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Marguerite LeLaurin
Marguerite's unique high school experience confirmed her commitment "to engage in a globally aware education that would develop my role as a citizen of the world." In the words of her mentor, "Marguerite views every situation in the best possible light. She has an inquiring mind, is open to new ideas, receptive to instruction and sees every encounter as a learning opportunity." A visit to Heifer International World Headquarters at the start of her freshman year -- to simulate the experience of global poverty -- was, in her words, a "paradigm shift." Admired as an authentic young woman with contagious enthusiasm and integrity, Marguerite was nominated for the Gold Star Leadership Project and was awarded a Distinguished Delegate Award of Model United Nations. A teacher once described her as possessing "an intellect beyond her years and compassion beyond her experience." Marguerite's passion is to gain insight into the realities of global issues and to facilitate development alongside those in the field.a night for Los Patojos.
It takes only one idea, progressing from the mind, through the mouth, to the masses, and into reality, to bring about a revolution. The realization of just one idea can usher in the dawn of a world-wide change.
In the year of 1660 the Museo del Libro de Antigua harbored in its walls the first printing press in all of Central America. In a time of archaic thinking, when evils preyed more than ever on the ignorance of the public, the printing press lent itself to the masses as a foundation of enlightenment. Through this one machine, the rapid transference of progressive ideas led to a movement of change. Here and around the world, the spread of impassioned and inventive thinking evolved into action. the opportunity the printing press provided, for knowledge, for equity, for progress, fueled a desire for social improvement- and from this weapon against ignorance, an imprint upon history was made, and the world was ever-changed. Read more…
Pivotal Moment
oh heavens -
Inevitably my life is changing, and with it so must I.
I feel the perpetual momentum of time, always moving, pushing and prodding, propelling me forward.
Days slide through and behind me, passing, approaching with frantic pace to my departure – the pivotal moment.
From this point, for me, nearly everything will be different. I will be wound round through a torrent of unpredictability. These years spent, compiling elements of comforts to a nest of well known, well loved habits and routines - I will leave them behind. Their significance, carved into the walls of my soul, will remain only in the impact they’ve impressed upon me. These I will allow to wane beneath the magnitude of what is to come. They will be a casualty to the brooding nature of the unwritten future.
and so it begins…
As my senior year came to its finish, I was faced with a most intimidating situation. Like others of my age and my position, it came time for me to consider how I would move forward with my life, in which of endless options of direction.
I was made to consider what meant most to me. The responsibility of the choices I was to be making brought the need to evaluate my priorities, to make best guesses as to what would fulfill and nourish my passions. How to create in myself a wealth of life and interest, to evolve my mind and spirit to better experience the journey that lays long and unknown before me?
Prime time for the thinking cap. Read more…
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- Particularly loved "one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country" @NickKristof - http://bit.ly/awW5pR
- Kristof cites GCY as he stresses the need 4 Americans 2 embed in other cultures - it's a national priority http://nyti.ms/aUhmOT
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