Global scholar is an organization where peers from different countries communicate to each other, so they can know more about their country. For example facts that you might not know or questions that you normally can’t find on the internet.
We got to know the culture of some countries like, Fort Lauderdale, Warsaw, Volgograd, Paris and Taipei. We talked with peers of these countries in the forum. And learned about common things like; typical food, sport, etc. Also, we talked about social problems.
The only country we could talk on video call was Taipei, we talked about 45 mins with them and asked them a lot of questions that we had about Taipei. They did the same with us.
This year of Global scholar we had 5 units in which we talked about different topics. The first unit was like an introduction to global scholars, unit 2 was about nourishing ourselves and our city, in which we talked about healthy food, what processed food could do to us. In unit 3 consisted in growing food in our cities in a sustainable way, unit 4 was about food chain, from where did our food come, what steps it goes through before reaching us. And in the last unit we had to make our own project, which could make our community better.
The project we did was to recollect food in our high school for an NGO of this area. The project did not go as we predicted, because nobody really collaborated, so for that reason we could not recollect enough food to give an NGO.
I think that what I learned from global scholar was that everyone is completely different from each other, because they have different habits, lifestyle, time, etc. Also, that we that all the countries around the world have to take a step to make the world a better place to live.
I really had fun doing all of the units and also that more countries should participate and make more video calls to each other.