For a few moments, take a trip down memory lane with me. Think of a scenic flight you took or the opportunity you had to gaze down at a vista from atop a hill. Remember how perfect everything looked from far away? The straight-lined crop plantations, the flawlessly paved roads, the immaculate green of pine trees, it all looked so perfect. Almost too perfect. And … Continue reading Imperfect perfections
Hello from Cape Town! For the last weeks of my internship, I have been working in the Cape Town office. In my last day, my colleagues organized a small farewell ceremony for me. Once again, I realized Joburg is not the best but my all internship experience and people in the office are awesome. During my internship, I have learned a lot not only the … Continue reading Adventureful South Africa
Well Well Well. Time flew by so fast! I am in the last few weeks of my marathon, but I must say this… the experience has been great! In the first two months of my internship, I have been on a learning mode, in terms of skills, organizational culture, the work ethics, the logistics involved in a large-scale project implementation, data analysis and implementation, series … Continue reading Asante Sana, Thank you, Kenya.
I feel like I haven’t spent much time over the past 5 years of my education to really reflect on what I’ve learned or who I was becoming. The close of my Parisian experience is quickly approaching, and I feel like I understand myself better now than I ever have before, and it feels really great to say that. At the beginning of this experience, … Continue reading “To be with those I like is enough” -Walt Whitman
Work details: In my last blog I mentioned that my task is to really understand Epistemic Network Analysis and to think about how coding works in quantitative research. I attended a workshop where I learnt more about quantitative ethnography and the use of ENA to study international collaboration in STEM. Then I learnt more about it by reading a book by David Shaffer. It was … Continue reading Travailler Dans Le Temps D’une Canicule
“Little by little”…. Little by little, life in Amman is beginning to feel more normal. Days are relaxed and comfortable here, which is a welcome contrast to my hectic life at Penn! Though I hit the ground running when I first arrived– quite literally, considering the car accident mentioned in my last post— over the past two weeks I have really begun to settle in, … Continue reading Shway shway
As I was packing my staff to leave Philadelphia at the beginning of the summer, I remember feeling anxious and a little scared. I was not sure what was waiting for me on the other side of the world, and as I mentioned on my first blogpost, I am not the necessarily the best with transitions. Surprisingly, these same feelings came back to me, as … Continue reading Withdrawals of the Hanseatic City
Remember telling someone in office that you were good at something, only to be inundated with requests from colleagues left, right and center to help them with that particular thing? Well, such has been my lot in the past few days. I was asked to work on a simple, innocent-looking MS-Excel file, which I did to the best of my abilities. Little did I know … Continue reading A skill in demand
It’s almost the final stage of my internship, only 2 weeks left. I’m already used to many things here. The only thing I cannot get used to so far is the ubiquitous smoke and smell of the cigarettes. In Kosovo, almost everyone is smoking: from young to elderly people. Perhaps this is due in some way to the traditions or just because cigarettes are very … Continue reading One year wiser
My work at World Learning continues with more annotated bibliographies. (If you don’t know what they are, read my last post, or in fact, just don’t. Human beings are better off without knowing certain things.) In work related developments, though, I have an additional supervisor. The fantastic Radmila is also a Senior Education Specialist who is working on a donor-funded program that she wants me … Continue reading What is better than one supervisor are two supervisors
The International Educational Development Program 