Common Ground
November 16, 2009 · Print This Article
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Oliver from Hungary tells his Global Workshop how he views the election of Obama. During the Salsa dance elective, Rocio and Vicky from Brooklyn teach new moves to their friends.
Every summer in Virginia, at Legacy International’s 80 acre campus with beautiful trees, streams, and cabins, you find young people making friends and finding common ground.
A young man from Baghdad talks about some of the challanges he feels face his country while Liam from Massachusetts listens. Jason, a staff member and former college football player, teaches a group of US and internationals American football. The Green Your World workshop plants a fast growing vegetable in the garden and learns how this plant is grown in the mountains in Indonesia. Amanda the counselor maintains her crown as Queen of Ping Pong despite some heavy competition. Experience it all at GYV. Legacy International has been showing youth they can be global citizens for the past 30 years. Check out the Program Choices.
Hi Rendi!
We miss you out here too! I hope that you are doing well; what have you been up to since going back home?
And don’t forget, the Indonesians which was very excited meeting people from other countries!
I really miss that wonderful time!!
The Global Youth Village is an important experience not only for the youth involved but the staff as well. The relationships fostered and the opportunity to engage in open and honest dialogue has inspired me to return to school and study international relations. I am currently in Cambridge, MA and looking forward to returning to GYV in the summer of 2009 to enhance old relationships and develop new ones!
I’m looking forward to hearing more about the GYV village and the upcoming workshops!