Archives: Fellow Updates

Life Under a Mosquito Net

Luca Sassi

2019-03-20

When I describe my time here in Thienaba I think it as living in two worlds at the same time. I have my first and main world, which is the one when I’m awake and fulfilling all my daily activities. My second world is once I get under my mosquito net in my room and...

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Daily Routines

Luca Sassi

2019-03-20

I live in a small village called Thienaba about 20km away from Thies (a major city of Senegal). In here is always very calm. Houses are widely spread between one and another and most of the citizens have animals such as chickens, sheeps, goats, donkeys, horses and more (in my case we have 6 sheeps)....

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Who am I?

Luca Sassi

2019-03-20

If you know me for the past 18 years of my life you probably know me as Luca Sassi…. maybe my full name if you know me well, but not in here, not in this country. The moment I took my first step in what is now my home I saw a woman, who the...

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Coincidences

Jack Swartzentruber

2019-03-20

[image: f793543d-319c-4b49-9900-11480ddb6ab2 (1).JPG] Sometimes, life presents us with coincidences and connections that almost seem unbelievable. At the beginning of my time in India, my host mom told me that she was going to take a three-week trip to the United States and Canada, both to see family and for work purposes (she works for an...

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A Day in Hyderabad

Jack Swartzentruber

2019-03-20

A Day in Hyderabad Here’s a quick snapshot of an average day of my life in Hyderabad. 7:00 am Every day I wake up at 7 am to do my morning chores. Usually my job is to walk over to the hibiscus tree nearby to our house and pick the flowers that my family uses...

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About hikes and travels

Lynn Drescher

2019-03-19

Here are some pictures summarizing nature explorations, the Carnaval in Laguna, trips to Curitiba and the waterfalls in Iguaçu.

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The calm during the storm

Aissatou Tagaty Badio

2019-03-19

March 2019 I wanna go home. It is 9:03 AM. I am sitting down in the middle of my room, looking at my screen. I just paused my music to listen to the birds’ singing. The melody is sereine, ecstatic and it gives me a sense of melancholy. It’s cold, no, it’s freezing, and I...

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