Just had my last piece of fresh pineapple on a beautiful morning in Kampala. These last 3 weeks have been incredible. A lot of hard work, but a lot of good work. They've asked me a few times if I will consider joining their team after I graduate, and I think I'm going to do it. First I just have to write the PhD (ha!), but I think it will be easier now I know I'm don't have to treat it as an entry into academia. I've really been enjoying this work more than the teaching/research, and I think I'll do better in the outside world. Also, really nice to think I'll have a decent job waiting for me on the other side.. I feel like this is the year a lot of things are going to change.
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This afternoon I fly to India, finally. It's been almost ten years since I was there, and it's so amazing to think that is how I started on this journey. I remember volunteering in that little NGO after living out of a backpack for months. I kept meeting all these people who worked with them - funders, academics, UN agencies - and thinking, 'oh wait. I can actually do this as a job? People get PAID to travel?' and then talking to a few people and realizing I'd have to get a masters degree... and 9 years later, here I am.
Pretty lucky. I can't remember how to link... but snapshot from 2003:
http://narcissa.diaryland.com/031013_86.html
10:19 a.m. - 2014-02-16
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