Augusta Prep graduate Jennifer Hicks is taking a year off between high school and college to do mission work in Cambodia and Tanzania. She leaves for Cambodia in September. (Photo: Chris Thelen/Staff)Tuesday, June 02, 2009
By Sarah Day Owen| Staff Writer
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia, USA)
While her friends are sitting in college classrooms this fall, Jennifer Hicks will be in a classroom in Cambodia, working with orphans as a volunteer with a relief agency.
Jennifer is taking a gap year between graduating from Augusta Preparatory Day School and attending college at the University of Georgia.
She's volunteering through United Planet, an international nonprofit. She also will serve in Tanzania.
She'll leave for Cambodia on Sept. 7.
"I've never been exposed to Asian culture," she said.
On Dec. 7, she'll return home, much like a winter break she would get from school, then leave Jan. 15 for volunteer work in Tanzania.
She'll return to the United States on June 1 so she can start her freshman year of college.
She is considering course-work in a medical field.
She'd also like to join the Peace Corps "and have something more than just enthusiasm to offer them," she said.
"I feel like I've seen the same thing every day for 18 years," Jennifer said. "I'm looking for culture shock."
Jennifer loves helping others. She recently returned from Mobile, Ala., where she helped build a house with Habitat for Humanity.
"I just want to be a part of a big movement to help others," she said.
A gap year makes sense to Jennifer. She's in no rush to get to college right after high school, and she thinks the time helping others will be well spent. Plus, this is a time in her life when she has few responsibilities.
"I feel like this is a good time to go," Jennifer said.
Jennifer, who attends the Unitarian Universalist Church on Walton Way Extension in Augusta, says the experience will also help her learn more about herself.
"I'm also going over there to widen my religious views," she said. "I'm looking to teach while learning."
Reach Sarah Day Owen at (706) 823-3223 or sarah.owen@augustachronicle.com
Jennifer is taking a gap year between graduating from Augusta Preparatory Day School and attending college at the University of Georgia.
She's volunteering through United Planet, an international nonprofit. She also will serve in Tanzania.
She'll leave for Cambodia on Sept. 7.
"I've never been exposed to Asian culture," she said.
On Dec. 7, she'll return home, much like a winter break she would get from school, then leave Jan. 15 for volunteer work in Tanzania.
She'll return to the United States on June 1 so she can start her freshman year of college.
She is considering course-work in a medical field.
She'd also like to join the Peace Corps "and have something more than just enthusiasm to offer them," she said.
"I feel like I've seen the same thing every day for 18 years," Jennifer said. "I'm looking for culture shock."
Jennifer loves helping others. She recently returned from Mobile, Ala., where she helped build a house with Habitat for Humanity.
"I just want to be a part of a big movement to help others," she said.
A gap year makes sense to Jennifer. She's in no rush to get to college right after high school, and she thinks the time helping others will be well spent. Plus, this is a time in her life when she has few responsibilities.
"I feel like this is a good time to go," Jennifer said.
Jennifer, who attends the Unitarian Universalist Church on Walton Way Extension in Augusta, says the experience will also help her learn more about herself.
"I'm also going over there to widen my religious views," she said. "I'm looking to teach while learning."
Reach Sarah Day Owen at (706) 823-3223 or sarah.owen@augustachronicle.com
9 comments:
To be sure that religious conversion does not take place in the Kingdom of Cambodia in exchange of your kindness and altruism.
PPU
Only hope you will sleep better, when you think other believes and regions (in this case our Buddhist religion) are the same truth as Jesus Christ or what ever the caucasians believed.
The way from some of you did until today are the same effects as the Khmer Rouge did to us.
You are not only killing our believes although our Khmer identity.
Khmer in Europe
Ah PPU , come here .. come suck my dick , i just finish fucking your wife ...
ppu i want to fuck your anal
son of the bitch
MAY LIGHTNING STRIKE THE VIETSPY AND THE FUCKING TRAITORS OF THE NATION!
Thanks for volunteering, Jennifer...your good deeds will bring a lot of smile to Cambodian children.
6:26 PM
"Cut" and "paste" must be your favorite. That's great!
Now, go and fuck yourself.
Pi Anh: PPU
7:52 PM
That is a thing of the past. This is a modern society; we don't need that shit, only Puok Ah Scum Rainsy needs this shit.
Pi Anh: PPU
6.26
You sound very upset, right? Well, don't be, and I'm not pinning any blame on you. In fact, it's part of being a human garbage (of course, from your species). Yes, I'm quite honor to deal with human garbage like yourself.
Pi Anh: PPU
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