As I write this, I'm waiting for our students to return from their weXplore, a five-day excursion that takes students beyond their host city for immersive cultural experiences. For the past two months, we as a school have called Maun, Botswana, our home. It's a small town on the edge of the Okavango Delta and, for many travelers, a doorway into Africa. But Maun is only one perspective, and it...
Read More
APPLYING TO COLLEGE is a difficult process, and it’s often impossible to understand what goes on inside the minds of admissions officers. Story to College—an organization whose mission is to aid students’ writing of college essays through the creative process of storytelling—visited us last weekend to help our students find unique stories that will guide them through the college process and beyond.
TGS students already wrote personal memoirs in Thailand, so they were uniquely equipped to deepen their writing skills in this weekend-long workshop. In small groups and as a community, we shared important moments from our lives, recorded and transcribed them. We also used the writer’s process to edit these moments and turn them into evocative and realistic narratives that are sure to attract the attention of college admissions officers worldwide.
This week, students are completing the process through Skype conferencing with the dedicated Story to College staff. This will ensure that they take their essays through the final stages and give themselves a head-start in the application process.