..Rêve Sans Frayeur..
Friday, March 04, 2011

Long but interesting week. Just came back from the HRO concert where they played Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Piano Concerto No. 1 and Stravinsky's Firebird. Yesterday, I went to a film screening of Not My Life - a documentary by Academy award nominee Robert Bilheimer on human trafficking and modern day slavery. Following which, I went as part of Quincy House for the 163th Hasty Pudding Theatricals "Kashmir If You Can" at New College Theatre. The day before that, I went to a meet-and-greet and book signing event by Jodi Picoult hosted by the Harvard Bioethics Society. There I met Jesse whom I haven't seen in 3 whole years since she graduated. We met on our Habitat trip to Honduras in my freshman year. I'm now a senior and she's now a first year at Harvard Med. Ran an experiment in lab, so we'll find out how that turned out this weekend.
Classes this week were fun too! On Thursday, my social entrepreneurship class hosted Beatrice Biira. Beatrice grew up in Uganda and remembers how much she yearned to go to school when she was younger. One day, Heifer International gave her family a goat, which gave birth to twins and the milk it produced gave her the chance to go to school. From then on, she did really well, and won a scholarship to the United States. She graduated from Connecticut College last year and now works at Millennium Promise, the organization that runs the Millennium Villages. It was really inspiring to hear her story in person and it was so hard to believe that this mature, intelligent and confident woman standing in front of us was once a young impoverished girl in Africa. The girl who walked 12 miles each day to and from school just to get an education. In financial management, we studied the growth plans of the Tampa Museum and analyzed the financial health of the Francis Charter Schools. French this week was on Camus! So cool! Business chinese was on the environmental protection agency in China and the history of the Chinese stock market. Stat was well, just stat.
So many things to look forward to. Tomorrow Quincy House's organizing a trip to the Boston Museum of Science for their special "What Makes Us Different" exhibit exploring racial differences. Next week, I'm going to the catch the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Thursday play Beethoven's 5th courtesy of the Office of the Arts. And then it's off to Montréal and Niagara Falls to begin Spring Break. Then it's off to New York for the NY Half Marathon!
I love Harvard.
defining himself: Shawn
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