The city and beyond Get ready to go bananas. Would I ever have thought that there would be a bigger twist in the story? Absolutely not, but always delighted by and spiced with the surprises in my life. March turned out to be a rollercoaster after all. Except for the ambulance siren sound at least 5 times a day, the sound of silence around the world … Continue reading Internship in the eyes of a pandemic beholder
The city and beyond Two months in D.C. got me thinking that this capital city is very much like the capital of my home country, Ankara, Turkey. The flow of cars, people dressed up in formal wear going to work and leaving work around the same time, monuments and memorials, many government buildings, and offices have evoked the memories of my monotonous year in Ankara. … Continue reading Internship in the eyes of a Washingtonian
The city and beyond My second time in D.C. takes me back to the time when I first visited the city precisely ten years ago. The time when the weather was cold but my heart as immensely warm. I feel like the city hasn’t changed at all. Maybe, because the museums stayed in the same places? Voila! After the three-hour ride, I had my tourist … Continue reading Internship in the eyes of a tourist
It is my last week at R4D! How is it here already?! Trip to Eurasia It has been less than a month since my last blog post so not much has happened work-wise, but a lot of interesting things took place outside of work! For starters, I traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan for the first time. It was gorgeous! Visiting all the major post-Soviet cities has … Continue reading Dobby is free!
Fall 2019 was the perfect time for a Tunisian to intern in Washington D.C.: September 15 was the first round of our presidential election, October 6 was the parliamentary election and October 13 was the second round of the presidential election. It was an extremely busy political schedule for the country and for myself since I decided to volunteer in observing these elections. The election … Continue reading Networking and International Development
Whenever my supervisor and I would casually talk about the “NGCN program”, she would tell me that I was meant to be among the team who implements it. In fact, I was planning to do a summer internship before a change of plans. Little did I know at the time that another change of plans was also taking place at World Learning where the launch … Continue reading A Pilot Virtual Exchange Program
After spending almost two years in Philadelphia, the nation’s first capital, time has come for me to move to the actual capital city of the United States: Washington D.C. The day I was leaving Philly, I had mixed feelings: Undoubtedly, I was excited about the new adventure, all the opportunities that lie ahead. Yet, I did feel a bit emotional seeing the center city’s iconic … Continue reading Off to another Capital City
So, I know this is late. Instead of writing on my flight back (check out previous blog) I fell asleep. Then a week later I had another long flight but got distracted by some political unrest. So much has happened in Santiago and at work during my last month of internship! Field Trip #1: Paris, France I wrote my last blog on a very long … Continue reading Field Trips
As I was preparing to write this final post about my fall internship with UNICEF Bolivia, I looked back on some of my peers’ final blog entries, to gain some inspiration for what parting words of wisdom I should share here. Reading only a handful of posts was enough to remind me that the ending to my internship experience was not like many of my … Continue reading Wrapping up internship, part 2: Learning & gratitude
whirl•wind/ˈ(h)wərlˌwind/nounA column of air moving rapidly around and around in a cylindrical or funnel shape. Used in similes and metaphors to describe a very energetic or tumultuous person or process. That is the only way to describe the last three weeks. Although we’re only in the first week of November (and I was supposed to be in Bolivia until the end of November), it may … Continue reading Wrapping up internship, part 1: What’s going on in Bolivia?
The International Educational Development Program 