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Teens Unplugged<br />
Teens Unplugged 2<br />
We survived our first year after High School! You can too!<br />
Last year, local parents and the <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Services</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong> developed and put on a targeted workshop<br />
for graduating seniors in the international<br />
community who were, for the first time, going<br />
to live away from home (perhaps abroad) or go into the<br />
world of work. This workshop was conceived to address<br />
the fact that many teens who attend college overseas or<br />
work, even if it is in their country of origin, while prepared<br />
academically, may be unprepared in terms of many aspects<br />
of living independently for the first time.<br />
This year, we are pleased to announce that this free,<br />
half-day workshop will be held at Taipei European School’s<br />
Primary Campus on Wen Lin Road in Shilin on Sunday<br />
April 18th, from 1-5 pm. Refreshments will be offered<br />
along with door prizes.<br />
The format, which was favorably received by the teen<br />
participants last year, is a series of informal topic group<br />
discussions. Returning are several of last year’s dynamic<br />
‘peer’ group leaders who are recent alumni from TAS, TES<br />
and other international schools. These leaders are close<br />
to the graduates in age and background and can provide<br />
healthy encouragement in terms of having successfully<br />
‘survived’ the first year after high school.<br />
Topics will include the more practical aspects of living<br />
independently in a college atmosphere or work field, such as:<br />
Living without Parents (which covers independent living<br />
skills such as laundry, cooking and managing finances.)<br />
Fitting In (Social connection, adjustment, college social<br />
clubs, finding one’s niche)<br />
Avoiding the Traps (Sex, drugs and rock n roll; negative<br />
relationships; isolation, etc.)<br />
Sign-up sheets will be available at each of the<br />
international schools and, for the first time, through a<br />
Facebook page that will be made available to teens through<br />
their school’s PTA and website.<br />
The intention is not only to make this retreat fun and<br />
useful for graduating seniors, but also to provide some key<br />
missing elements that will allow them to bloom where they<br />
are planted!<br />
Finally, The <strong>Center</strong> is looking for a parent-volunteer for<br />
next year to act as a community liaison to help continue<br />
this project into the future. For info, please contact Roma<br />
Mehta at coteditor@community.com.tw.<br />
teens unplugged<br />
Apr 2010<br />
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