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Calling all Globe Trotters!

Meet some of our members and learn about their experiences overseas...

Youth Information from Overseas

 

If you are a Globe Trotter and would like to tell about your experiences on this page,  just email and ask!


Maggie:
Peru: I was born there, in Lima. I don't remember anything, except that I had to fly home before I learned to walk.

Poland: still don't remember much since I was only two and three. Mom says I  liked the trees and the flowers and the autumn chestnuts and the golden light.

London: the best place on earth, I know the city very well because it took and hour to get to school and an hour back on the school bus. I'm sure this will come in  handy someday when I am older and have to get around on the underground.

Mexico: I was always very sick from the pollution.  My brother was sick too.   This was very sad for my mom, because she remembered Mexico City as being a
 beautiful place in the 1960's.


Miriam:
Barbados was lovely and I considered it home and myself a Barbadian. Our house was close to the coast and we often went to the beach. It was hard to leave "home" but after two great years we were off to Bangladesh.

I never thought of Bangladesh as home, but I loved it there all the same. In the summer, we visited India and Nepal. I liked these places but some of the thing they ate were sick. I went to the Taj Mahal in India and rode elephants and trekked in Nepal. It was exciting thinking about the fact that I lived where tigers still roamed free in the Sunderbahns.

I like Armenia but it seems like anything is legal. Armenia's been having a hard time since the Soviet Union broke up. the schools was very small but growing rapidly. When I first got there, there were only 26 kids in the whole school. When I left, there were 35 students. Next year they're expecting 10 Indian students because an Indian Embassy is opening.


Rachel:
I was born in Guatemala. I have a Guatemalan birth certificate!

I don't remember anything about Zambia because I was only 2 when we left.

My first memory is coming to El Salvador. The main place to go for kids was the Embassy pool. I had a very nice housekeeper named Maria Elba. I remember the earthquakes!

Now I am in the Czech Republic. I like to see the historic castles. The school is super! We got a lot of winter and I am tired of it by now (April).


Peter:
Egypt. I don't remember much about Egypt except that I went inside a pyramid and I was really scared.

Pakistan. I loved our maid in Pakistan because she took me to get spicy Pakistani food.

The Philippines. I didn't like the school in the Philippines and my whole family hated the traffic. That's why we only stayed there for 1 and a half years.

Russia. Russia was my favorite country out of the four. I lived there for more than 4 years.

 

 
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