Today is my last day in Uganda! It’s hard to believe it has been three months – in some ways I feel like I have been here forever, and in other ways they time has flown by. I think the friendliness and hospitality of my Ugandan friends and colleagues made me feel at home quite quickly here, but at the same time I am always … Continue reading Saying Goodbye to Uganda
The title pretty much sums it up. The past month at work has been a whirlwind of trainings, workshops, and conferences, and it will only continue – it is looking like it will be a marathon through the last few weeks of my time here! Although exhausting, the uptick in events that my organization has been hosting has been a great learning opportunity, and a … Continue reading A Whirlwind of Workshops
It’s hard to believe I’m almost a third of the way through my twelve-week internship! This week, I am in Western Uganda doing what we call “monitoring support and supervision” in three different districts. My colleagues and I have been meeting with the top education officials in each district, as well as visiting lots of schools and observing teachers in their classrooms. It has been … Continue reading Mountains and Matooke
Hello from Kampala! My first week and a half here has been great! Myself, along with all the other IEDP interns, are blogging about our experiences on this site, so check it out for updates on what we are all doing! I just completed my first post, so if you want to know more about what I’m doing in Uganda, you can read about it … Continue reading For more internship updates…
Greetings from Kampala! I am in Uganda this summer, interning with an international NGO. Getting to Uganda from the U.S. is not exactly easy. I left for the airport around 1 PM last Tuesday…and landed in Uganda at 10 AM Thursday. The first leg of travel was a red-eye to Amsterdam, followed by a 14-hour layover there. Luckily my aunt lives there, and she picked … Continue reading LIVE FROM KAMPALA
I say “long-awaited” because I know that the internship is what everyone really wants to know about. To be honest, I postponed writing anything about the internship for a while…because I didn’t have one. It’s only been in the last month or so that things really fell into place, and in just one week I’ll be heading to Uganda! I’ll be based in Kampala, working … Continue reading A Long Awaited Internship Post
So I told you to be on the lookout for a sappy end of year post and here it is… This is it! Final papers and projects are submitted (well, don’t talk to those of us in Dr. GK’s curriculum class) and on Saturday, many of us paraded through the Palestra in our caps and gowns to receive our diplomas. And by diplomas, I mean … Continue reading (Almost) The End
So in the next few weeks, expect a sentimental, end-of-year sappy wrap-up post. And then get ready for internship updates! But there is one (unrelated) post I wanted to get out first. When I was shopping for classes, I kept hearing one piece of advice over and over again: take classes outside of GSE. (In fact, I think I gave you the same advice earlier … Continue reading Branching Out of GSE: Courses in Other Schools
We have another guest post this week! Xuning Zhang is an IEDP student, originally from Beijing, who completed her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt last year. Xuning is interested in early childhood development. If you are a regular reader of the IEDP blog, you’ll know how close our cohort is. Not only do we take classes together, we also explore restaurants, go to on-campus events, and … Continue reading Guest Post: Life Outside IEDP
This week’s guest post is by current IEDP student Lisha Almeida. Lisha is from Mumbai, and before coming to IEDP she was a Teach for India fellow and worked in teacher training. With the Philly weather still being unseasonably chilly this past month, we were all ready for Mexico’s warm, warm welcome. As Arianna mentioned in her previous post, the Comparative and International Education Society … Continue reading Guest Post: CIES – A Whirlwind of Networking, Nopales and Knowledge for a Lifetime
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