I have seen so much of South Africa, learned so much about the South African education system, and met some incredible people over the last 10 weeks, and I cannot believe that it is suddenly coming to an end. I head back to the States on Monday, but I will forever hold these memories and the things that I have learned here close to my … Continue reading The Finale
Internship highlights: Over the past few weeks, I have had the opportunity to be more involved in the ECD project I talked about in my last post. As I mentioned earlier, I was in the Limpopo province for a week, during which my time was split between doing work in the satellite office there and visiting schools with trainers to provide school-based support to Grade … Continue reading ECD Project & Elephant Sightings
My final week at JET Education Services (JET) was a sprint to the finish line. I began the week right where I started my internship, at the Johannesburg office. After eight weeks away in the Cape Town office it was nice to see Joburg based co-workers in person, but I didn’t have much time to catch up. Instead I was busy helping to put the … Continue reading The Final Sprint
2 months into my internship, I got to the part I had been waiting for the whole time- field trips. I was tasked with visiting 20 schools in 12 days, across 2 counties and across a 100 km radius. The project I was meant to observe is being implemented in 43 schools across Mombasa and Kwale. Since I was not conducting an evaluation of the … Continue reading Of field trips in far away places
I’ve been in Lilongwe for ten weeks and while I feel relatively well adjusted, I keep encountering the same refrain: “You haven’t experienced Malawi until you’ve visited the lake.” Not wanting to pass on the scene everyone kept talking about, I decided to take a short trip to finally visit the famed “Lake of Stars.” For blog readers unfamiliar with Malawi, the eponymous lake makes … Continue reading Malawi: Lake of Stars
The country head of Geneva Global – Uganda (GG-U), where I am interning for the next two months, likes to tell her new team-members to hit the ground running like “a paratrooper dropped from a parachute into enemy territory, ready to take and return fire even before (s)he lands”. What she doesn’t say (maybe because she thinks it is a given) is that the organization … Continue reading Work, fun, food, life – an internship
I cannot believe I have been in South Africa for a month. I should mention that I don’t find strange anymore having the second winter in the same year. I have a blanket at the office to stay warm 🙂 I can say that I am handling the culture shock very well thanks to the work and traveling around. Regarding the work, I have done so … Continue reading Being teacher in South Africa
I’m officially half way through my internship! The past few weeks have been filled with some great adventures and learning experiences, and I am definitely grateful for the opportunity to be here in South Africa! Over the last few weeks, Nicole and I have been involved in two projects. AFAL (African Languages as a First Additional Language) Lesson Plans: In South Africa, students learn in … Continue reading Lesson Plans and Lions
Anddd I’m finally here! In Addis Ababa with UNESCO International Institute of Capacity Building for Africa (IICBA), just living my best life. I’ve been here for little over a week now. To be honest, I was nervous before getting on my flight. Really excited and thankful for the opportunity, but also just… genuinely terrified. This isn’t my first time making a big move or living … Continue reading Addis Living
The past two weeks have been interesting, as it is the first time that I have ventured out of Nairobi. Being a part of a program monitoring and evaluation team, I have been witnessing some of the ways in which learning is measured (mostly through literacy and numeracy). As we traveled to Nakuru, a small town in the North-western part of Kenya, I was struck … Continue reading Life Outside Nairobi
The International Educational Development Program 