So as you may already know on Tuesday-Wednesday the Chilean Miners were rescued. Tuesday night alot of us watched the first miner being rescued which was awesome. The next day, before we went to Ashoka to talk about our social venture projects, we went to the Chilean Embassy, just around the corner from us. Right in front stood a huge screen showing the live Chilean footage of what was happening. We all stood in front of it and watched. Right as Yonni Barrios was coming up( the one with the mistress) German tv reporters interviewed us about it! Me and a few others got interviewed about how we felt about this etc. etc. It was pretty funny. It was cool being able to contribute to the conversation about the Chilean Miners.
If you want to try to decipher German you could find the video somewhere here: http://www.wdr.de/
After that we went to Ashoka to talk about our social venture projects. Ashoka is the organization that gives each one of us grants of up too $1000 for our non-profit organizations that we're starting. They help people start up organizations and help social entrepreneurs. This week we were just introduced to the project designed so we can bring what we learn here back home to our communities, in whatever scope you consider community. This is one of our 3 capstone projects. I have a few ideas and I'm really excited about it! :)
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