Field Notes (Blog)
Noted on July 21, 2011 | By Giustina Pelosi in
Written by Jamaica Robinson: IE3 Scholarship recipient and Portland State University student interning with Fundacion Educacion Popular en Salud (EPES) in Santiago, Chile.
How does three months worth of life squish so readily—or possibly with a bit of grumbling coercion and brute force—into two suitcases and two-point-five carry-ons? For that matters, how does a quarter of a year pack away…at all? Even if that is possible, I am not sure how my brain is going to accomplish it.
It has been two weeks since I returned to Portland, Oregon, from Santiago de…
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Noted on July 18, 2011 | By Giustina Pelosi in
Written by David W. Moody: University of Oregon student interning with Teaching in Rosario in Argentina!
Beneath a turquoise sky, liquid curtains wide enough for the windows of the universe, plummet into bottomless vapor storms. Skyloads of water, like all the rivers of the world combined, dive in sparkling arches from red rock ledges and surrender to gravity. It falls into green canyons from every direction, atomizing…
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Noted on July 14, 2011 | By Giustina Pelosi in
Written by Matthew Coomer: University of Montana student and IE3 Scholarship Recipient interning with Elephant Nature Foundation in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
All photos by Matt Coomer.
Saying elephants are large animals is like saying the sun is bright: even though you’re explicitly stating the obvious, sometimes it just slips out. Though I mixed it up with synonyms, I must’ve said, “Elephants are so [insert varied adjective for big]!” several times during my first stay at the Elephant Nature Park. Being near these animals in person, rather than from a zoo - managed distance, makes one forget…
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Noted on July 11, 2011 | By Giustina Pelosi in
Featuring Allegra Sage Hall: University of Oregon student interning with Easy Languages in Brussels, Belgium!
Allegra is a summer intern with Easy Languages, and is posting regularly on the Language Traveler Blog. One of her more recent posts, "Art Protesting: A Look at the Innovative Street Artist BLU", shares with readers the work of an Italian street artist name BLU who travels the world creating "artisitic statements, more like protests, about humanity and westernized societies." Visit Allegra's blog at http://blog.easylanguages.com/2011/06/art-protesting-look-at-innovative.html to learn more. For now, here is a sneak peak at BLU's…
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Noted on July 7, 2011 | By Giustina Pelosi in
Written by Katharina Werner: University of Montana student and IE3 Scholarship recipient interning with Chiatanya in rural India.
I have been in India for about 3 weeks now and ever since I got off the airplane in Mumbai it has been a rollercoaster of experiences, sights, smells and emotions. I slept most of my flight to India but woke up when the plane approached the city. When I was able to make out details, I saw what I had only known from readings: Next to middle- and upper-class apartment buildings, hotels, and business complexes stood rows after rows…
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