Limpopo Reflection

Limpopo Reflection

On our recent meeting, the American International School of Johannesburg students made a decision to perform a final edit on the Limpopo students born-free stories no later then March 25. During the AISJ meeting we discussed the things that we would need to edit such as tightening the focus and rechecking all grammar and spelling. The preliminary projections on this project are to forward the final edits to a teacher who specializes in English as a second language, where he will do the final master editing. In the mean time we will be searching for publishers to accept our stories and publish them around January 2015. 

During this meeting on our minute notes, we the AISJ students discussed the importance of assisting the Limpopo students by walking them down the footpath to apply for college. In future meetings we will have many discussions in reference to making this possible. At this point all we have is the framework.

By publishing and promoting our book on the Limpopo students born-free stories we are hoping it will create international awareness on global importance. By encouraging and guiding the Limpopo students through the college process we feel we would have a higher success rate of young educated born-free students. Thus, allowing them to be a productive member of society participating in issues of global importance.

My personal learning moment during our AISJ meeting is that a lot of people are involved in helping make this project work. One person can start a chain, but it takes a group to sustain it. I am glad to be part of this team as the communications officer. I am motivated and excited to be working with students my own age to help them achieve great things. This particular project is on a grand scale, involving many people. I can’t relate any other experience to this one. Changes that are desired is that the AISJ students are given more one on one time to work with the students on improving their writing. No conflicts arose so far. We hope we don’t have any problems or issues finding a publisher.

The AISJ student’s future goals on this action plan are to meet the Limpopo students September/October 2014 to tie everything together. I see this project as bridge to connect these students into careers such as doctors, lawyers, and teachers. The possibilities are endless.