Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Nicaragua in the Summer anyone?

Here is a letter I received today!!
Dear Devon,

Congratulations! You have been selected to participate in the University of San Francisco/Foundation for Sustainable Development Summer Service Learning in Nicaragua program. We are looking forward to working with you!

We will be sending you more information in the coming weeks, but for now we need to confirm your interest in participating. So that you can make your decision with full information, please review the next paragraph which goes over some crucial dates and requirements.

The program will run from May 19 to August 8, 2008. It will start with an intensive, team-taught, week-long seminar on campus focusing on issues of sustainable development in Nicaragua. You will then spend nine weeks in Nicaragua, working with a community organization as arranged by our partners, the Foundation for Sustainable Development. Finally, you'll return for a final week-long seminar to debrief and outline your final papers for the course, which, if completed successfully, carries two units of service-learning/elective credit at USF.

After you confirm, you will be contacted about the next steps in the process, including the phone interview with Nicaraguan partners, and a campus meeting with the other participants and the SF-based Foundation for Sustainable Development staff.

There was some other non important info....but I am super excited and really have wanted to do international work so this is a great opportunity! Now I just have to do some more research on the country. It is perfect too, because there are two women at Polaris who have worked in Nicaragua and speak Spanish. One gave me a book yesterday about the country called "The Country Under My Skin" by Gioconda Belli! It is amazing how things work out and now I am just waiting to hear from the Office of Residence Life to see if I will be an RA next year for Erasmus!!!

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