 Hi my name is Cassie Owensmore and I am a librarian from Seneca, South Carolina and this is why I decided to apply for the Global Learning Fellowship. I teach in a small town in a small rural town and it's lovely and it's wonderful but I was really concerned that my students would not experience a world outside of our small community and then I started thinking about it you know I haven't really traveled a lot myself and so I can't ask my students to do something that I haven't done and so I decided to apply to the Global Learning Fellowship so that I can get that experience of being in another culture experience another language you know learning about their history and the people and bring that back to my students so that I can ignite this fire of being a global learner in my kids because I can't be a global teacher if I haven't stepped out either so I had to step out of my comfort zone and I'm a little nervous but I'm really excited about what I'm teaching my students that it's okay to be nervous that it's okay to to be a little uneasy but even in that uneasiness and even in that nervousness we can step out and meet people and interact with people and engage with people and learn from people who look different from us who speak a different language who have different ideas because that's what global learning is about it's about meeting people and learning from them