2019-03-13
In September, Abby Falik, the CEO and founder of GCY, gave us one important advice: “You will leave when you start asking the right questions.” So, here are my questions I wonder: 1. How can we effectively challenge the single story people have about Africa? 2. How can we start decolonising our vocabulary and behaviour?...
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I always knew that my thinking and my opinions are shaped by my culture, langauge and history. Isn’t that an obvious fact? Isn’t everyone aware that how they think evolves from factors that we just cannot control? However, is being aware of this enough if we do not actively think outside our own cultural box?...
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MY PERSONAL IMPASSE Since coming to Brazil and working at R3 Animal , I am constantly confronted with the challenging irony that is my relationship to animals and the environment. As much as I am fascinated by wildlife (it was the first “encyclopedic passion” that I had) and fostered a great love for nature and...
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2019-03-13
It was about 10:30 am, and we had just wrapped up our visit to the Taj Mahal. We exited from the south gate onto a street of noisy vendors who beckoned us into their shops, waving magnets and snow globes and other Taj paraphernalia. We wandered the streets looking for a quiet and moderately priced...
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Everyday I take the bus to and from the school I work at. I have a bus I take in the mornings which is suppose to come at 8:55, and going back home in the afternoon I take the 4:55 bus home. Over the past six months of riding the bus I have become friendly...
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2019-03-12
[image: image.png] *Courtesy of Tisch College* One of the biggest worries that I had coming into this year abroad in Hyderabad, India was not making connections to the people around me. For one, I couldn’t speak Hindi or Telugu (the state language of Telangana). I stuck out like a sore-thumb due to my big, curly...
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2019-03-12
To have all my bases covered, after returning from Goa I flew to the north to head to the yoga capital of the world, otherwise known as Rishikesh. It lays at the base of the Himalayas, and the holy Ganga river flows right through the city. I stayed up there for about a week at...
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