Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to hear from you!
Calling all young people! What future do YOU want?
Join a global conversation about the Future We Want on Twitter using the hashtag #GCModelUN.
Ban Ki-moon will review your ideas and share selected posts with students attending the Global Classrooms Model UN event on 17 May in New York City.
You can also follow tweets from students representing 23 countries who will be attending the event using the same hashtag.
Stay tuned for more posts related to “Rio+20” — the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development which will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 2012.
Get involved! More ideas here…
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.~ Arnold Lobel
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A message from ModCloth!
“As writers, we’re celebrating National Poetry Month by crafting a poem or two, but we’re also excited to check out If the World Were My Classroom…, a new poetry anthology published by She’s the First, a nonprofit that raises money for girls’ education in developing countries.
She’s the First asked “If the world were my classroom, I’d teach a girl…”, and more than 8,000 first-time writers and seasoned professionals from around the world submitted their inspirational responses. The poems selected aim to “express the evolving wisdom, brave vulnerability, and bold ambition that we universally share with girls worldwide, despite the vastly different circumstances into which we are born.”
Pick up a copy at She’s the First or swing by our Twitter giveaway on Wednesday at 12 PT for a chance to win your own copy. Tweet a response to the prompt “If the world were my classroom, I’d teach a girl…” and the best verses will be compiled into a poem and three winners will be randomly selected to win an autographed copy of the anthology!
We hope you’re able to express yourself this month and maybe even help other women do the same!”
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"Once we’ve thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it’s only here that the new and the good begins."
— Leo Tolstoy, quoted in F. S. Michael’s excellent Monoculture: How One Story is Changing Everything. (via explore-blog)
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(Source: spectrum-of-emotion, via the-awkward-girl)
