Hi guys! My name is Lily Feng, and I am from Farmington, CT, a small suburb near CT’s capital of Hartford. In high school, I developed a passion for issues surrounding immigration, global migration and the intersections of global issues that......Read More
Hi everyone ! I’m Sidney Tokwe from Masvingo, a province in Southern Zimbabwe. Having spent most of my life in the village, I have always felt an itch to explore beyond my confining village boarders to learn new fresh perspectives about......Read More
Hi all! My name is Caroline Bewley, and I grew up in Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois. As a kid, I spent a lot of time in Lake Michigan, which instilled in me a love of water and the importance of environmental conservation. I spend......Read More
Hi everyone! My name is Angelia, and I am from Shandong Province in China. I chose to join the civic semester because I’ve always been interested in social and environmental justice and wanted to do something in these areas. I also care about......Read More
Hello Everyone! As we hope you read in the Introduction to the Yak Board post, this is our community forum where all Dragons programs share thoughts and reflections from the field. During your program, you will be posting here on the Yak Board......Read More
Dear Civic Semester Students, Congratulations on joining an inspiring and diverse community of educators, students, and cultural ambassadors! We are excited to initiate our relationship with you to help you ease into the exceptional experience......Read More
Dear Fall 2021 Tufts Civic Semester Southwest students, Welcome to your program’s Yak Board! You can think of your program’s Yak Board as an online group journal and virtual bulletin board. Pre-program, you will use the Yak Board to introduce......Read More
Welcome to the Tufts Civic Semester Yak Board! The views and opinions expressed on this page are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view, opinion, policy, or position of Tufts University, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of......Read More
Today was a pretty good day. I have been sick and therefore have missed a couple of days at camp. I came back to a pretty good last day. Although I missed breakfast, I heard it was wonderful and filled with lots of goodies like donuts that were......Read More
To be honest, I wasn’t really sure about what I was getting into during the first couple of days of our trip and I was a little nervous about what we were going to experience. However, I started to feel at ease and more confident with going with......Read More
Yesterday we had a talent show and there were bunch of great performances including a stand up comedy performance by Jake Sullivan and Coleman Smith they made a skit off of a Dragons Instructor named Bradford and there was another performance by......Read More
A few photos of our student talent show, and life at Dragons Camp. ...Read More
Hey folks! We started off the day super early compared to the other days since we went on one of our biggest excursions yet. After a egg filled breakfast we all packed ourselves into a cramped van and made our way to our most fun destinations yet.......Read More
EXCURSION DAY! Today wasn’t only started with breakfast by rather with the blaring sun that for some reason decides to break the horizon at 4 a.m. but it’s dope because after a rude yet blissful awakening we ate breakfast. Breakfast was an egg,......Read More
