Back in Bhutan
This morning, with the clouds low in the valley, and the mists rising through the pines from the ruddy hillside, the team sat for our first breakfast back in Bhutan. This year, we will be hosting the 21 students...
A Final Bow For The Tajikistan Workshop
After the long night, our 6:30 AM wake-up call made for an early morning. The normal routine…wake, shower, breakfast with the team, then jump in the car at 8 AM to head over to the Lycee for our last...
Day Four: Finishing Things Off
What can we tell you about today…we began the day on schedule, with the car picking us up at 8:30am to head back over to the school. Today was presentation day, which means that Fred, Wendy, Tony, and Mike...
Day Three: Dentists and Power Plants
For each of our workshops, we partner with a local NGO to help plan things on the ground. By working with a local organization, we have the infrastructure in place to help us make the workshop happen and who...
Day Two: Capturing Organized Chaos
Take forty or so adorable little gremlins (aged 3-5), put them in a room filled with books, building blocks, paint, crayons and musical instruments, and set a handful of incredibly talented teachers to shape their young minds…and you get...
Day One: An Introduction to Storytelling
(For those who read my post from yesterday: of course, as soon as we arrived, we found out that two of the teachers who had joined us in the previous night’s festivities were going to be with us for...
Planning and the Party
At our hotel, the Serena Khorog, we had breakfast, met with our NGO coordinator, and generally nursed our wounds from the drive from Dushanbe. Nakat and Haidar, the CEO and Program Coordinator for the Aga Khan Foundation (our NGO...
Welcome to Tajikistan
Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Nashville and Rochester. Our crew traveled halfway around the northern hemisphere this time to meet in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. We arrived at 4 a.m. and had time for a 1.5 hour nap at...
The Wrap-Up In Nicaragua
As we awoke Saturday morning, the fog filled the valley and from the balcony of the La Sombra to the point where you could barely discern the trees at the edge of the property. The bird singing in the...
Day 5: Honey and Health Centers
Yesterday, two of our student groups did a location shoot at a forest reserve where Cen, a local NGO, sponsors a honey production and job training program. The organization trains people from local communities to properly care for bees,...