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| [Birthday weekend at Disneyland!] |
With September coming to a close, Back To School time is in full gear, whether it be K-12, college, grad school, or even sending your own kids to school. The summer fun (and my birthday month of festivities) is winding down. With that, the { dinner conversation } tends to lead to the topic of education.
We'll start off with a scandalous and shocking reveal of a little secret that I rarely share.
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Backstory: Back when I was in college, I was part of a student-run organization called Alternative Breaks @ UCSD. Focusing on addressing social justice issues, we trained and sent out groups of students to serve communities in need during spring or summer break, with the intent to not only serve those communities, but learn a thing or two about living a life in service to others.
In my first year participating in the program, I served as a Site Leader, leading a group of students to plan and implement a volunteer trip to San Ignacio, Belize to do public health outreach -- a topic that I was (and am still) very passionate about.
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| [My Team: Alternative Breaks Belize 2009] |
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| [These are students from one of the schools at which we volunteered. We taught them about healthy eating and disease prevention.] |
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| [Showing off my pseudo-breakdancing skills in front of the Xunantunich Mayan Ruins. This was three years ago!] |
