Field Notes (Blog)
Posts from March 2009
Noted on March 30, 2009 | By Christopher Bennett in
Students interested in business internships should read Africa, Business Destination, a great article from Time Magazine examining the business strengths of the African continent. Africa is not just a place for charity and development assistance. Parts of the continent are quickly becoming viable business partners.
IE3 Global Internships is continuing to develop business internships in Africa. Among those already existing are:
La Couronne Winery
Women in Progress
Others are in the works, so check back often!
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Noted on March 19, 2009 | By Natanya in
Video post by Simon Boas, IE3 intern at the Santiago Times in Santiago, Chile. Footage from International Women's Day.
International Women’s Day March: Santiago, Chile
Amnesty International organized an International Women’s Day march, as they do every year on March 8, in Santiago. Although it was relatively calm, the police had blocked off a lane of traffic on one of Santiago’s main streets for the march. A lot of middle fingers stuck out of car windows as they crept past the march through the congested streets. I can’t say whether this was anger directed against what the march stood for…
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Introduction This is the first of my blogs about my internship, so I figured I should introduce myself. My name is Shane Sanders, I am a senior at Oregon State University-Cascades campus in Bend and I’m doing my senior year abroad in France. I was in Lyon for the first semester doing study abroad and now I am in Poitiers doing a teaching internship through the IE3 internship program. I arrived in Poitiers four weeks ago and I was able to do two weeks of my internship before there was a two week school vacation. I cannot wait to start…
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Noted on March 8, 2009 | By Christopher Bennett in
This is the second of two entries in recognition of International Women's Day on March 8. This entry includes excerpts from Chris Mitchell's article, "Olive Schreiner: Story of a South African Woman." The article was originally written for "Making Waves," the Southern African Media and Gender Institute's newsletter. Read the first entry, Chris' personal reflections on her encounter with the manuscripts here.
The writings of Olive Schreiner are an important contribution to the history of South Africa. Ms Schreiner’s staunch support of equal rights in late 1800s and early 1900s has been heralded as regionally…
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Noted on March 6, 2009 | By Natanya in
Link to article "Hispanic enrollment on the rise"
This article states that one out of every five K-12 students in the U.S. is Hispanic. For this reason, university students should really consider a teaching internship in Latin America in order to meet the growing need for teachers with Spanish language and cross-cultural competency. Options for teaching internships in Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador and Chile.
Questions can be directed to the IE3 Global Internships Latin America Regional Director, {encode="monya.lemery@ous.edu"…
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