Jul 11th, 2011
Today, Saul Flores (2011) started an e-mail chain on our Caldwell listserv. It’s been such an excellent thread and is a cool way to hear what some of us are up to this summer. From where I stand I can see the laugh lines of the Himalayas. When my eyes close I can hear the [...]
Jun 21st, 2011
The adventure to the Bayerische Alpen began with an evening in München like no other. I caught a train headed east with a couple I had never met before in order to stay overnight in München before heading to Berchtesgaden on Saturday morning. Rather than taking the U-Bahn (subway) from the main train station to [...]
May 22nd, 2011
May 22, 2011 Sunday morning Cup of tea and the Times of India. Half a world away from my usual coffee and Raleigh News and Observer. It is my third morning in Delhi, and there is now some familiarity to this place. Twelve of us are finally all here, our arrivals spread over several days [...]
Apr 15th, 2011
This is a part of a series. By Ariel Fugate, Class of 2012 Post 3 of 3: As part of my self-design degree, I have learned to think as a sociologist. Sociologists often break down successful progression and vitality of a community into an abundance of several forms of capital, one of the most foundational [...]
Apr 13th, 2011
This is a part of a series. By Ariel Fugate, Class of 2012 Post 2 of 3 Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time in a rural area can observe tension between the local population and immigrants, a foreign, usually Spanish-speaking population – the “speak English” bumper stickers and symbolic laws mandating public [...]
Apr 10th, 2011
A Call to Action for Rural Community Planners and Rural Citizens By Ariel Fugate, Class of 2012 This is a part of a series. Post 1 of 3. One month ago I was fortunate to go with a group of Caldwell Fellows to Mexico. Where “Caldwell trips” differ from any other trip is the chance [...]
Apr 9th, 2011
by Alex Martin, class of 2011 On Thursday night, I went to a benefit dinner for a campus organization that many Caldwell Fellows founded called Bricks Breaking Boundaries. It is a response to the call for action in this year’s common reading initiative, “Half the Sky.” In the book, the authors reveal that human sex [...]
Mar 26th, 2011
By: Mark Menesses For five weeks last summer, a group of twenty-four Caldwell Fellows traveled across the vast country of China and immersed in the Chinese culture through interaction and service with its people. Finding ourselves in a cultural context far separated from that of Raleigh, we were able to uniquely reflect and grow in [...]
Mar 24th, 2011
By Brian Schuster, Class of 2013 Our project to build a solar drying house and fermentation boxes for the Toledo Cacao Growers’ Association (TCGA), an organization that sells cacao for chocolate production, has given me a new way of looking at my own endeavors in the States.
Mar 24th, 2011
By Kejuan Weaver, Class of 2013 It was hot everyday. I went to bed in sweat. Showers only helped to get the accumulated sand, dirt and dried concrete off of my skin. Yet, this was part of my spring break experience. Although this is easily the most focused memory I have, what I did while [...]
Mar 24th, 2011
By Jessica Neville, Class of 2013 A little over a week ago, I was sitting outside on a warm night with a cool breeze much like I’m feeling in North Carolina as I write this blog post. That’s about where the similarities end, however; I was far away from NC, out of North America actually, [...]
Mar 23rd, 2011
By: Summer Higdon, Class of 2014 Hey, I’m Summer Higdon, class of 2014 Caldwell Fellow. I started taking German in high school and took a total of four semesters over three years, all with the same teacher. The summer after I graduated, I got the chance to travel to four German speaking countries plus the [...]
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