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Sophia, Jillian, and the pink team

Hồng, hồng, hồng… hổ báo!

 Published by Sophia Solé, Stanford Women's Sailing and Jillian Wolgemuth, Duke Field Hockey
During one of our 40-minute life skills lessons, we attempted to teach the kids the importance of resilience and bouncing…
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Lessons Learned from Teaching English

 Published by Anna Lee, Stanford Women's Fencing and Alyssa Marsh, Duke Women's Swimming
“Where are you from?” “I am from Vietnam!” It would be an understatement to say that we have asked this…
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Bigger and Stronger

 Published by Roman Romero, Duke Wrestling
After my first week of working with the kids my perspective has been exponentially broadened. I would not even consider…
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The Part that is Nomzamo

 Published by Max Evans, Stanford Men's Rowing
Nomzamo is a township 45 minutes outside of Cape Town, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Nomzamo originally…
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ACEathletes with students in Vietnam

Week 1 Recap

 Published by Sophia Solé, Stanford Women's Sailing
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be…
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Impact (va chạm)

 Published by Mitch Finesilver, Duke Wrestling
The word impact has two definitions. To come into forcible contact with another object. To have a strong effect on…
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Coach with arm around students

Coming to Life

 Published by Eoin Gronningsater, Duke Men's Fencing
On Sunday afternoon we hopped on the bus and embarked on our first of many 7-minute drives to the school where…
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