Hey everyone,
I am trying to do a better job of staying connected with all my friends
and family while also attending to my own obligations so I figured a blog would
be a good answer to keep everyone updated with my activities and experiences
while I am completing my internship abroad in Paris, France.
Since I haven't gone into much detail about what it is that I will be
doing, I will explain all that here. The first 2 weeks are immersion French,
and then I will work with underprivileged children in the 18th arrondissement
in an immigrant area called Goutte d'Or. I’ll be working in an NGO in a
program that does tutoring, after school sports and other activities. Here is a
link to the site in French and if any of you use Google+ you can translate the
pages into English if I’m not mistaken.
http://www.egdo.fr/
I will be working with children and youth aged 6 to 16 with a variety
of roles and responsibilities ranging from assistance and supervision of/with
activities and schoolwork with the kids to participation and management of such
activities and sports workshops working 6-8 hrs a day. I will be more thoroughly
briefed during my formal meeting with management upon my arrival into
France. I will be in France, and hopefully around many of the other surrounding
areas, until July 27th, which means I arrive back in the States the 28th. I
leave tomorrow and arrive in De Gaulle Sunday morning. I am still not quite
sure if this means that it will be morning in France and very early here or
morning here and afternoon there. Anyhow, there will be periodic updates so
subscribe and stay posted on my Euro-ventures!
My next post will be up sometime early next week and feel free to leave
comments and suggestions on areas of my trips or work experience about which
any of you would like to see more information. Thanks!
Until next post!
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