Yukon Jay - 小祥

voy ir a la Mexico 七月我会去墨四哥

Hola amigos... voy ir a la Mexico!!! I'm not sure if I wrote that correctly, excuse me for my poor and forgotten Spanish. How cool would it be if I could update this in English, Chinese, and Espanol.

Anyways, so it looks like I am going to Mexico. It all started about 2 weeks ago. I was approached by the international co-op director, Caroline, to see if I was interested in working overseas. I said sure..... so yesterday I attended the "Looking for international work" workshop. Was told to talk to our professors, email professors and foundations in foreign countries to look for possible internships.

Right after the workshop was my tutorial class.... taughted by my TA, Bob, whose doing his Ph.D. He has years of experiences in Latin America, like Mexico, Costa Rica, etc. So I went and talked to him about possible ideas, who to talk to about working in overseas. Told him I was interested doing sustainable development in developing countries. So he said sure.... go to this and that....... He also said he is doing some work in Mexico and Cuba this summer, then China and Vietnam in November...

Then today in class as I was sitting in lecture (by the way, today was the last day of classes!!!), I thought to myself, what if I go to Mexico with Bob as a volunteer, to see if this community development was really my gig. Get the experience and see if I truely wanted to pursue this as a career...... so I asked him and he said sure. Then he asked me in Spanish to the affect of "do you understand what I'm saying?" or "do you speak this language?" If he asked me "hables espanol?" then I could understand that. Whatever he said, I replied "si..." That did the trick.... I am off to Mexico to do development work!!!!

So I will be going sometime mid or late July and returning mid August. As for co-op for the Fall...... most jobs come in at early September so I still have a chance to look for work when I return. This is assuming I don't get the Environment Canada job... which I wont know till next 2 weeks. I will be doing a lot of praying.... hoping to secure this job that way I dont have to come back in a hurry and still worry about finding work.

I spoke to my coordinator and he highly encouraged me to go.... as I will get volunteer experience and resaerch skills. He also emphasized the fact that since this is my first semester co-op, I might not find any jobs till next year..... so might as well go. That's just something I'd like to hear eh?

So lots of stuff happening from now till Mexico trip. I still have to go Taiwan and Japan for about 2 weeks.... will be going late June.

Now back to the paper..... my last obstacle before travelling.

我今天上完了暑假课。 课上完的时候我在跟我的老师谈话，我发现他要去墨四哥。 他是要去做六个星期学数研究。 我就问他我可不可以一起去，我帮他的忙。这也跟我有兴趣的工作。 主要是拿经验，跟地理系有关的。

那么我不再写了，写汉语花太多时间。 我还有个很大的报告要写呢。

舅舅，我大概是六月底回台湾。 到台湾的时候，我会跟你打个电话。

Posted by Jay at June 9, 2004 09:07 PM