Hiking up Table Mountain on a day I shouldn’t have and more adventures 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

Play & Resilience, Plot Twists, and a Birthday Bash!

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!

Jamaica Journal- how the journey ends

This blog post is slightly overdue but I needed the time and the distance to be truly reflective. The last few weeks in Kingston were filled with an abundance of activity such as report generations, handover meetings- a general flurry of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s if you will. The fact that it spanned over two weeks was because July and August are … Continue reading Jamaica Journal- how the journey ends

Tchau, Brasil!

My internship at the UNESCO Office in Brazil has ended! It’s a cliche, but that doesn’t make it any less true: time has absolutely flown by. Not just this summer internship either. This time last year, I was returning home from Peace Corps to start my master’s at Penn. Now I’m one semester away from finishing. (And to those of my cohort who have finished, congratulations!) During … Continue reading Tchau, Brasil!

The end of journey – time to go back home

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

Amazing Memories in Thailand

Sadly, my amazing time at UNESCO Bangkok has come to an end, and as I reflected on my experiences, there are just so many wonderful moments, professionally, socially, and culturally to write about for my last blog. Continuing from my second blog, on July 11 and 12, I assisted my team, Non-Formal Education and Literacy, on a two-day workshop to launch an online course on lifelong … Continue reading Amazing Memories in Thailand