Where the Sun Shines

Since 2003 I have worked with Canada World Youth and Change for Children in many places throughout Africa and Latin America. This website has served as a medium to share my experiences, to tell my stories from "the field". This year (2010) I will be returning to Mozambique to work as a project supervisor again with Canada World Youth.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

When it rains it pours!

It's funny as for awhile I didnt know where or what I would be doing after Eritrea, or even if I would stay longer, as in fact I was offered to stay and continue working with NUEW. While keeping my options open I applied to different jobs and even to grad school. Then this week, yesterday, I got both a contract offer with CWY(Canada World Youth) and the official acceptance letter into the grad program I applied for. Since I figured school will always be around, but good jobs are often hard to come by, I took the offer to work with Canada World Youth in the capacity of Project Supervisor. It's very exciting as it's an Tri-lateral Eco-Leadership Program, with participants from Naimbia, Mozambique and Canada. For June through to November I'll be in Revelstoke,BC and then December through March I'll be working in Naimbia. I am very excited, and happy to start my first "salary" job! I am expecting it'll be a challenging, rewarding and highly educational experience!

In the meantime, before my contract starts in June I still plan to travel to Russia to visit Vadim, but will shorten my stay as to be home, in Edmonton, 2 weeks before the contract begins!

The next few weeks are going to be fun and busy, I have a zillion and one things to do here before I leave Eritrea and then off to Russia for a quick vistit with Vadim. Over the next while I am not sure how much access I will have to the internet, so I may or may not be able to give too many updates, till I am back home.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Cyber World

Sorry, its been awhile since I last wrote an entry, but I have been very, very busy working in Cyber World, my new office. Since editing was a bit of a challenge on my laptop and using my cheap software, NUEW found me a studio in a little internet cafe downtown. So all last week that is where you could find me editing away, in the heat of the tiny cyber cafe.It's a funny little place, where I have been editing, but as of today I can say goodbye to the cafe as I have finalized and finished the NUEW TBA workshop video project, all 10 minutes of it and darn proud! Now I have one final project to finish before I leave at the end of the month, NUEW's 5 year women's empowerment plan/proposal!Yipee!

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

The time has flied by....

So its now only a matter of less than 4 weeks and I will leave Asmara, and Eritrea, and find myself in new places, like Kenya and later Russia. I can hardly believe the time has gone by so quickly. This week I gave my English students their final exam, and tommorrow we are having a graduation party at my house. The plan is to have a coffee ceremony in my living room. With my English classes over, I will devote the rest of my time to finishing the video projects I have started, and hope to get them completed before I leave. The process has been a little more challenging than I orignally anticipated, as the software I have is very simple, and the system I am using -my laptop- is a a far cry from a decent editing studio. In any case, we are using what we have and are trying to pull it altogether.
It already feels like I am leaving, as lots of friends have already left and more are due to leave soon. Gaby( or Gabri as it is in Dutch) one of my best friends here and former room-mate is leaving next week and I cant imagine Asmara or Eritrea without her. I guess its part of the nature of the place and the work where people are coming in and out of Asmara for short or longer contracts and are never here too long. My few months here in Eritrea working with the women has been great, but the time has really flied by and it seems very hard to imagine that in only a few short weeks I will be leaving the country....

Friday, April 01, 2005

Photos from Senafe