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August 25th, 2010 - 7:14 am § in Costa Rica, Culture, In the Field, Tips & Resources

Lessons of Working in Another Culture

Long-term international development work is a unique experience. It’s quite different than just moving to a new city in your own culture to start a job. Not only do you know no one, but you also don’t know the culture and how they work. Can they work as a team? Can they not? Are they effici[...]

May 4th, 2010 - 10:57 am § in Culture, Day in the Life, Guatemala, In the Field

The Tourist Trail Meets the Conflict Trail

Antigua, Guatemala boasts: three stores selling bagels, a frozen yogurt parlor, a McDonald’s with a flowering courtyard and views of a volcano, and a former percussionist of the Buena Vista Social Club crooning into Wednesday night air. What Antigua, Guatemala lacks: immediately accessible man[...]

April 27th, 2010 - 11:21 am § in Colombia, In the Field, Volunteer

“When are you coming back?”

To go away is to die a little, it is to die to that which one loves. Everywhere and always, one leaves behind a part of oneself.  – Edmund Haraucourt Field work requires comfort with transience. Many development workers parachute into places, build their lives from scratch, weave themselves i[...]





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