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| Enjoying Jane's musical talents around the baby grand piano |
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| Leopold, our Belgian tech guru. |
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| Sasmita and Perry brainstorming on UN presentation |
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| Everyone hard at work... |
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| Exploring the creative process with our guest speaker, Geoff Skigen, CEO of Motivate Inc. |
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| Game night...are we having fun yet? |
This week has been action packed and filled with lots of intellectual information as well as activities. Dr. Arthur Kian presented two excellent seminars on International Relations which everyone participated in. Covering topics from genocide in Yugoslavia, to nuclear proliferation, the students engaged in a lively discussion including possible solutions to these larger global problems that face our world leaders today.
They also had a seminar on college essays and resumes, which encouraged them to focus on their upcoming years and personal goals. Our guest speaker Mr. Geoff Skigen presented an inspiring and informative seminar on marketing, motivation and the creative process which was beneficial in all ways.
Yesterday we took the train into San Francisco, attended a very exciting San Francisco Giants game, who ended up beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-0. It was a new experience for our international students, giving them a taste of a true american past time. Today we are in the classroom on the Stanford campus, and our guest speaker, Camille Jones is speaking on Environmental Science and Policy. She will be also be addressing the movie we watched called " For the love of Water, " and teaching us how to set up town meetings to give the students tools for making change at the local level.
We have had technical difficulties posting our photos, but please be patient. We promise to get them up later today. Thank you for sending such wonderful, respectful, intelligent and insightful students to our program. We all enjoy their energy, leadership, humor, curiousity and committment to learning. We continue to have fun as a small community of leaders whether we are in the classroom, enjoying evening activities or sharing our stories at other moments throughout our busy nights and days!
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| First stop, a windy day at the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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| Tracy (program director) and Tesa (academic director)...a moment at the SOMA |
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| Lunch at Union Square |
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| Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco |
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| Kirsten, Genie, and Haley checking out the view. |
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| The girls having lunch at Union Square, San Francisco |
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| Jane, Shelby, and Alex on the Maguerite - the campus bus |
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| Dr. Tesa E. Leonce, Academic Director, on the bus to San Francisco |
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| Roommates: Sama and Shelby on the way to the Giants game. |
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| Roommates: Genie and Kirsten |
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| "Take me out to the ball game"...AT&T Stadium, San Francisco |
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| We're winning! Tracy and Ellen at the Giants game |
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| Sold out game for the World Series champions |
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| Leadership Academy |
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| "I got my ice tea!" |
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| Some of the girls having fun at the Giants game |
Sincerely,
Tracy Campbell
Program Director
Tesa Leonce
Academic Director
Ellen Spindel
Dean of Students
