The day we’ve been looking to for the last four years has
finally arrived: I’ve departed to Nepal for placement. I’m currently on the
plane from Montreal to Doha, on hour 9 of a lovely 12 hour flight. It seems so
surreal to me right now that we’re actually going on placement. All throughout
University placement has just been this thing that will happen in the future
and it’s weird to me that I’m actually doing it now, but I’m incredibly excited
to get there and get started.
Yesterday morning I also received noticed for a change to my
mandate. Before I was going to be working as a documentation intern for a
climate change project under the Integrated Development Society (IDS) but I am
now being moved to a documentation intern for the Multi-stakeholder Forestry
Project, a collaborative
project between IDS, CECI and a couple other organizations. The work
I will be doing will be preparing reports, promotional material, and creating a
website for the project. According to my new mandate, I will also have the
opportunity to travel to rural areas for this project, which I’m quite excited
about.
I’m actually quite excited about this new mandate. I liked
my old one as well but forestry is one area I’m particularly interested in, and
have even taken a couple courses in forest ecosystems, so hopefully those
skills will come in useful.
However, I also don’t actually start working on the project
right away. When we get to Kathmandu tomorrow morning, we get thrown right into
three full days of orientation (jet lag should be fun!) followed by 10 days of
language training so I don’t actually start with my organization until Sept.
19. Luckily though, there is Internet at the CECI Passage House where I’ll be
staying, so I’ll keep you updated!
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