{"id":5805,"date":"2014-11-21T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalroutes.org\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2014-11-21T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:04:23","slug":"meet-arielle-c-tanzania-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalroutes.org\/staging\/8011\/2014\/11\/21\/meet-arielle-c-tanzania-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Arielle C., Tanzania &#8217;14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalroutes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/A.Chaifetz-photo-right1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5795\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.globalroutes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/A.Chaifetz-photo-right1.jpg?resize=616%2C616\" alt=\"A.Chaifetz photo (right)\" width=\"616\" height=\"616\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My name is Arielle Chaifetz. I\u2019m 17 years old and from Manhattan, New York. I am currently at the Beacon High school in Midtown. Being a senior, I am allowed to sign up for classes that interest me the most. Therefore, I signed up for Environmental Politics as a history class and African American Literature as an English class. My interests in these two subjects were enhanced greatly after my Global Routes trip to Tanzania. I gained a new perspective on the world around me and how vastly different people can live from what we are so used to. One of the major aspects of traveling that I learned from my past\u00a0summer in Tanzania was that these differences between American and African culture, or 1<sup>st<\/sup> world and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> world culture, are NOT a bad thing. For example, while the customs and way of life carried out by my home-stay family in Tanzania were unusual and sometimes outdated for me, for them, their way of life does not necessitate any change at all. This ideology led me down a different path where environmental issues are not as grey, rather creating a more right and wrong situation, where change is necessary. In addition, having experienced both African and American culture, I thought taking a class that studied African-American literature and its authors would be extremely interesting. Furthermore, my Global Routes trip has really carried on to every aspect of my life and I would love to go on another one soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My name is Arielle Chaifetz. I\u2019m 17 years old and from Manhattan, New York. I am currently at the Beacon High school in Midtown. Being a senior, I am allowed to sign up for classes that interest me the most. 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