As I wrapped up my last project at Sesame Workshop India (SWI)-creating an activity guide for caregivers to strengthen children’s executive functioning skills, my summer internship in Delhi has officially come to an end. I couldn’t have asked for a better place to intern at, and my only wish is that my visa allows me to stay a little bit longer. When I first … Continue reading Me Will Come Back One Day!
I got to wear my teacher hat this past week of my internship. Well, sort of. I was scheduled to do a skill share regarding life skills in Cambodia, where i would present the research I had been doing for the last two months, along with my recommendations for the pilot project and the framework. I thought a few of my colleagues from the program … Continue reading Teacher hat, elections and more
After an hour plane ride, 10-minutes on a mototaxi, and two hours in a deslizador (motorboat), two of my co-workers and I had arrived at Nueva Betania, an indigenous Shipibo community of approximately 400 residents in the jungle of Ucayali, Peru. We were there to meet with teachers, students, and other community members and gather their perspectives on the impact of UNICEF’s Escuelas Amigas program. … Continue reading Out of the Office and into the Amazon
It has been more than 6 weeks since I came to Pristina. I have already got used to the city and people. Moreover, I have learned several phrases in Albanian. One can say that Kosovar in me who was sleeping before woke up this time. Those who know me well aware of the fact how hard for me to be an awake (lol). Therefore in … Continue reading Be an ASSET!
If I recall this correctly, in Dr. GK’s curriculum class, she once did an exercise where we had to choose between certain education ideologies – knowledge centered or student centered; social efficiency or social reconstruction. We made our choices, stood beside the white boards with the initials of the ideology in big black letters, gave our reasons for choosing the particular ideology and defended it. … Continue reading The dilemmas
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
The International Educational Development Program 