The morning sessions of class focused on fellowship opportunities and other service opportunities. Their three groups speaking and the students were broken into different groups and simply rotated session. The groups were Teach for America, a great program that allows recent graduates of college to go and teach in areas that normally have trouble recruiting quality teachers. The recruit who are typically non education majors go to either extremely rural or inner city schools. The program is very competitive and about half decide to stay in education and the others go to med school, law school, or grad school. One of my close friends from college did this and is now the principle of a KIPP Academy in Houston, TX. The next group was the Peace Corp. This was a group started back in the sixties based on a speech that JFK gave to the University of Michigan turning a visit. Great programs and a great way to learn a language. I’ve had a couple of friends do this and it has turned out great for each of them. The last group was Truman Scholars. I did not attend this session bit the students seemed excited about the things that this fellowship had to offer. After these sessions the students attended classes on publics speaking and systems theory.

For the evening we all had a special treat. This night we were the guests of the Indian Embassy for dinner. The dinner and reception invited all of the speakers and guest s of the program to come together for conversation and a wonderful meal. It was fun to watch the students mingle and make conversations with the consular staff of the Embassy and all of the speakers they had heard. Many of the speakers could not attend, but many did. The toast that two of the students did was spot on and the students proved again why they were in a program like this. They did their families, schools, and this program well by their actions. They all seemed to have fun also. We had to nearly drag them out because the bus had to back at a certain time. It was a great evening for everyone involved.