The Middle Ground Journal

Tanzania – Service Learning – by Paul Schulzetenberg. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports

Editor’s Note: Many thanks to photographer Adam Bridge for the permission to use his photos for photos # 1 and 4.

That might be kilograms?

[Photo #1 caption: Me with Emanueli, the head baker. He was telling me how much flour I needed to weigh out.]

During the “service learning” part of the trip, several other students, a professor, the photographer, and I were sent to the Chipole monastary. We remained in Chipole for two weeks participating in service learning as well as getting to know the people we came into contact with. For this report, I would like to discuss the concept a service learning a bit and some thoughts about my own experience with service learning and my current perspective.

I was thinking about this a lot…