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Working for Tevel b’Tzedek
allowed me to experience community development and cultural immersion the way I
had planned on experiencing in the Peace Corps. As I explored options of how I
wanted to turn these experiences into a career I looked to graduate school for
the answers. A masters program in International Development at Concordia
University jumped out at me and is where I decided to find the answers to the
never ending question: What do I want to do with my life?
Over the next two years I will spend
one year in Portland, OR and one year abroad with my first and last semester in
the states, my second semester in Thailand and my third in Ecuador. As I write
this post I have already completed my first semester in Portland and am in the
middle of my semester in
Thailand. 
Being
abroad as a graduate student has been quite an adjustment in comparison to the
type of traveling I have done the last 3 years. While in the Peace Corps and
with Tevel b’Tzedek I was meant to integrate into the culture and be apart of
the community, as a student in Thailand I am not having the same cultural
exchange. For the time I am here I will live with westerners, have classes with
westerners, and for the most part socialize with westerners. The only
significant access I have to local Thai’s will be through my internship at Our
Choice.
Our Choice is an organization that
offers services to the HIV/Aids population in Thailand. There are attempting to
put into motion several programs and initiatives but unfortunately have run out
of funds. Therefore as their intern, my focus thus far has been on fundraising.
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