Field Notes (Blog)
Noted on November 28, 2011 | By Natanya Desai in
Written by Klarissa Meinholtz: University of Montana student and IE3 Alumna who interned with Easy Languages in Belgium and England during the summer of 2011.
It has literally been two and a half months since I took the plane back to the United States from Brussels, Belgium and the stark reality that I must choose what to do with my life still reins before me. This internship was my last class before graduating this summer and even now a piece of me misses school. My friends…
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Noted on November 24, 2011 | By Natanya Desai in
Written by Sierra Severson: University of Oregon student and IE3 scholarship recipient interning with Engranajes Community Center in Argentina.
Today, Friday November 18, 2011, I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the eighth March for Children’s Rights here in Villa Constitución, Santa Fe; this Sunday, November 20th, marks 22 years since the founding of the International Convention for Children’s Rights. The entire day was dedicated to celebrating children, a reminder that they are worthy and deserving of the very things that they are…
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Noted on November 21, 2011 | By Natanya Desai in
Written by Heather Cereda: Western Oregon University student and IE3 scholarship recipient interning with Universal Study Centre (USC) in Tanzania.
I am here in Zanzibar working through the Universal Study Centre (USC), at a little private school by the name of Ruscentre. Ruscentre is a primary age school with standards one through five. I am teaching in the standard one and the standard five classrooms. My standard one class has eleven students ranging from ages six to…
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Noted on November 17, 2011 | By Natanya Desai in
Written by Megan Meyer: University of Oregon student and IE3 Scholarship recipient interning with individualized internships in Kenya.
I am having a great time here in Kenya! I am currently in the middle of the 4th week of my internship and time feels like it is literally flying by!
As far as the work I have been doing, I am working on a few different projects. One is called a Memory Box project, where I am going into the villages to interview women about their lives. I ask about their…
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Noted on November 14, 2011 | By Natanya Desai in
Charles "Charlie" Thompson is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic after working as an AmeriCorps and WWOOF volunteer. He is a 2008 alumnus of IE3 who completed an internship with Asociacion Ajb' atz' Enlace Quiché in Guatemala.
A lot has changed since June of 2008 when I left my job as a web development contractor in Milwaukie, Oregon to intern with IE3 in Guatemala. The lens through which I see my career is different, and while to some the developments of the last three-and-a-half years might seem discouraging; to me they have meant growth…
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