It’s been was great to work with some of our students from last year! Some of them are a little taller, some look a little older and some have even headed off to study at universities in other districts....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
Throughout the week of teaching during each of our workshops, all of the instructors show their work to the students. It is extremely inspirational as well as instructive. Not surprisingly, the students’ work often reflects the techniques seen in...
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,...
I wanted to share some photos from a location shoot with our students in Santa Rosa, a small village near El Cua in northwestern Nicaragua. We photographed the school children and the villagers to teach our students about storytelling...