30 Jan New Years 2017 Blog Challenge Round Up #4: HOPE
Welcome to the Week Four Blog Challenge recap!
This is officially our final prompt of the 2017 New Years challenge, however, there is a bonus prompt in the pipeline for those who want to continue their blogging challenge beyond January.
The Prompt: Hope & Change
For many of us, our worlds are going through some major changes and sometimes it’s easy to lose hope. So we’re focusing our blogging efforts on Hope and Change. Where do we draw hope from? And how do we create positive change?
Highlights
This week’s responses were especially encouraging to me. It was clear that many bloggers have been “feeling the weight of the world” and yet, they’re able to find hope, find ways to move forward, and encourage others. It’s not an easy thing to published a balance of positives and negatives, or to keep yourself in check when emotions are running high. Here are just a few examples of great posts from the past week with a cool spin on the theme:
- This post focuses on one aspect of her life that gives her hope and gives 5 reasons why with clear, concise, bolded arguments for each. (Beth, Moldova)
- Here’s a cool way to draw attention to the progress in your host country, with highlights listed by year – and bonus points for citing sources! (Tina, Namibia)
- A great way to keep a realistic balance in your post is pairing the challenges your host country faces alongside the hope and progress you see with each challenge (Cambodia, Karen)
- Sometimes poetry says it better than prose (Chris, Tanzania)
- This is a touching letter to the girl who gives this blogger hope (Olivia, Madagascar)
You’re encouraged to browse the Round Up links listed below for more blog inspiration and interesting cross-cultural topics. You can also find more posts highlighted on our Blog Challenge pinterest board.
Posts:
- Change has Come in Ghana Posted by Christine
While much of the world spent 2016 focused on the voting of two countries (the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the elections in the United States), Ghana also held elections for parliament and… - Week 1 in the Classroom: AKA a Week of Hope Posted by Liz Schutz
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope. I’ve had pretty limited Internet access this past week, but from what I’ve… - 5 things that make me hopeful for my community Posted by Kevin
Obligatory Preferatory ParagraphI think in paragraphs. I sometimes speak in them – much to the annoyance of Cat – and I write in them as well. To embrace this Blog Challenge as an actual… - Hope is a Thing With Feathers Posted by peace2moldova
This week, the blog challenge asked us to talk about where we find hope and where we see positive change happening. Like any other volunteer can tell you, not everyday of service is great. If it… - Dear Someone New Posted by Gabby
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope. Dear Someone New, Welcome to La Pintada, Panama! By now you’re through… - 5 Ways My Students Give Me Hope Posted by Beth Ogden
Living in a foreign country at the local level, especially in a country such as Moldova, it is sometimes easy to get caught up in all the problems and lose hope. But then I look around me, and… - Why Namibia’s Future Looks Bright Posted by littlebackpackbigworld
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope. Namibia is only a year older than I am, yet the country has accomplished unbelievable progress… - Holding on to Hope Posted by kbort
I often tell people, “Life in Cambodia is a lot like life anywhere. There are good days and there are bad days.” The extremes do tend to be higher and lower. The good is a grand new… - Two Worlds: Discovery, Confusion, Recovery Posted by chrisbiles03
This is a new poem to express the pull and push felt for my two very different homes – my two worlds. It expresses how and why we go on in spite of exhaustion, shock, or injustice. When you… - ‘Dear Sylvie,’ A Letter to the Girl Who Gives Me Hope Posted by Olivia Prentzel
Dear Sylvie, Eight thousand miles away from home, I stumbled upon a five-year old girl, hiding behind a tree, peering into my house. As months passed, the entire village began to call her my… - 5 things I do to keep the faith Posted by shouyuanart
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope. “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward… - When there is hope, there will be change! Posted by seaofcarnage
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope. Hope, it was what Obama ran on and inspired so many. What exactly is it though?… - Hope for the hopeless Posted by this brianna hope
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope. I have been feeling pretty hopeless and helpless lately (like so many of you). Fortunately, I… - Three Simple Words Posted by Kirk
This post is part of Blogging Abroad’s 2017 New Years Blog Challenge, week four: Change and Hope.In three simple words: change is hard. There are a million ways to say that, to describe it, to… - Bending Toward Justice Posted by Susan
We plant the seeds that one day will grow.We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.We lay foundations that will need further development.We provide yeast that produces… - A drop creates a ripple of change Posted by ohwhatadaringadventure
A few orders of business to start this blog post off… I know that this past week has been difficult for a lot of us. And this post is about hope. But I also think that we need a bit of a…
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