"No one can make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little"
- Edmund Burke
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I’m Jennifer, and I just graduated from Groton-Dunstable Regional High School. I love learning (although I’m often not that crazy about going to school) and am especially interested in English, history, art, and foreign language. I am thrilled to be able to take this trip around the world even if it means starting college a year later than all of my friends; it’s worth postponing college by a year to be able to see so much and help so many people.
Of course, there are people who are hard to leave behind. But I’m looking forward to our adventure. I’m reassuring myself that the people I love will still be there for me when I get back, and am getting ready to experience things that are brand new to me.
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We were starting to get a little nervous about our stay in Kenya. What would we eat? Would there be enough water? Was there electricity? We finally got some answers. Also, some information about the well we are funding there.
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Do you suffer from stage fright? I become a character in a puppet show with about 30 seconds of preparation.
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I never expected Pompeii to have much of an impression on me- I could not have been more mistaken. The city connected me to the past in a way I have never experienced before. It is one of the greatest things I have seen in my life.
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How do you teach children about the economic, political, environmental, and human rights issues surrounding the oil industry? Turn it all into a game, of course! The merits of using games to teach hard subjects.
Read more »Italy is a country breathtaking variety- but from our experience, not so much in the food department.
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Discovering new places, and new types of places
Bonn, Germany was a beautiful little city, and I only wish I had been able to explore more of it. Unfortunately administrative work had completely caught up with us at that point and we couldn’t waste the perfect internet that the hotel provided. I saw enough of Bonn, [...]
Although I certainly knew that there would be significant differences between America and Europe, I did not count on how different methods of transportation could be. Some things were similar no matter where we went- every city had a metro, for example- but others were surprisingly different.
Bikes rule
In Amsterdam, bikes were everywhere. Between the tram [...]
One of the most common stereotypes about people in other countries, at least in America, is that French people are snobby and even mean. They are arrogant about their language, and will refuse to speak English or refuse to respond to visitors attempts to speak French. And although I often scorn stereotypes and go [...]
Read more »After dinner at a cozy pub, we began our walk to the Globe. We were there before I realized it, and suddenly our tickets were being taken and we passed through a pair of black gates into a small courtyard. Then we traveled up flights of wooden stairs until we got to our seats in [...]
Read more »Right now I’m lying on the sidewalk outside of a Moscow train station, waiting for the 4 am train. It’s probably around 1:30. Moscow has been filled with smoke from the wildfires in Russia. This morning we emerged from the hostel to find ever street and alley filled with this white smoke, blurring everything in [...]
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