Alexia Godron, a freshman at the Washington International School, recently interviewed Alejandro Ernst, a senior at the same school, and humanities teacher Christian Delair. 

Alexei provided this description: 

He dedicated his tenth grade project to fundraising for an orphanage in Mali. He collected thirteen duffel bags of clothes and toys for children. And he impacted their lives, although he had never met them before.
Alejandro Ernst is a senior at Washington International School. At the end of his freshman year, he had signed up for a community service trip to Mali organized by his french teacher, Mr. Delair, to volunteer at an orphanage in Bamako. 
This community service trip had been created years ago by Christian Delair, who had stumbled upon the orphanage ASE Niaber with a friend of his who was looking for a child to adopt. He had promptly brought his idea back to WIS and fused it with the community service hours High School kids at WIS needed to amass.
Preparing for his tenth grade project, Alejandro realised he really wanted to do something “out of the ordinary” and decided to combine this trip with his project. Throughout the year, he fundraised by selling empanadas and collected clothes, toys, and electronics for the children. He was able to give them to the kids in person the following summer. Pursuing his interest for this orphanage, he created a club at WIS devoted to raising money and awareness and supporting ASE Niaber.

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Sophomore Thomas Cerisola of the Washington International School interviews colleagues Charlie Pannell and Ethan Diner on their interest in kickboxing.

Cerisola provided this description of the podcast:


Summary: Ethan Diner and Charlie Pannell, explain how they started. and their motivations to keep pursuing this sport. They get into detail, by describing the uniforms they use, typical training day routines, favorite fighter and teacher, food diet, how intense this sport is compared to others, etc. The first day that Charlie and Ethan trained, both athletes puked. However, as they were able to accustom their bodies to the paces of the drills, it became a lot easier.   

Another very important topic that was brought up was, how would sex and age affect training. Both responded fairly similar, saying that they just had to deal with it if they were at a disadvantage. They explained that kickboxing is mostly mental, and performing effective moves at a specific time was crucial to the outcome.

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Washington International School sophomore Sophie Moore recently interviewed recently interviewed classmates Naina and Divya Woden, twins, on participating in a triathlon.

Moore provided this description:

Divya and Naina Woden spent their summer training for the event; running, swimming and biking as well as preparing mentally to take on the challenge of a triathlon. When it finally came time to do the triathlon on the day before school, they were prepared. They had some surprises, they learned a few lessons and when it was all over, they collapsed and fell asleep.

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Anthony Mavrogiannis recently interviewed new student Julian Klingen on what's like to be a new student. He provided the following synopsis of the interview:

On August 26th, 2013, Julian Klingen’s four year experience at WIS began. He had the opportunity to become familiar with the soccer field during preseason, but was not so used to the classrooms. 

Two weeks into the school-year, Julian was able to reflect on how his transition at WIS had been going. Despite leaving all of his friends at the British School, Julian felt as though he was succeeding socially at WIS. In addition to making friends, Julian believed that he was doing well in his classes. With a welcoming community that made his first two weeks at WIS easy, Julian thinks the future will be even brighter. 

To gain a different perspective on how Julian was doing with his change, I interviewed Andrew, another ninth grader at WIS who is not new but had known Julian before he came to WIS because of soccer. But there was no difference in what the two teammates had to say, as Andrew explained that Julian was fitting in perfectly at his new school.

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