Last weekend, my roommate and I decided to take a trip to Copenhagen. The trip was pretty last minute, and I booked our hostel only two days before leaving. Tracy had to go to work and would not be able to leave until the evening, but I was able to leave in the morning because…
Tag: IIP Berlin
Week 7- It’s a busy life in Camelot!
Hello all! This week was the busiest week I’ve endured so far. My workload quickly soared from about 4–5 to 10–12 hours a day. NGO work is unique in that it’s very self-determined. I came up with this project idea, and it’s my responsibility to follow up on it. Accordingly, I’ve lost some of the…
Less Fluff, More Frauenkirche
Last weekend, Alina, Ethan, and I took a trip to Dresden. Our train there and back was covered under our DeutschlandTicket, so it was a pretty affordable trip. However, because we were using the DeutschlandTicket, we had to transfer trains a few times to get there. Luckily, we had an early start and arrived in…
Schönheit und Traurigkeit in Polen
[Beauty and Sadness/Mourning in Poland] In my internship contract, I was given two days off for each full working month. Now that it’s July, I’ll be leaving before the month is out, which, aside from being hard to believe, means there’s less time for potential trips across borders. Luckily for me, my boss is super…
Week 7: trying to cope with Berlin heat
This week has flown by. Every person I’ve talked to has told me how study abroad goes by really fast and to cherish the time in your host country, and they are totally right. I cannot believe that it is already week 7 and that I only have two more weeks in Berlin. I will…
Mosaics, Market Maps, and Motivation
Week 5 at Vireo in the books! Not much has changed in my work since last week. I am still working on deal flow and the green financing deep dive. I have made some serious progress in the deep dive, and the farther I go, the more interested I am in the topic. The first…
Leading and Learning in Berlin
The more I see of Berlin, the more I realize that there is still so much of this city that I have not explored. A few friends and I were able to go to the Turkish market in Neukolln last Friday, which is located southeast of Berlin’s city center. There were so many stalls, all…
Czech Republic Meetup: Family and a Quest for Ice (Week 6)
I started this week not in Berlin, but in Prague, where I reunited with my parents who had just flown in from the U.S. I arrived at 3 AM by train—exhausted but alert, mostly because I knew they would be worried. The station was nearly empty, the streets dark and quiet, and yet I felt…
Week 6- ‘Tis but a scratch
This week has been extremely busy. I am organizing the workshop this weekend for KIEZconnect. Over the past few days, I was out in Kreuzberg for over 20 hours putting up posters and marketing the workshop. I try to enjoy everything I do, but carrying around the thirty-pound bag of posters is testing me. It…
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