Celia Morton (RCN '17-'19)

[fusionbuildercontainer hundredpercent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusionbuilderrow][fusionbuildercolumn type="23" layout="11" backgroundposition="left top" backgroundcolor="" bordersize="" bordercolor="" borderstyle="solid" spacing="yes" backgroundimage="" backgroundrepeat="no-repeat" paddingtop="" paddingright="" paddingbottom="" paddingleft="" margintop="0px" marginbottom="0px" class="" id="" animationtype="" animationspeed="0.3" animationdirection="left" hideonmobile="no" centercontent="no" minheight="none" last="no" hovertype="none" link="" borderposition="all"][fusiontext columns="" columnminwidth="" columnspacing="" rulestyle="default" rulesize="" rulecolor="" hideonmobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" animationtype="" animationdirection="left" animationspeed="0.3" animationoffset=""]It’s been almost 9 months since I graduated from RCN, and I am now practicing what I learned. For the past 6 months I have been living in Pune, India doing my Global Citizen Year. I live with an Indian host family. I take Hindi classes and primarily work as a teacher’s assistant at a low-income English-medium public school, alongside Teach For India. This was the perfect next step after the little utopia of the Flekke bubble. Here I have had to rely on the skills which were introduced to me through roommates, cantina talks and events. I am directly experiencing the global environmental and social issues which we talked about and working with them. Not to mention living in a culture that is the opposite of what I am accustomed to. It’s not easy, but because of UWC I know that I have been able to communicate, collaborate and comprehend much better than if I had come to GCY from my Swedish high school. Thanks to this I know that I want to keep working in the social sector, especially with education![/fusiontext][/fusionbuildercolumn][fusionbuildercolumn type="13" layout="13" spacing="" centercontent="no" link="" target="self" minheight="" hideonmobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" backgroundcolor="" backgroundimage="" backgroundposition="left top" backgroundrepeat="no-repeat" hovertype="none" bordersize="0" bordercolor="" borderstyle="solid" borderposition="all" paddingtop="" paddingright="" paddingbottom="" paddingleft="" margintop="" marginbottom="" animationtype="" animationdirection="left" animationspeed="0.3" animationoffset="" last="no"][fusionwidgetarea name="avada-custom-sidebar-peopleofrcnarchive" titlesize="" titlecolor="" backgroundcolor="" paddingtop="" paddingright="" paddingbottom="" paddingleft="" hideonmobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" /][/fusionbuildercolumn][/fusionbuilderrow][/fusionbuildercontainer]