Archive for the ‘English’ Category
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
I’m Rebecca Bachman. I’m originally from Upstate New York and go to university in Santa Barbara California. I’m technically an exchange student here in Rio – I spend most of the time during the week studying International Relations and Journalism at PUC – but I do most of my learning ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
My name is Gary although I’ve been given several aliases since I left home in July of 2009. I graduated from the University of Washington (’09) with a degree in Communications and Political Science, and soon after moved to Mexico where I taught English for a little less than a ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
My name is Ali Medina and I’m from Boulder, Colorado. I recently graduated from the University of Colorado after studying International Affairs and Spanish Literature. I stumbled across the i2i community a year ago on a visit to Rocinha and fell in love right away. I’ve only been here for ...
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
My name is Amy Maria Silva. I`m 22 years old and from the San Francisco Bay Area in California. I study sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Currently, I am studying abroad at the Pontifícia Universidade Cátolica and teaching English at Instituto Dois Irmãos. I LOVE my students. ...
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
I’m Laura from Hamburg, Germany.
I teach English to Adults, and its astonishing how keen they all are to learn English. You really feel useful during the hours spent and its good to see the result of your work.
I am working as volunteer here in the 2bros Institute mainly because I ...
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Oi, I’m Mara and vivo a Milano,in Italy. I work in a office and when I have free time I work as volunteer (with children, in arts activities and for environment) in my country and when I can, in foreign countries. I like meeting people, different from me, sharing minds ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Art Class: Masks
In our mask making class, the children learned about how masks are utilized in other cultures. The students were encouraged to use their imaginations to create mythic animals or monsters decorated with vivid designs and colors. Using mask making technique learned in the class, the children constructed ...
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
i2i is excited to annonce we are working on a Newsletter to update everyone on what has been going on here in Rocinha. It will be sent out soon, but we wanted to post a short update on what has been going on this winter. Last semester ended well and ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
On August 1st, 2Bros/i2i volunteer Drew Detweiler's video about Rocinha was posted prominently on CNN's Latin America page. The video features footage of our work here in Rocinha. Many thanks to Drew for his excellent work. The video can be viewed here: Please share this link with friends and family ...
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
We have a new donation website. Volunteers in Rocinha have been working on
creating a fundraising website page through firstgiving.com . First Giving
is a U.S. based fundraising website. On this site, NGO's like 2brothers/i2i
can post fundraising pages, major companies can create accounts to search
for NGO's to donate ...
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