Estonia: Internship: A Day In The Life: “Interning, Learning, & Growing” by Dong Dinh

Interning, Learning, and Growing

I finally started my internship at EducationUSA and have been working about 30-40 hours a week. So far the job has been busy but slow. Busy as in I am meeting new people, visiting new places, working on presentations to give to highschool, college, and elementary school students, and going into the mindset that I am the representative of the United States. It scares me a little because I will be one of the few U.S persons that students get to talk and interact with professionally and casually. Since I am a native speaker of English, my colleague has been emailing schools around Estonia to see if they would want me to come and do a presentation about the US educational system and about US culture. I can say that in the next couple of months, I will be exploring new towns, cities and places all around Estonia!

 

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South Korea: Mid Program “A Normal Tuesday” by Taiya Brown

 

New Zealand: Mid Program: “New Adventures” by Ian Faulds

 

New Adventures

New Zealand is amazing! I love it here so much, and I can see myself returning to Wellington again to live. Wellington is much like a mix of Vancouver, BC, Portland, OR, and Bellingham, with lots of artistic people all over the city playing music and painting (gratify is all over, but it isn’t associated with gangs, just really neat art).

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