Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
(This is part 1 in a three-blog series on travel readiness. Part two will focus on the importance of travel vaccination and part three on first aid kits and the management of medicaton, including chronic medication.)
Traveling is slowly opening up and we...
The Education Team is pleased to announce The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré as the sixth annual Summer Global Book Read, as part of the Global Issues Book Discussion Series. From the book jacket (Penguin Random House):
The remarkable, inspiring story of a teenage girl [Adunni] growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education...
Our immune system is a complex network of tissues, cells and organs working to prevent and limit illness and infections. The two main parts of the immune system work together – the innate immune system, with which you are born, and the adaptive immune system, which you develop.
The innate immune system is the body’s first...
How much do you trade to defeat loneliness? – p. 163
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was a book that inspired passionate conversation when the Education Team decided to take an hour one Sunday to meet and discuss this interesting selection. Centered on the main character Kya, a virtual orphan who raised herself in the...
Bahrain, my home, became so small to me, I was almost suffocating there. I heard once that no one leaves their home until their home becomes the mouth of a shark. One only leaves...