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the tribuneThe turtles...This was not the only disappointment of theproject. The cleaning of the beaches did nottake place and there was no garbagecollection in the village. Only a trickle of themoney paid to Planet Urgence arrived at theactual project. The technicians were badlyequipped and underpaid and the hatcherywas in ruins. Most of the money was lost inthe hierarchy of the national park. Thetechnicians also lacked funds to adopt turtlesfrom the fishermen. The fishermen neededcompensation because the turtles destroyedtheir nets and the technicians feared theycould not continue their work much longer.Frustrated with the state of the project, wedecided to pay for and help repair thehatchery. By placing turtles in a hatchery,their eggs will be protected from predationby crabs and dogs, and from poaching byhumans. A hatchery will also allow thetechnician to assist the hatched turtles toreach the ocean. Part of the repair has beenfinanced with money raised by ISP students.Completing negotiations with the village chief!We broke down the old hatchery and Tonywent to the nearest town to collect thenecessary material to rebuild it. However therepair turned out to be more complicatedthan foreseen. A neighboring family claimedto own the land on which the hatchery stoodand a park game warden was upset becausewe had not respected the proper hierarchybefore we went into action. The local politicsdelayed the reconstruction for several daysbut after the village chief intervened the workcould continue, although the work was onlycompleted after we left.Fortunately, one of the other volunteers is avery qualified human resources manager andhe made a very thorough analysis of theorganizational structure of the project. Withhis help we were able to write a very criticalreport to Planet Urgence and Marie-CyrilleLavallé contacted the coordinator of theproject regularly after we came back. Thisincited her to visit the project and she hasensured us that the money volunteers pay toPlanet Urgence now goes directly to theproject. This has enabled the technicians tocontinue their work and to adopt turtles fromthe local fishermen. Although we could notcontribute as much as we wanted to theconservation of turtles, our visit has had apositive effect in the long run because of ourcritical feedback. The improvements to theproject have made our visit to Cameroonextremely valuable. The money PlanetUrgence volunteers pay towards this projectnow actually goes directly to the turtleconservation effort.I would like to sincerely thank ISP for havingmade this unique experience possible.Students have raised money for theconservation of turtles. With this moneyseveral turtles have been adopted, moneyhas gone towards the hatchery and now,even the Ebodje School has been givenfootballs!Congratulations!ISP made a strong showing in the recent Red Wheelbarrow CreativeWriting Competition, with Brianna Botchwey (grade 11) and CharlotteMcGill (grade 7) both winning first place in their respective categories.Jamie Fraser (grade 9) came second in his category, while Georgia Orr(grade 2) and Natalie Salomon (grade 6) achieved Honorable Mentions intheirs. Congratulations to them all!Emma DornanSecondary School LibrarianWord PlayIn French and Spanish,Mylène Foucher's students learn oneidiomatic expression each week.How many of the following ones doyou know ?Il fait un froid de canard.Appuyer sur le champignon.Vouloir le beurre et l'argent du beurre.Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre.Avoir une faim de loup.Tomber dans les pommes.PAGE 6- T H E J O U R N A L O F T H E I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C H O O L O F P A R I S - w w w . i s p a r i s . e d u
VOLUME 13 - SUMMER 2008College and UniversityAcceptancesCongratulationsto the Class of2008!Canadian UniversitiesArt Institute of VancouverUniversity of British ColumbiaConcordia UniversityMcGill UniversityQueens UniversityRyerson UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of WaterlooYork UniversityUK UniversitiesBournmouth UniversityUniversity of BrightonBrunel UniversityCity UniversityThe University of DurhamUniversity of East AngliaThe University of EdinburghThe University of EssexUniversity of Exeter, Peninsula MedicalSchoolGoldsmiths College(University of London)Imperial College London(University of London)Keele UniversityKing's College London(University of London)Kingston UniversityLeeds Metropolitan UniversityLondon Metropolitan UniversityLondon School of Economics andPolitical Science (University of London)The University of ManchesterNewcastle CollegeThe University of NottinghamQueen Margaret University College,EdinburghQueen Mary, University of LondonRegents Business School LondonRichmond, The American InternationalUniversity in LondonSchool of Oriental and African Studies(University of London)University of the Arts, London -Foundation YearUniversity of BathUniversity of SouthamptonThames Valley UniversityUniversity College London(University of London)Roehampton UniversityUniversity of SurreyUniversity of Wales Institute, CardiffThe University of WarwickOther EuropeanUniversitiesAmerican University of ParisEcole Hotelière de LausanneU.S. Colleges andUniversitiesAmerican UniversityBennington CollegeBowdoin CollegeBryn Mawr CollegeChapman UniversityColumbia CollegeElon UniversityEmory UniversityEndicott CollegeGeorge Washington UniversityGrinnell CollegeHampshire CollegeJohn Hopkins UniversityKenyon CollegeLoyola University, ChicagoLoyola Marymount, Los AngelesLynn UniversityMacalester CollegeManhattanville CollegeMount St Mary's UniversityNortheastern UniversityOhio UniversityOberlin CollegeParsons School of Design, New YorkParson School of Design, Paris(Foundation Year)Pennsylvania State UniversityReed CollegeSuffolk UniversityUniversity of Colorado at BoulderUniversity of RedlandsUniversity of San DiegoUniversity of San FranciscoVassar CollegeWake Forest UniversityWheaton CollegeNote: Korean and Japanese academicyears begin in March/April. Acceptanceswill be published in the next edition.PAGE 7
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