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Cultural learning across the pond
Discovery Bay resident
and Liberty High student
Nate G. Lee recently returned
from a 21-day People to
People Student Ambassador
Program trip to England,
Wales and Ireland, where he
traveled with a delegation
of 40 students from Contra
Costa County.
Lee met a member of
Parliament, toured a Welsh
Coal Mine and the Waterford
Crystal Factory, and worked
on an Irish farm. He also got
to rappel down an ancient
Irish Castle wall and walk
among the ancient monoliths
of Stonehenge. Lee, who
plans to major in agriculture/
soil sciences at college, was
especially excited to learn
about Irish farming and
compare it to farming in the
United States.
“You haven’t seen green
till you’ve seen Ireland,”
wrote Lee in a letter to home.
“I feel like my eyes are broken
and can’t see any other color
but green!”
Lee, who will be a junior
at Liberty in the fall, was
completing the academic
credit requirements related
to the program’s culture
and heritage excursions.
The recent excursion was
led by Oakley Unifi ed
School District teacher Kim
Ambrosino and accompanied
by a local delegation manager,
who coordinated the cultural
and recreational activities.
Over the last fi ve months,
delegation members attended
several orientation meetings
with program leaders to learn
about their destination. Each
delegate was required to
research, write a report and
give an oral presentation on
a chosen topic pertaining to
the visit. Lee’s presentation
was on the history of Ireland.
He chose this topic because
his ancestors immigrated to
Photo courtesy of Dana Lee
Liberty High student Nate G. Lee visited Stonehenge and other sites in England,
Wales and Ireland as part of a student ambassador program.
North America from that
country in the 17th century.
The People to People
program, based in Spokane,
Wash., was founded in 1956
by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, who believed
that ordinary citizens of
different nations could
make a difference in ways
governments could not.