DISCLAIMER: this post may be a little boring for some readers. Not much blog-worthy adventuring has happened since my last post, so this post will be dedicated to detailing what I have been up to at the office. If this sounds interesting, allez-y. Otherwise, go check out Cait’s newest blog post – it’s really fun! A I mentioned in the last post, the culminating project … Continue reading Notes From The Office: 2 Months Down
1 year older 2 field visits 3 supervisors 4 rounds of revision 5 concurrent projects 36 pages of report 57 photos 280 kilometers of traveling and countless learning moments ————————————————————————————————————————————- If I were to summarize my first month in India with numbers, these are definitely the highlights that come to mind. The past few weeks have been filled with surprises (good ones), challenges, lots of … Continue reading One Year Older, One Year Wiser
The intern office, or bureau des stagiares is located at the end of a long, spotless hallway on the second floor of the four-story building. We are six interns in all, two senegalese, one canadian, one japanese, a frenchman and myself, each working in pairs on projects ranging from health and sex education to the social sciences and civic engagement. My supervisor is responsible for all programming … Continue reading Notes From The Office: First Month as a Stagiare
After 12 hours flight by Norwegian Airlines, I landed to Pristina at late evening of Saturday. The taxi driver from the Beki taxi (recommended, they have Wi-Fi in every vehicle) dropped me off at the district called Sunny Hill where I was welcomed by Andelina and her husband. It should be noted that I have been feeling a real support from my future colleagues since … Continue reading Faleminderit Kosovo! (Thank you Kosovo!)
Sand-swept streets, evening prayers and giant mangoes. Welcome to Dakar. — After nearly thirty hours of continuous travel and no sleep, I finally arrived at the newly constructed Blaise Diagne International Airport on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. Shaking off the looming exhaustion, I quickly set to work, passing through border customs, exchanging my USD for West African CFA, notifying the airport personnel of my … Continue reading “Tropicalization” : Adapting to Life in Dakar
Two weeks after finding out I was headed to Paris for my internship, I land in the Orly airport – frantic, frustrated, and with only $300 to my name. During this whole internship process, I couldn’t help but to continuously feel like nothing was going to work out; I was watching my peers land internships all around me, watching their excitement grow at the same … Continue reading Mixed Feelings and Lots of Macaroons
Generosity: this word pretty much sums up my first day in Peru. 15 hours after bidding farewell to Philadelphia on a sunny Wednesday afternoon, I walked out of the Lima airport into the thick fog that fills the streets on winter mornings. I was greeted by Einsten (yes, Einsten, not Einstein), a friend of my Airbnb host who operates a taxi service part-time. As we … Continue reading A Warm Welcome to Peru
The matchmaking is over. After hundreds of emails, interviews, and general running around, the IEDP internships are about to begin! The 2017-18 cohort will be all over the map – from right here in the USA, down to Peru, over onto the African continent (Senegal, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia), through the Middle East (Jordan and Lebanon), and into Asia (India, Cambodia, China and … Continue reading Ready, set, go!
Summaries appear in several ways, though they always depend on the situation. For this internship, they can be formal, shaped into final reports and reflections both written and spoken that are shared with supervisors and professors. As I’ve found with family members, the summary is often confined to a few sentences that use far too many blanket statements. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll have an … Continue reading Internship reflections
Well, the final week is over, and I have two days to go before I leave Cambodia. Cue the sentimental music? Well… Though I am saddened to be ending my contract with AAC and saying goodbye to my wonderful coworkers, I don’t necessarily want to dedicate this post to a review of my internship. I simply wanted to further enlighten my readers (all 17 of … Continue reading Work.2
The International Educational Development Program 