Hi Everyone,
I hope you're all doing fabulously, and I miss you all terribly! I am coming to you with a favor - I have created a "Global Consultants" activity group at my school and we begin our Activity Day this Wednesday (10/3). Essentially, I created the "Global Consultants" as a way to continue my interest in travel, culture, and this notion of global citizenship and cultural awareness that we studied so intently while in London. I am very interested, and determined, in trying to expand the views of the students at my school and to get them to gain a "cultural lens" to help them be exposed to new perspectives. With this said - the goal of GC is to help students study and learn more about different cultures, and hopefully develop some sort of electronic pen-pal/Skype buddy system with sister schools elsewhere in this world. Now I'm coming to you...do any of you know of some international schools that do something like this, or something similar? Carly and Jon - would either of you be interested in joining in on this? The club will only meet six times this fall, and (I'm hoping) again for another six times in the spring. It's tough, because I have a lot to crunch in all at once, but let me know if anyone is interested and/or has any ideas they'd like to share.
Thanks! Miss you all - if you're ever wondering what to do on a random day, please come visit me in Danbury! I'd love to see you all :)
Jill
Jill this sounds awesome! I wish I knew of some other schools that you could connect with but maybe you can ask the staff at your school? Also a thought might be to try and get in touch with some of the schools we worked with while in London, I'm sure David could get you in touch with them! Good luck :)
ReplyDeleteJill I have been meaning to write to you but I dont think I have your e-mail address. Tomorrow morning I am meeting with the woman about Zambia and running the after school program I want to start by her. It is very similar to what you are looking to do so maybe we can make this work. I probably will not get mine going until the end of November is the only problem so it might have to be for the second semester.. we can talk details if Linda thinks it is a good idea.
ReplyDeleteCarly! I'm so sorry I just saw this - for some reasons the comments don't link to my email. Regardless, my email is jillian.zabrocky@gmail.com - keep me posted on what she says/what you guys discuss!
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