Habitat for Humanity Philippines

This will probably be my last post for a while. My wife and I are leading a group of 16 SAS juniors and seniors to Lucena City on the Luzon Island in the Philippines next week to build a house with Habitat for Humanity. The following week, we take another group of 24 sophomores to Chengdu in China’s Sichuan Province. I doubt I’ll be blogging much from these two places, however I am sure I’ll have a lot to blog about when I get back. Check back around October 15 and we’ll be back in full swing here at Shanghai American School.

In the mean time, if you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the new SAS Economists student blog where our AP and IB students have begun their careers as bloggers with much enthusiasm and several great posts have already appeared! These kids are amazing writers and some of their blog posts include analysis that goes way beyond what I would expect of them only 5 weeks into their Principles of Economics course! Way to go guys, keep it up and I hope some of you choose to post while I’m away on these trips.

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About the author:  Jason Welker teaches International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Economics at Zurich International School in Switzerland. In addition to publishing various online resources for economics students and teachers, Jason developed the online version of the Economics course for the IB and is has authored two Economics textbooks: Pearson Baccalaureate’s Economics for the IB Diploma and REA’s AP Macroeconomics Crash Course. Jason is a native of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and is a passionate adventurer, who considers himself a skier / mountain biker who teaches Economics in his free time. He and his wife keep a ski chalet in the mountains of Northern Idaho, which now that they live in the Swiss Alps gets far too little use. Read more posts by this author

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