“How can there be peace without people understanding each other, and how can this be if they don't know each other?” - Lester Bowles Pearson, Nobel Prize 1957.
In August 1985 I was sixteen going on seventeen. It was the end of summer vacations when I received one of the most important gifts in my life: After a hard selection process, in which more than 300 students between 16 and 19 years from all over the country had taken part, I had been awarded a full scholarship to attend Lester B. Pearson College, where I was to spend the next two years studying under the International Baccalaureate Program and ... Read more
