Field Notes (Blog)
Noted on August 17, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
by Erin Davis as featured in OSU Abroad: Oregon State University student interning with Ballymun, a placement through Individualized Placements in Ireland.
Dia Dhuit!..or, Hello, if you happen to not speak Gaeilge. Only about one in five people in Ireland speak this traditional language, but it’s still an integral part of the culture, printed on the top of all traffic signs and spoken during certain hours on live television. This mixture of traditional and modern life is prevalent not only in the language but also in the architecture, the…
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Noted on August 10, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
By Laura McMahon: Oregon State University student and IE3 Summer 2010 Scholarship Recipient interning with Sea Turtles 911 in China
I’m Laura McMahon, a senior in Fisheries and Wildlife Science at Oregon State University. I am interning with Sea Turtles 911, a non profit organization working to save sea turtles in the South China Sea around Hainan Island. I feel as if I have adapted to life in China quickly, even without knowing the language. I have…
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Noted on August 2, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
by David Duke: University of Oregon student interning with AMIDEAST in Tunis, Tunisia.
So there I was.... sprinting like a star running back (more like a sweaty stumbling shuffle jogger) with a 40 lb. backpack and a cat crate in each hand from the ticket counter, through security, to the end of the terminal, onto a bus, and onto the Tunis Air shuttle across the Mediterranean Sea. This was one of the more fantastic feats of athleticism since my Army days. Seriously. We are…
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Noted on July 26, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
By Ann Oluloro: University of Oregon student and IE3 Scholarship Recipient interning with Child Family Health International (CFHI) in La Paz, Bolivia
Last week I completed my rotation in the general pediatric department with Dr. Bocangel. I enjoy general medicine because of the variety of cases that general practitioners can see on any given day. In the general pediatric unit, here at Hospital del Niño the cases presented are as varied as are the patients.
Each…
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Noted on July 19, 2010 | By Giustina Pelosi in
By Roxana Norouzi: IE3 and University of Washington Alum with a Master's degree in Social Work. Interned with Grassroots Community Development in Sumer 2009.
Last summer, as I completed my first year of the Master’s in Social Work Program at the University of Washington, I conducted a portion of my practicum placement in a rural area of India through IE3. At this time, I could not anticipate how this experience would change my view of the world,…
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