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Caroline Aberhart arrived in Bermuda four years ago, with $11 in her pocket.
Somehow she’d lost her wallet on the long journey from her native New Zealand.
On the plus side, she had a job she relished.
The clinical pharmacist is promoting her career ...
DATE: Oct 29, 2015
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Parenting
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Chelsea Smith’s family moved five times when she was growing up.
She changed schools every time they moved. Each time there were new friends to make and new routines to learn.
“The experience was stressful,” said the 38-year-old. “Although I didn’t l...
DATE: Oct 29, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The reinsurance industry didn’t fit the bill for Hayley Evans.
Law and accounting were similarly unappealing careers.
She was a secondary student at Saltus Grammar School when everything fell into place.
“I was drawn to the sciences and really liked ...
DATE: Oct 22, 2015
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Parenting
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‘Slight Fright’ is just five minutes long but at the moment it is Al Seymour Jr’s cinematic masterpiece.
If you’ve watched ‘Goosebumps’ at the Liberty Theatre, you have most likely seen the 18-year-old’s big screen debut.
The short film shows immedia...
DATE: Oct 22, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
The first time Nasya Joell danced on stage he was nine.
He was so nervous he kept dropping his prop but the experience got him hooked on performing.
By the time his family left Bermuda for Huntsville, Alabama a year later, Nasya was dancing competiti...
DATE: Oct 01, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Carolyn Soares didn’t know how lucky she was until she went to South Africa.
She taught English to 10-year-olds without computers or sufficient textbooks in Mpumalanga, eastern South Africa.
Huge numbers of children were jammed into tiny classrooms i...
DATE: Sep 24, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Children are the same, the world over.
That’s what Nadia Khan learnt from a summer spent teaching in Thailand.
“I thought there would be more cultural differences,” said the 31-year-old teacher.
“With my own students at Somersfield Academy, they ofte...
DATE: Aug 27, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
Andreas Ratteray thought he was the smartest thing in the ocean, until he met some sharks.
The 20-year-old had a close call this summer, while touring the Pacific with the Sea Education Association.
“I am a pretty short dude and I was with two othe...
DATE: Aug 20, 2015
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CATEGORY:
Parenting
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AUTHOR:
Jessie Moniz Hardy
When Jayson Jackson tells people he’s getting a degree in turf grass science, he gets a lot of strange looks.
“It’s not a degree people hear [about] every day,” the 23-year-old winner of the Hibiscus Garden Club scholarship said.
“Even at university...
DATE: Aug 20, 2015
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Parenting
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Tiffany Paynter has a month to raise $25,000.It’s the final step in a huge effort by the 30-year-old to get her degree from Queen’s University.She dropped out of the Canadian institution after her family ran into financial difficulties in 2005. Schol...
DATE: Aug 13, 2015
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Parenting
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