2019-08-30
So- first blog, etc. etc., here we are. The last two weeks have been a wonderful whirlwind of bonding, introspection, serious talking, late nights, dumb jokes, and a whole lotta exploration, in every sense. GCY and Tufts training are very much the same- and yet somehow… different; it's hard to describe how. I feel a...
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2019-08-30
This is a photo taken during global launch in Stanford. I thought a lot about what my first blog should be about. Many ideas popped up, but I always came back to sharing the main reasons why I was going for a gap year instead of heading to college. So welcome to my first blog...
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2019-08-30
Photo: Making new friends at the Global Launch (with Sophia Miller, Senegal Cohort) When I grew up, I played outside. I used my time to climb every tree in the neighborhood, escape the soap in my mother’s hand when I said ill-mannered phrases such as “that’s stupid,” race my sister’s to the community pool on...
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“Never let your schooling interfere with your education” is a quote from Mark Twain that really speaks to me because it is something that I have been trying to explain to my family and friends back home in Burkina Faso. As some of them got the fact that all the learning those not happen behind...
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2019-08-30
If you were to walk through the Miller-Hermans house this week, you would find little piles everywhere. Boxes of tea and crackers in the kitchen, crucial documents in the office, and clothes stacked in the guest bedroom all waiting to be neatly shoved into a beat-up suitcase. But packing for the unknown is difficult. How...
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I have made several different stories all with wildly different perspectives in the days that I have been on this campus. I have written at my highest highs and my lowest lows and I am currently speaking from a place of great emotional upheaval (What else is new?). There are so many different feelings I...
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Today was the third day of Global Citizen Year’s Global Launch. At Global Launch I have been exposed to a caliber of diversity unlike anything I ever imagined. I could go on to explain all of the interesting learning we have been doing about the world around us and how we interact with it, but...
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