Parque Tumbes

Noted on February 21, 2012 | By IE3 Student in

Written by Katharina-Victoria Perez: Oregon State University student interning with CODEFF in Talcahuano, Chile.

Currently, I am interning for the Chilean environmental, nongovernmental, organization Comité Nacional Pro Defensa de la Flora y Fauna (CODEFF). I am stationed in Talcahuano which is about 40 minutes west of Concepcion along the coast. Talcahuano is an industrial, fishing, port-town which has been severely affected by dwindling fish populations and also the 8.8 earthquake and resulting tsunami of 2010.

I am working in Parque Tumbes, an urban national park, that is managed…

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Bienvenidos a Mexico!

Noted on February 7, 2012 | By IE3 Student in

Written by Victoria Leca: Portland State University student and scholarship recipient interning with ITESM in Queretaro, Mexico.

This is the first phrase I heard once I got off the plane in Queretaro, Mexico and this will be how my first month here will feel – like a welcome celebration where people are happy that you chose to try to learn their culture and their lifestyles. I have never met more hospitable and friendly people than my host family (together with all their relatives that I met at…

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