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Greetings!
You've heard from last years students in recent months. They're busy with some exciting summer jobs now (interning in a local congressman's office and working on environmental campaigns with the Fund for Public Interest are just two) and getting ready to go to college in the fall. But next year's TBB students are filling out visa forms and beginning their summer reading. This month, we'd like to feature a few words from one of them...
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Perspective
by TBB Student Silviano Valdez
 I am the first one in my family going to college, and I want to do as much as I can with my education. I believe Thinking Beyond Borders will extend and transform my knowledge, and lead me into taking action that will create positive social change.
At home I can't help but feel that there is a lack of understanding and sensitivity towards unfamiliar ways of living. I live in a border town, was born in Mexico, and I am not completely fluent in Spanish. When I am in Mexico I am called an American and when I am in the United States I am called a Mexican. Read More
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TBB Featured in Harvard Ed. Magazine
 No Gap in This Year
By Lory Hough
It's called many things. Time out. Time off. Year off. Deferred year.
And perhaps most commonly, gap year. But in many ways, the phrases are
misleading, especially for the teenagers enrolled in Thinking Beyond
Borders, a new program cocreated by former Peace Corps volunteer Robin
Pendoley, Ed.M.'03, that allows students taking off the year between
high school and college to travel the world and explore international
development through service projects. In Bua, a small village in
Ecuador, the students hand-dug a well for a community center and built
ecological toilets for local schools. In Kunming, a city of 5 million
in China, they taught English at three schools. And in Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam, they worked with the Waste Collectors Union sifting
through trash in an effort to learn about recycling and then hosted a
student environmental conference with more than 60 local university
students.
Read Complete Article
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 An Evening with James Blake
James Blake is hosting a cocktail party in Fairfield on August
25th to help raise money for the Thinking Beyond Borders scholarship
fund. Come out before the start of the US Open and enjoy a very fun
night of music, auction items, free drinks, hors'd'oeuvres and a chance
to learn about the exciting work of TBB.
Learn More and Purchace Tickets
Email Andrea to donate items for Auction
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 Worlds Apart: US Schools and the Global Economy
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 Book Review:
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa by Dambisa Moyo
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Thanks for reading!
Sandy Pendoley
Co-Founder
Thinking Beyond Borders
www.thinkingbeyondborders.org
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