Field Notes (Blog)
Noted on April 16, 2009 | By Natanya in
I have been many places in my life, from the scantly inhabited east coast of Zanzibar with its white sand beaches to the seemingly endless mountains of Peru where panpipes roll across the landscape with indescribable beauty. I have the suffering of a child dying of tetanus at the side of the road in Kenya and the luxury of the National Geographic cruiseliner in the Galapagos. None of this prepared me for what I was about to experience in India. 
India is officiously omnipresent, one can not hide from the things they see. Be it two children…
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Noted on April 16, 2009 | By Natanya in
Once a week the organization, Feed the Hungry, in San Miguel de Allende organizes a trip to a rural Mexican school at Los Ricos de Abajo to teach English to the students there. Diane Hart, who heads the Feed the Hungry organization and is a former director of the IE3 program also set up an English book library for the kids there, filled with colorful interactive books that make up for what is lost in translation for the Spanish speaking students. 
The week before I came to Mexico, Diane recruited me to work as an interpreter and…
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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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