiting life in society. With this feeling of chaos and lack of sense of belonging yet, I realise how humans are without doubt...

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Ndank-ndank

Paula Medina

2018-10-16

10 Sept 2018 With every new sunrise, there’s laugh, heat and learnings. I feel I can now assure how essential language is. Without communication, there’s no interaction, and so there’s no socialisation, inhibiting life in society. With this feeling of chaos and lack of sense of belonging yet, I realise how humans are without doubt...

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Dalal ak jàmm!

Paula Medina

2018-10-06

8 Sept 2018 Today I arrived to my host family in this yet unknown country for me. My senegalese name is ‘Yaay Faatu’, the identity with which I will be recognised by my new neighbours. The life awaiting for me at this point is to observe, learn, play and feel necessary confusion. Someone told me...

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Bifurcaciones

Paula Medina

2018-08-18

Two years ago, I started a life changing experience. I was offered a scholarship to attend UWCSEA, meaning I was going to be spending two years in Singapore in an international school supported by values based on peace, diversity and international understanding. I refer to that experience as a rollercoaster; with ups, downs, and with...

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