5 Things I Would Tell Someone If They Were to Travel to ACE in Peru
Published by Josh Finesilver, Duke Wrestling
1. Be ready to work as a team and do a lot of manual labor. When working in the community,…
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The Simple Things
Published by Peyton St. George, Duke Softball
Wrapping up my experiences from Vietnam into one final blog post has been more difficult than I could’ve ever imagined. …
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A Welcoming Community
Published by Mike Ungvarsky, Duke Men’s Cross Country and Track & Field
Before the plane took off for South Africa, the one aspect I was most nervous about was the reaction we…
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A Small Impact
Published by Jazz Moreno, Duke Softball
As soon as I applied for ACE in South Africa, the only expectation I had was that I was going…
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The Big, Grey Rectangle
Published by Max Evans, Stanford Men's Rowing
In our third week in Nomzamo, our group began doing construction at a daycare center in the local community. The…
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Perhaps a Little Difference Is Enough
Published by Kayla McCoy, Duke Women's Soccer
When I applied for ACE in South Africa, all I knew was that we would be working with women and…
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Sit Down, Be Humble
Published by Mitch Finesilver, Duke Men's Wrestling
My time in Vietnam was an experience-for-a-lifetime but not because of one of those cliché responses like “their culture is…
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How Rowing and Wrestling Uniquely Prepared Two Student-Athletes to be Volunteers
Published by Max Evans, Stanford Men's Rowing and Roman Romero, Duke Wrestling
Rowing and Wrestling are two very different sports. Wrestling is very individual. Wrestling is two strong, angry, muscular men on…
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10 Things I’ve Learned from You
Published by Amelia Smith, Stanford Beach Volleyball and Max Feldman, Duke Men's Soccer
Coming to South Africa to work with children, we all expected to learn from the people we worked with since…
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A Video Reflection from Gordon’s Bay, South Africa
Published by Taylor Lallas, Stanford Women's Tennis and Callie Humphrey, Duke Women's Lacrosse
Although we seem to live very similar lives as student-athletes at highly competitive universities both athletically and academically, we both…
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