For the last of my entries, I got inspired by a post of my fellow IEDPer, Morgan, who shared her daily schedule while in her internship in Germany. Here is a quick glance in my life as an intern here in Cape Town. Thursday, August 29, 2019. 8AM: My alarm rings at 8am, but I often wake up before the alarm. I am generally enjoying … Continue reading 24 hours as an IEDP intern in Cape Town
On this blog post I thought of talking a little bit about the different activities I have been doing here in Cape Town. The greatest adventure of them all happens definitely at work, where I analyze over 3000+ responses of beneficiaries for the project we are evaluating and design with the feedback of my colleagues an evaluation matrix that will guide the quantitative and qualitative … Continue reading Hiking up Table Mountain on a day I shouldn’t have and more adventures in Cape Town
As an intern at UNESCO IICBA my primary task has quickly become developing the Play & Resilience toolkit. Play & Resilience is China-Africa project targeting healthy and holistic Early Childhood Development in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. On my first day itself my supervisor Binyam shared the initial draft developed by a consultant that I had to expand into a toolkit. IEDP Prosem was a … Continue reading Play & Resilience, Plot Twists, and a Birthday Bash!
Time flies REALLY fast. REALLY. I have completed my 12-week internship in Uganda, and now I am writing this blog in China, on the way to go back to Japan. By the way, this trip is (again) super long, 24 hours in total. I would be super happy if I could successfully find my suite cases in Tokyo…Fingers crossed! Since the last blog, I have … Continue reading The end of journey – time to go back home
Time here in Addis has flown by and I’m coming up on my last week! My life in Ethiopia has proven a rewarding, and at times, a taxing experience. Perhaps I’ll write a personal reflection in a separate post, though I’ll be using this one to briefly share what I’ve been up to the last few weeks. Week 6 This work turned out to be … Continue reading Finishing Up
Hello from rainy, cold and incredibly beautiful Cape Town! It is hard to believe that I have officially been in South Africa for a month. I feel I have done, learned and seen so many things in the past 30 days that I don’t know how a single blog post will cover everything! Let me start with a quick update on what I have been … Continue reading Cape Town, iKapa, Kaapstad
I only have one more week left here in Gulu, Uganda which is hard to believe; time really does fly! I thought I would use this blog post update you on my projects at work, as they are wrap up this week. (The picture above is downtown Gulu at sunset last weekend). The main project I’ve been working on this summer is an action-research project … Continue reading Class size and collaboration: Learning from action-research in Gulu
Greetings in Ethiopia are one of a kind. Two parties meet, shake hands, and bump right shoulders before letting go. The bump can be a soft knock- pleasant and polite, or to really establish a connection, you may choose to aggressively crash shoulders and forge a real union. I’ve never encountered a more cogent and overall very cool style of greeting anywhere else, and this … Continue reading A Coursing River Through the Story of a Continent – Welcome to the ECA
It’s now the end of week six and, to be honest, I have trouble organizing my thoughts and all that has happened into a succinct blog post so please bear with me. As you can see from the title though, using the AZERTY keyboard at work has made using my personal laptop a little difficult. I guess you could say I’m adjusting well. Finding a … Continue reading Dqkqr-the Azerty Keyboard takes affect
I cannot believe it, but already 8 weeks have passed since I started my internship here in Uganda. I have 4 weeks left. It has not been very easy for me to work in a big organization, to be honest. Since I have worked only for small organizations/companies before, everything happening in my host organization was very new for me. Of course, I definitely learned … Continue reading 8 weeks have passed – what have I done?
The International Educational Development Program 