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Hadley Duquette
2019-09-24
Garab The tree. It brings my family together as we all sit in its shade while cooking lunch, preparing for a party, or just chatting. For the past two weeks or so I've spent hours just sitting under this tree. Most of the time I just sit and watch all of my little siblings running...
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Eleanor Ross
2019-09-24
I’ve learned to realize that everything eventually comes full circle. The awkward moments seem to right themselves over time, and, in my case, within two days. For the awkward half of the story, the fact is that my second or third day in Senegal, I was peed on. I had gone outside to look at...
Read MoreSo, I have a new name
Eleanor Ross
2019-09-24
I love my name. But it took a long way to get here. Years of people singing “Eleanor Rigby” and telling me their grandma’s name was “Eleanor” fueled a hatred in me for my name so strong, I forced my friends and family to call me Ellie. Well, at least for a while. But over...
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From a mother to another.
Abdallah Salha
2019-09-19
The memory of the last mom hug that I got upon my departure from Gaza is still recurring in my mind since August 2017. After over two years of education at UWCRCN in Norway and other travels, I have arrived in Senegal to spend the 7 months ahead. After a week of an in-country orientation,...
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First Week Joys and Challenges
Olivia Fiscal
2019-09-15
Wow! Its been 3 weeks since I left the U.S., 2 weeks since I left California and 1 week of living with my host family. There is so much to talk about but I will give you an insight on what has been good for me so far and what has not been so good...
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Magni Fi!
Lola Ibanez
2019-09-14
People have always been my motivation, my source of energy and accomplishments. That is why I love to travel, to fly from country to country, looking for people with the same language of perdition and adaptation. Cause more than to places, buildings or objects, we belong to the memories that anchor us to them. I...
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Ndomor, My New Home
Emma Peterson
2019-09-13
-Me and a few of my family members- As the school year came to an end, I started thinking seriously about how to prepare for my year in Senegal. What do you bring to a place that you can hardly even imagine? So I put together a bag filled with exactly 50.0 lbs of...
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Angie Flores
2019-09-10
I met my second family 17,038 km far away from Peru. I was born in Peru and I consider that diverse and colorful country as my home. But, the ‘little’ town of Changshu in China is also home to me. Thanks to the uwc movement, I had the opportunity to live and study in Changshu...
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You Know You are in Senegal When
Drew Erickson
2019-09-10
You know you are in Senegal when… when “bug spray, sunscreen, malaria pill” becomes the most important part of your morning routine when you drift off to sleep to the sound of goats just outside your window when any and every conversation begins with a friendly “asalaa maalekum” when the power goes out almost… routinely ...
Read MoreMy playlist to Taranga
Wonu Falae
2019-09-09
There’s only one good way to go out. Not with a bang, or loud memorable moments, not with all smiles and a hopeful heart, not with doubts and fears either. It’s with a clear stream of consciousness and one simple phrase; “Press play”. That’s how I went out. Well, mostly……kind of?…..not really?..…wanted to? For the...
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Aldo Ivan Ramirez Ocampo
2019-09-05
Despierta When you leave your shoes Next to mine, I don’t know well I don’t understand well if I am Building you a future Or healing me a past But I know, this story didn’t end When I leave my shoes Next to yours, I don’t know well I don’t understand well if I...
Read MoreThe Plurality of Home
Baseer Khan
2019-09-04
Home. A word that conveys a thousand different emotions, a thousand different reactions, with a variety of different meanings. The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘Home’ as: (noun) the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household By that definition home for me currently is nowhere. Currently, I do...
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