Jordan's Pre-Trip Reflection

I am very excited to be going to India. This will be a life changing experience, and I cannot wait to experience this. We are going to leave tomorrow, and this is my first time out of the country. I am most looking forward to working with people from all over the world, and learning about other cultures and other views. This is all new for me, so I am not sure what to expect, and that makes me a little nervous. Over all I am so ready.

Kaycie's Pre India Reflection

It's the day before we go to India and I'm extremely excited, although stressed. I look forward to working with other teens around the world and learning more about their culture. It will be the experience of a lifetime. I hope to come back with many things to tell my peers. I am looking forward to the tours as well as the conference itself. It will be my first time at an event like this *(as well as my first time out of the country) so I really don't know what to expect. I will be reflecting throughout the trip of my encounters along the way!

Daniel's Pre - India Trip Reflection

The days leading up to the trip have dwindled down to two weeks and you can feel the tension. I have been asked by friends and family why I am still considering going half way around the world to a foreign country with all the dangers over there. The way I look at it ... this is a once in a lifetime chance to go see another part of the world. I have taken every precaution possible. I am glad to see that my friends who are not going are preparing to video skype us, so I can actually see them. The pictures below show our hotel and some of the places that we will be visiting.



Elephanta Island
The Trident Hotel

Juju Beach

Getting Ready to Head to Mumbai, India

We're so excited!  This February, the World Wide Wildcats are heading out on tour again, this time to the American School of Bombay for ASB Unplugged, the Flat Classroom MiniConference.  While we travel, our second through eighth grade classes will be immersing in everything India and skyping back with us! We're so excited!

This is a video a tourist made of Elephanta Island on January 10, 2010, where we will be traveling when we arrive.  We'll be skyping back with our classes and each person traveling will be assigned a class to email and keep up to date on the travels!

Foods of Qatar: See what we ate

Australian Teacher Anne Mirtschin put together this slide show with pictures of the food we ate at the Flat Classroom Conference.  Thought you'd like to see it.

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Tayler B actually ate some baby camel, which is not pictured - and he says it is sort of stringy.  To me, the best food was the chicken they served, of all kinds.  They had no pork at all so the sausages they served were chicken sausage. 

Betty and I LOVED the hummus and snacked a lot together, but the students did not care for it at all.  Quite a few places had western food and I ate a burger at TGI Fridays at the Vellagio mall on the last night - OH YUM!!

Home again

Hey everyone, I'm back from Qatar, and I'm really tired from the 30 hours of traveling that I did yesterday. Mrs. Azalee picked us up from the airport at 1 a.m. last night, and we finally arrived in Camilla at about 4:30 a.m. Let's just say I slept right through my 9 am wake-up, but I finally woke up at 10 am, and was able to make it back to school
at 11am. Well I'm tired, but I had a great experience, and I will be posting a reflection soon.

My Reflection on the Flat Classroom Conference

The First Day
The Flat Classroom Conference was one of the best experiences I have ever
had in my life. The first day was our introduction to the desert. We did not go to Qatar Academy, but we went to the Souk and went dune bashing. Since it was the holy day for the Islamic religion, most of the Souk shops were closed except for the Moroccan tea shop. They had some really good tea and waiters. They poured the tea from about a three foot height. After this we got to the fun part of the day. Dune bashing is an ATV lovers dream. We drifted down really steep slopes and sped across flats at speeds over 120 KPH. Then we ate an exotic dinner and prepared for the conference the next day.

The Beginning of the Conference
The next day was the first day of the conference. The first thing we did was eat lunch at the school. When I got to the school, I thought it was a palace. This school was the size of five Westwoods combined. The lunch was quite different but it was not bad at all. After lunch, we had the opening ceremony in the auditorium then went straight to the Student Summit room and met our team mates. I really enjoyed working with my team mates Nastassja, Antonia, and Yaqsan. Our teams name ended up being Eracism. We put our heads together and came up with a really good idea to stop racism across the world.

Racespace.edu
The idea we put forth was racespace.edu. Racespace.edu is supposed to be a website designed to help teenagers understand other cultures and learn ethnic differences between others around the world. The website is a debate site where teens debate about there differences and will hopefully understand why they stereotype cultures. The teens and adults not involved in the debate will have access to the websites backdoor chat window so they can give their opinion too. We plan to market this website using Myspace and Facebook because almost every teenager has one.

The Final Video
Since our idea made it into the final group we had to make an advertisement video for our presentation. We all gave very good ideas and put our heads together to create a really good video. Our strengths pulled us through to create a good video. Nastassja was the director of the video and pretty much told everyone what to do. She was like our moms in teenage form. I acted in most of the films clips. Unfortunately I was the bully every time. Antonia and Yaqsan were our editors for the films we shot. They were both really good with computer software. They could probably work for Microsoft. Our final video named Eracism is on the conference ning and your votes are greatly appreciated.

By: John Vereen