Namibia Summer NOW!
Montage of Summer Memories
"I truly cannot express in words what this summer has meant to me! The people I have met and the experiences I have had. I am forever changed! I left the US knowing that I wanted to find a career that allowed me to help people, and contribute to the world in a positive way. I am now leaving Namibia knowing exactly what I will do with the rest of my life. I have learned how to serve people apposed to 'help' people. I have learned life skills that I never thought I would need, and most of all I have learned how to love people the right way!"
A friend of Anna Perusse, Namibia Summer Volunteer, created a video compiling photos of her and her students this summer. Enjoy!
Far Away From Cambridge
"...I found myself teaching my grade eight math classes that King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk—grade nine physical sciences got an earful about metric prefixes, too, after I started grading their tests. When we learned about states of matter, I brought in oobleck—a suspension of cornstarch in water—the non-Newtonian fluid of choice back in elementary school. I reminded my math classes endlessly that Cartesian coordinates were over, then up, over, then up, walking across to the ladder and then climbing up, hearing echoes of my fifth-grade teacher all the while. Memories of classroom Jeopardy games and the arithmetic order of operations—Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally—surfaced from the deep. Just when I’d thought I was taking on a new role, I became a chimera of every teacher I’d ever had."
Namibia Summer Volunteer, Katherine Xue describes what lead her to teach in Africa this past summer and the experiences she carries with her now that she is back at Harvard. Read her full article published in Harvard Magazine.
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