According to wikipedia, people from Hamburg are called a Hamburgers, and for this post, I’ve decided to agree with wikipedia. So, I can say that I am slowly becoming a Hamburger. (Bad dad joke, I know, but bear with me)… In the last few weeks, Hamburg has started to feel like home! I finally know my way around the city (although, I have to admit … Continue reading Becoming a Hamburger?
صباح الخير [sabah alkhyr], or good morning from Amman, Jordan! Sadly, after a week that’s still about the extent of my knowledge of Arabic…and it’s not even morning right now. And full disclosure: I had to google the correct romanization after learning it phonetically from my Uber driver (more on that later). I originally had it typed in my phone as “saba alhair”– you can go … Continue reading Jordan or Japan?
In my first couple of weeks in Paris, I had a range of experiences; good and bad, and I could not make up my mind about how I felt towards the city. It took me a few days to get my rusty French language skills going again, which has helped make my stay a lot more pleasant. Speaking French, or at least trying to speak … Continue reading Ici c’est Paris
Namaste and greetings from New Delhi! It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve already been here for almost two weeks when just a month ago it seemed like I would have to make alternative plans for my internship. After multiple phone calls, several exasperated emails, anda fruitless trip to the Indian Consulate in New York City over the course of two months, I had … Continue reading Coffee or Chai?
Five weeks have come and gone since I arrived in Lilongwe – a stretch of time that has seen relatively few difficult days. Even my first week living at the ‘All Creatures’ kennel proved more interesting than it did anything else. Lilongwe is warm and pleasant, a temperament reflected in the welcoming nature of its roughly 1.3 million inhabitants. I need to give a shout … Continue reading Update from Lilongwe: Tax Reform and Girls’ Education
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
Um okay, where has the time gone?! Six weeks in – officially half way through my stay in Beirut and I feel like I just got here (which is why this post is so late, didn’t I just write my first blog last week?). Yet, I also feel like I leave tomorrow and have zero time to do everything I still want to do. I … Continue reading Learning with World Learning
The beginning of the internship has been quite exciting. As an intern in the Monitoring and evaluation team, I am witnessing one of the busiest times of the year because the end line assessments and impact assessments for all the projects are here! The pressure at its peak, people running around the office, hundreds of meetings, people chasing invisible deadlines, is a daily routine in … Continue reading Tooling and schooling around Nairobi
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
It’s hard to believe I’m almost a third of the way through my twelve-week internship! This week, I am in Western Uganda doing what we call “monitoring support and supervision” in three different districts. My colleagues and I have been meeting with the top education officials in each district, as well as visiting lots of schools and observing teachers in their classrooms. It has been … Continue reading Mountains and Matooke
