Posted by Emma Costain on March 18th, 2012
Hi, there! My name is Emma Costain and I am currently finishing my second year as a Political Science major, Comparative Religion minor at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. This year, I decided to join the Co-op program here at Acadia in order to gain some work experience while I study… and here I [...]
Posted by Alexandra Bly on March 15th, 2012
I’m not a big fan of cliches, but when I think of how little time is left at my placement in Vietnam the expression “time flies” seems appropriate. As I was getting over jet lag, the country was getting over Tet lag, and finally in mid-February things at work really picked up. Admittedly, teaching english [...]
Posted by Chloe Piche on March 14th, 2012
It had been rumored for a while that the food rations were going to be cut by half in Dzaleka refugee camp. The students who already go hungry at the end of the month knew this may happen, there was a loud buzz about it around camp. They wrote a letter to Clotilde the supervisor [...]
Posted by Jenipher on March 13th, 2012
Hola! Me llamo Jen, and this Summer I am going with SWB to Peru, to the city of Chiclayo, to teach English. Where I have had opportunities to teach ESL before, this will be an experience far beyond what I have done or worked on here in Canada. Before I continue, a little background… I [...]
Posted by Katie Durvin on March 12th, 2012
They say that once you go to Africa, a part of you deep down inside never really leaves-even after you have travelled back home and continue on with your daily life. It’s as if your heart has finally found its home. I remember the exact moment when I realized that this had happened to me. [...]
Posted by Inga Taube on March 6th, 2012
I was sitting behind the university yesterday, enjoying the sun (and the lack of snow!) and I realized how grateful I am for getting to experience this country. My work is starting to wrap up; there are still some loose ends but the handbook is starting to look really good. It’s been challenging at times [...]
Posted by Zoe Tupling on March 6th, 2012
In communication, within workplace and personal relationships alike, I have come across one method of giving criticism/bad news that I am partial to: it is called the sandwich method. The idea is to try to take a piece of negative information and wrap it up in double portions of positivity so as to make it [...]
Posted by Chloe Piche on February 28th, 2012
Living in a country where there is no garbage removal system in place has proven the idea to me that we Westerners produce so much waste. Here in Malawi my house mates and I produce about one grocery bag size of garbage a week. Comparing this to my garbage production in Canada, this is quite [...]
Posted by Zoe Tupling on February 18th, 2012
I’ve always been captivated by the power of the elements. Nature choosing its moment to remind us of our subordinate role to its power. As a Canadian, I am often impressed/dismayed by mountains of snow that seem to magically emerge from the sky. One snowflake at a time, in a dainty flutter, or gangs of [...]
Posted by Chloe Piche on February 17th, 2012
After 9 kilometers of walking up and around these windy bends, I have almost made it to the Dzaleka Refugee Camp. On the way there, there are maybe 2-3 cars that pass, the foot traffic though is crazy. There are hundreds of people on their way to work in the field, to get water, to [...]
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