Hi, everyone! I’m Emi and I’m spending this summer in Bangkok, Thailand. I’m interning with an international organization and working with a teacher education team which currently focuses on gender sensitive teacher professional development as well as other initiatives designed to support teachers in Asia-Pacific region. It’s my third time to visit Thailand but first time to live and work in Bangkok. I’m very excited … Continue reading New life in Bangkok, Thailand
Hallo, everyone! Arriving in Bonn was a trip and a halfffff. The complexity was intentional for the sake of a cheaper plane ticket and wow, was it an adventure. Now that I’m here and settled, I am so happy and I’ve more or less slid into my groove. But let’s start from the beginning! After “graduation” (those of us graduating immediately following Internship walked in … Continue reading Guten “Morgan” from Germany!
I’m Matt and I’m spending this summer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I’m interning with Geneva Global, a philanthropic firm that supervises an accelerated learning program for out-of-school children, called Speed Schools, being implemented with local partners in Ethiopia. Since launched in 2011, over 100,000 students have graduated from the program, gaining foundational skills necessary to enroll in Ethiopia’s public school system. My international experience … Continue reading Week 1 in Ethiopia: Speed School, Field Visits, & Food Poisoning
As I read my latest internship blog post to prepare for this post, I was shocked to learn that so much had happened in three weeks! In last post, it had been a week since I arrived in Paris and now, it’s been a month since I’ve started my internship here. I have so much to share so let’s jump right into the business without … Continue reading La vie à Paris poursuivit…
So I will have you know that it is very interesting to be mistaken for a local in a place that is very unfamiliar to you. It is even more interesting to be in a country that shares the same name as you. Yet, I love it. It has been a dream of mine to travel to India one day, and I am still wrapping … Continue reading नमस्ते- Namaste! Hello from India!
I wanted to mention a few other things about getting to Brasília and living here. Even though some of my points could be summed up with I don’t know, I’m keeping them in, so I remember what I didn’t know, and so I can give better advice at the end of my internship. Visa: I’m not an expert on the visa situation for interns traveling … Continue reading Details
Brasília is not like any other city I’ve ever visited, let alone lived in. It was designed and built from scratch relatively recently (1960). From above, it looks a little like an airplane, and it’s often referred to that way. There’s a ‘fuselage’ and a northern and southern wing. The fuselage is the seat of government as well as the location of several other symbolic … Continue reading City
Hi, everyone! I’m Ian from the Philippines and I am currently doing my internship with Room to Read in India. I am working with the Research, Monitoring, and Evaluation team. I am spending 6 weeks with the India Country Office (INCO) and 5 weeks with the Global Office (GO). My experience of New Delhi reminds me so much of home. There are a lot of … Continue reading Incredible India!
“Attendants please prepare for landing.” I slowly turned my head to the right to see the sun glisten the ocean through the plexiglass – blinding me. We were hovering the immense body of water, and still I didn’t see the landing strip. I had to trust the plane wasn’t going to be gulped by the water but instead touch land with it’s — THUD. Welcome … Continue reading Roatán Reflections
As I mentioned, it’s already been two weeks since I came to Brasília. It seems longer to me, because I already feel quite at home. Getting here was easy. I flew from Philadelphia and had one layover in Miami. One thing that was the tiniest bit tricky was timing. We were scheduled to land in Brasilia at 5:00 am, and we ended up arriving early! … Continue reading Home
The International Educational Development Program 