Cami will be arriving in Boston August 21, 2016!
Her student visa was approved today in the capital city of Santiago, Chile.
All 4 Pinneys and Max are looking forward to welcoming her.
We are super excited!
Cami will be arriving in Boston August 21, 2016! Her student visa was approved today in the capital city of Santiago, Chile. All 4 Pinneys and Max are looking forward to welcoming her.
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"Dear Christine & Thomas Pinney,
ESSEX greatly appreciates your interest in serving as a host family for our organization. We are pleased to tell you that processing of your application has been completed and that your family is now APPROVED. " We are excited to announce that as part of the Bedford Rotary Exchange program, we will be hosting a young lady from Chile - starting in the fall! She will be a student at Bedford High School. Bedford Rotary packaged 48,000 meals for school children in Haiti who have very little to eat. They eat mud pies to fill their bellies.
This is part of our celebration of Pay it Forward. Visit stophungernow.com to see videos about our initiative.(e partner with stophungernow to get the food where it needs to go) All BHS Seniors had the option to participate in the BHS fashion show, however only some filled out the profile, went for the fitting and attended the rehearsal, and had the hutspa to strut their stuff on stage.
Check out Jackie Pinney @about 4:25 and Evelina @56:30 Gorgeous! sparkling! a joy to watch! They were naturals! 'Ogooglebar' ... and 14 Other Swedish has proven particularly adept at inventing new words for new tech.
We were very excited to attend this special event. It was planned on the 25th anniversary of the acceptance of women in Rotary! Befoire that women were not allowed in Rotary. There were several speakers: Author Razia Jan Razia’s Ray of Hope is a nonprofit organization that empowers Afghan girls and young women through community-based education in the district of Deh’Subz.Our organization and our school were founded in the belief that education is key to positive, peaceful change for current and future generations — and that we must provide girls and young women the education and resources necessary to work toward brighter futures, in their own villages and beyond. "Our flagship project is the Zabuli Education Center, an all-girl K-12 school that provides free, exemplary education to more than 430 students. The founder of our school and foundation is Afghan nativeRazia Jan, a CNN Top 10 Hero and tireless humanitarian. Our immediate goal is to add 50 students per year to our current program until the Zabuli Education Center reaches its full capacity of 650 students. The Razia's Ray of Hope Foundation will fully support the school in perpetuity by eventually setting up a sustainability endowment. The philosophy of education and school-building employed by Razia’s Ray of Hope Foundation and the Zabuli Education Center has proved remarkably effective. It is our intent to use our school as a model to expand into neighboring villages. There is a desperate need for quality, free education in Afghanistan, a need that the public school system is decades away from fulfilling. We will continue to meet this need on an ever-increasing scale." FInd out more about how you can help! https://raziasrayofhope.org/ Razia dreams of getting an education, but in her small village in Afghanistan, girls haven't been allowed to attend school for many years. When a new girls' school opens in the village, a determined Razia must convince her father and oldest brother that educating her would be best for her, their family and their community. Razia's Ray of Hope is the latest inspiring story from the CitizenKid collection. It is based on the true stories of the students of the Zabuli Education Center for Girls just outside of Kabul, founded by a generous and resourceful woman named Razia Jan, a CNN hero, who also appears in the story. It started out with the perfect picnic on top of the world! With a stellar view of the city of Boston, a commanding view of the Charles River and Cambridge, we shared sushi with crab and shrimp and yummy spicy sauces, sweet sparkling lemonade. Complete with a red and white checkered table cloth and a hearty wicker picnic basket, we feasted on gourmet goodies. We strutted our stuff on our way over to the Boston Garden to watch our Boston Celtics play basketball. We had a blast, thanks to Bedford Rotarian Cliff Rober, from the starting horn to the closing buzzer.We even ran into a couple Bedfordites! We were super excited to see the Girl Scouts of Eastern Mass's 500 cookie club high-fiving the very tall players on the court. Way to represent ladies! (and gents :) A real game changer was when our very own Jackie O discovered that #8 on the Boston Celtics, was Jonas Jerebko, of Sweden! (and why didn't we bring the Swedish flag with us to the game?? we need to bring that thing everywhere with us!!) Afterwards, we, OK I, would chant "put the Swede in, put the Swede in" get it? put the Swede-in? A couple girls I know looked online to find a Celtics Jersey with #8, Jerebko on it. As of press time, they have not bee successful. Afterwards, I decided to talk the girls on a mystery ride(have I told you what all mystery rides end in?) Our secret destination? Toscanini's Ice Cream in Cambridge, Mass. One bite of Mint Choc chip, orancge creamsicle and mago madness, convinced us why they've been the #1 ice cream in Boston for a bazillion years! On the way back to Bedford, we couldn't help but notice how alive Cambridge was at 9:30 at night. There were skate boarders, bicyclists, lots of pedestrians out and about. Of course, there were quite a few restaurants and shops open. This was a stark contrast to the Great Road business district in Bedford. The town was already asleep, time to get my girls to bed. |
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