I'm baaaaack!

Hey everyone, and welcome back from a long hiatus!

As anyone who read this blog knows, I spent last summer working with a Micro-Finance organisation in India. Overall it was a fabulous learning experience, although as this blog chronicles, the trip had its ups and downs. However, despite the culture shock and the paleness of my skin post-trip, in hindsight I am glad that I went.

Anyway, skip forward to this summer, and I have yet another awesome internship lined up, albeit under wildly different circumstances. I'll be spending the entire four months (from the 4th of May til the 29th of August) in The Hague, working for an internationally-geared NGO.

As I did last year, I won't be divulging the name of the organisation or my co-workers (those of you who know me personally know it anyway). However, I can tell you that it's a UN-affiliated NGO that works with statesless nations and peoples and attempts to ensure them adequate and fair representation within international organisations.

It's going to be quite the different internship from last year. For one, I'm going from one of the poorest areas of the world to one of the richest. Also, the detail that I'm most excited about is the level of freedom I'll have. I've organised a room for the summer, but in this case my dear landlady doesn't care what I do as long as I'm quiet and don't punch holes in the wall. Amsterdam is only an hour away, and places like Delft and Utrecht, Leiden and Rotterdam not much further. I'm also hoping to manage at least a few trips and reunions this summer, so if you're in Europe, I'd love to see you! I've been compulsively checking ryanair and the like, and with Amsterdam-London going for 130 Euros, and Amsterdam-Copen going for 810 kr, there's no excuse for some good-old-fashioned boozing and catching up.

Hope you'll all enjoy my intrepid reporting from the centre of the Netherlands!

Cheers,
Gitte