Even though my day may be busy with tasks, all interns have projects to complete during their stay here at CCF. In the beginning, the projects are mostly to help the staff members, and depending on how well you complete it, you may end up with a really cool project. Thus, you just have to push through the number punching and the fact checking. The reason why interns here have projects is because it allows the organization to get a new stream of ideas from the nex...

Welcome! You have just become a CCF intern. Would you like to know what your day looks like? Well, you are one of nine interns, and a few interns will be leaving in about two days. We will come to that problem later though… Congrats on becoming one in a few! You wake up, tie up your mosquito net, get dressed, brush your teeth, and take a 5-minute shower because you are in a desert, after-all. You cannot utilize too much water because yo...

I understood from the beginning that my international experience was not going to be like most. I was not traveling so far simply to take classes at another university, and yet I am learning so much. I was told that I would not be able to see Namibian culture because of how far in the Bush I am, but I see it. I am in Namibian culture, and at the same time, I am in a world where people (not only Namibians) are trying to discover another culture or run ...

Nowadays, I am kept very busy. It does not help that the owner/founder of the organization caught me coloring twice on my second day of work… so now she likes to keep me busy, and I have done the same. I have learned everyone's name very quickly because of how often I talk with everyone to either assist my help or try to get to know them better. Things are never boring around here, especially with the drama. It is quite funny the first cultural difference we ha...

You never realize just how big the world is until you step off of the airplane and go from a place that had a foot or so of snow and landed somewhere that is a dry heat. When I say heat, I mean 90 to 100 degree weather where it was a struggle to walk from the plane to the airport terminal because it was hard to breathe. I made it though! The people in the airport were very nice. I was a bit confused about paperwork, but the women who was helping me talked to me a...