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Written by: Medina Ayasha Nordiawan, Image by Alexandra Kern  For UWCSEA East, Class of 2020 When goodbye comes early, what do you do?  What do you do when the world flips over and suddenly the person you spend 7 hours of your days with isn’t there anymore? What do you do when goodbyes catch you off…

Each for Equal, Within Reach?

Written by: Medina Ayasha Nordiawan, Image by Bea Vaquero On Friday, March 6 2020, the UWCSEA East community gathered together in Santai to celebrate International Women’s Day, a day of the year to celebrate women and yet another day to fight for women’s rights all around the world. Members of the community were getting the…

Unity in Diversity: Culturama Indonesia

Written by: Medina Ayasha Nordiawan Unity in diversity. This is used as Indonesia’s national motto, originally Bhinneka Tunggal Ika in old Javanese, symbolizing the diversity the nation holds, while also making sure the people celebrate these differences and are still one, however. This was the concept of the dance showed for Indonesia in this year’s…

It’s okay not to be okay…

Written by: Samiha Singh Last Thursday marked the World Mental Health Day and so I thought maybe I should write about this. Mental health. It’s a word we use quite often here at our school – in our classes, assemblies, lunch tables, and general conversations. And maybe some of you reading this are probably going…

A Childhood Christmas

**Holiday Special** Written by: Graham Silverthorne I grew up in a house in the country, two miles up the hill from a small market town. We had a big garden that my Father virtually lived in through long summer evenings. A creaking old cherry tree growing right outside my bedroom window made the whole world…

The First Seven Minutes of Culturama 2K18

Written by: Mira Maheshwari Being my first year at this school as a boarder, I was bombarded with reminders of this annual event since the beginning of my first day. “Are you going to audition for culturama this year?”, “Do you remember on what date we have the Japan auditions?”, “Have you bought your tickets yet?”…

Reconnecting with India Through Culturama

Written by: Samiha Singh Viewing the bright ochre hues of the Garba dance as well as the traditional, elegant colors of Rajasthan brought to life through the Ghoomar dance invoked feelings of extreme amazement for me. Although I have traveled to most parts of India and experienced these performances by the locals, seeing it live…