Georgia School as a Laboratory for Getting Along
By WARREN ST. JOHN
Published: December 25, 2007
an article in the nytimes about a charter school in georgia focused on the education of refugees
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Sis sent me the link. The story includes a video piece. I watched it with some Burmese speakers — they dug the [...]
I’m leaving mae sot again, going back to Chiang Mai where I’ll finish some of the web work I started here, visit with some student groups, perhaps teach more people to maintain sites in Chiang Mai (pending a few return calls), definitely to practice some anusara (it’s been nearly a year since i have), and [...]
Three F’s
We want three F’s
Three Fs we want
First, we want Freedom
We want freedom for our future
Second, we want Friendship
We want friendship between our army and our people
Third, we want food
We want food to live peacefully
-Aung Way, Burmese poet
Before walking out the door of the nondescript home in the outskirts of Mae Sot, Aung Way – [...]
i taught at umphium camp this week — led a narrative writing workshop with some students, ages 17-25. we did a little oral storytelling and then the students made short narratives about their lives — some wrote about their journey from burma to thailand, some about their villages in burma, some about their lives [...]
i’m back in mae sot. waiting to leave for umphium camp for a few days where i’ll lead a workshop with students at EIP, a special school program in the camp, and try to visit the midwives in the clinic.
the school is part of a similar initiative as the Wide Horizons school (in Mae [...]