REFLECT
My Global
Learning experience at FIU, specifically when engaged in the Global Learning
Medallion Program (GLP): was refreshing, life changing and has sparked a global
lifetime learning challenge for myself. I will forever treasure and be grateful
for discovering the GLM Program. The program has cultivated my mind, spirit and
future. FIU aims to shape students into Global Citizens, and the Global
Learning Medallion Program has done just that and more.
In my Global Learning Experience at FIU, T took four Global Learning classes, participated in an International Internship, Tuesday Roundtables, Haitian Student Organization Summer Mentoring Program, a Haitian Lecture on Haiti’s History, Language and the Digital Library of the Caribbean, and a Peace Corps Meet & Greet. I made countless connections and have learnt of dozens of opportunities to raise my global awareness for myself, local and my global communities. Some of my favorite Tuesday Roundtables were: Normalizing US-Cuba Relations, Clicktivism and Women in the Workplace. The topics were relevant, thought provoking, and covered a variety of global challenges, policies and stereotypes to be reviewed by: now-and-upcoming leaders, ourselves. At the Peace Corps Meet & Greet, my first Peace Corps event, a few students from FIU-representing Global Learning and FIU’s Peace Corps Program; and Global Learning’s Assistant Director sat to soak in all the volunteering stories. We learned of how instrumental Peace Corps was in the lives of these successful heads, like Donna Shalala, UM President and Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radele. As students we learned far before you can be successful, you have to serve and listen first, and then continually, and then always. I networked with like-minded Peace Corp Volunteers who shared similar sediments about serving first before succeeding. Being a part of the Global Learning Medallion program, exposed to me to many resources, much knowledge and countless connections I would have not be able to source on my own in such a short period of time. The GL Program has cultivated me into a Global Citizen who seeks to explore local and global challenges knowing that they can be solved with innovation and dedication from self and community. The GL Program has taught me that many individuals and countries different in culture but overall we want the same thing; health, happiness and fulfilment. |