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Shalom Rwanda: October 2010
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Saturday, October 16, 2010. Some wise friends have asked (and I hope future interviewers will too) what I've learned here. As the year is nearing it's close, I am happy to reflect on the many lessons that the learning community of Agahozo-Shalom gave me. In a couple of categories, here's some of the things ASYV has taught me. Some really tangible lessons:.
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Shalom Rwanda: December 2009
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Tuesday, December 22, 2009. The 2nd ever class of kids are here at Agahozo-Shalom (pictures of their welcoming soon) and while our jobs are to teach them, I'm already learning so much from their presence. So why is this the case? Well I'll likely learn more over the course of the year, but so far I have two guesses:. 2) Families teach values and bring comfo...
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Shalom Rwanda: Jobs in the Gulf of Mexico
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Thursday, June 3, 2010. Jobs in the Gulf of Mexico. Dear Mr. President,. I know you don't have so much time to read my blog (maybe only once a week, right? But, when you get the chance, I have a story and an idea for you. Why do these workers and ribbon-cables flank my rides to and from Kigali, you ask? These workers are laying fiber-optic cables. This lead...
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Shalom Rwanda: June 2010
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Friday, June 25, 2010. After muchakamuchaka is farm - an activity I also attend only periodically (for both of these traditions both attending AND not attending are rewarding choices for me.sometimes much needed sleep and sometimes much needed fun.talk about win win! Thursday, June 3, 2010. Jobs in the Gulf of Mexico. Dear Mr. President,. With the purpose o...
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Shalom Rwanda: Muchakamuchaka and Cultivating
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Friday, June 25, 2010. After muchakamuchaka is farm - an activity I also attend only periodically (for both of these traditions both attending AND not attending are rewarding choices for me.sometimes much needed sleep and sometimes much needed fun.talk about win win! June 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM. Oh, Micaela. Life is beautiful and so are you. Call Me with Skype.
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Shalom Rwanda: May 2010
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Sunday, May 30, 2010. Last weekend my belief that we can prevent conflict was shaken while my desire to figure out how to do it was strengthened. After my visit to Murambi Genocide Memorial, all I could think was "this could happen again.". Explains why he works at the memorial (taken from the memorial website. Thursday, May 27, 2010. And possible repeal ab...
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Shalom Rwanda: New Birth Control
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Thursday, May 27, 2010. As discussions of Don't Ask Don't Tell's implications. And possible repeal abound back home ( write your Congressperson here. We too discussed homosexuality here at the village this week. To "God didn't intend it" to "its great" to "why not? So not so similar). The kids were totally into it. "Of course we must respect them," they...
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Shalom Rwanda: August 2010
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Wednesday, August 18, 2010. A Very 5th of July Blog. As you can see by the title, I wrote this blog a long time ago. BUT, who doesn't want to read about what we once thought about the present? Rwanda's presidential election already happened, with almost no opposition to the incumbent President and with some upheaval beforehand. You can read about it here.
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Shalom Rwanda: November 2009
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Life updates during my yearlong placement in the Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. Looking forward to learning with you, so post your thoughts! Sunday, November 29, 2009. Let's Go to Rwanda! Today I start my voyage to Rwanda, where I'll be a member of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's. Jewish Service Corps at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village. Check out the links to the left to get more details on my big adventure. I hope you'll also be able to use this blog, twitter.
