Hello!
Welcome to this blog. :D I must confess I've never blogged before so I'm not quite sure how to do this. I suppose quickly introducing myself and this blog would be a good way to start. Here goes!
My name is David Hong and I am currently a rising junior at Duke University in the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship Program. As a part of our program, we are all sent to serve abroad. We hope that through this International Summer of Service our program will make a lasting impact in places of need around the world, and maybe even find that these experiences have left a lasting impact on us as well. For my International Summer of Service, I am spending two months in Cape Town, South Africa to develop and teach a robotics course at Hyde Park Primary School. I am also training a teacher at the school, Mr. Zhaun Borcherds, to offer the course after I leave. There is much more to say about this project, the school, my host family, and how I came upon this opportunity. Perhaps a few later blog posts would be better suited for that. However, I would like to quickly thank Projects Abroad and the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship for making this opportunity possible. I have many others to thank, but will leave that for my post about how I came upon this opportunity. Anyway, I suppose that all gives a decent idea of who I am and what I'm up to!
Now, a bit about this blog. Perhaps the best way to introduce this blog is to answer the question: What is the purpose of this blog? As I think back, I decided to write this blog primarily to share the progress here with folks back home. It would serve as a regular update of the student's work in this robotics class. Indeed this is still the purpose of this blog, but I would like to expand it. I hope this blog may even be able to broadcast the students hard work and great potential to the world. Perhaps seeing these students make robots may even inspire us all to believe that indeed anything is possible. We need only set our minds to it.
Well, I think that introduces me and this blog. I must confess that I actually arrived two weeks ago and haven't written any other posts yet. I have a lot of catching up to do! I hope you enjoy reading this blog and seeing the work being done here in Cape Town. May it be a blessing to you.
Warmly,
David
Welcome to this blog. :D I must confess I've never blogged before so I'm not quite sure how to do this. I suppose quickly introducing myself and this blog would be a good way to start. Here goes!
My name is David Hong and I am currently a rising junior at Duke University in the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship Program. As a part of our program, we are all sent to serve abroad. We hope that through this International Summer of Service our program will make a lasting impact in places of need around the world, and maybe even find that these experiences have left a lasting impact on us as well. For my International Summer of Service, I am spending two months in Cape Town, South Africa to develop and teach a robotics course at Hyde Park Primary School. I am also training a teacher at the school, Mr. Zhaun Borcherds, to offer the course after I leave. There is much more to say about this project, the school, my host family, and how I came upon this opportunity. Perhaps a few later blog posts would be better suited for that. However, I would like to quickly thank Projects Abroad and the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship for making this opportunity possible. I have many others to thank, but will leave that for my post about how I came upon this opportunity. Anyway, I suppose that all gives a decent idea of who I am and what I'm up to!
Now, a bit about this blog. Perhaps the best way to introduce this blog is to answer the question: What is the purpose of this blog? As I think back, I decided to write this blog primarily to share the progress here with folks back home. It would serve as a regular update of the student's work in this robotics class. Indeed this is still the purpose of this blog, but I would like to expand it. I hope this blog may even be able to broadcast the students hard work and great potential to the world. Perhaps seeing these students make robots may even inspire us all to believe that indeed anything is possible. We need only set our minds to it.
Well, I think that introduces me and this blog. I must confess that I actually arrived two weeks ago and haven't written any other posts yet. I have a lot of catching up to do! I hope you enjoy reading this blog and seeing the work being done here in Cape Town. May it be a blessing to you.
Warmly,
David
WHAT? you've already been there for two weeks? :O updates and pictures please! :) gosh, this is so exciting.
ReplyDeleteis this blog also for your program, or is it just for us? :D
Haha, indeed I have been here for...actually over two weeks now! How the time flies!
ReplyDeleteI'm catching up on posts and will be posting a lot more this week, including photos and even videos. :D
I suppose this blog is for anyone. I'm using this to keep anyone interested up to date on progress here. :)