year 2017
I’m a PhD student in Law at UVic. Originally from Nigeria, I’ve always lived in big and very busy cities (Lagos and Toronto) as opposed to a small and quiet city like Victoria. I am loving the mild weather in… Continue Reading →
Miraculously, the time has already arrived for me to depart to Dunedin, New Zealand. I will spend the next four months at the Zoology Department of the University of Otago, New Zealand’s oldest university. During this time, I will be… Continue Reading →
Expectations of how your trip is going to go, what you are going to do and see, and who you are going to meet is prominently influenced by your peers, family, friends, films, books, and of course social media. For… Continue Reading →
As my placement here at the Karenni Social Development Center comes to a close, I’ve taken some time to critically reflect upon the concepts of privilege and positionality. From the outset of this program, that being the CAPI internship program,… Continue Reading →
I can’t leave India without writing about family. I am not just talking about nuclear family but aunties, uncles, cousins, and those people that I never fully figured out how they were related. One of my coworkers early on starting… Continue Reading →
Through shared learnings, education in Sri Lanka has strived to develop equal opportunity. The adaptation of peace education aims to remove ethnic segregation by focusing on social cohesion. Teachers from Colombo, Sri Lanka received training on Japanese methods in primary… Continue Reading →
I would like to say that I am very grateful and thankful to the organization and all the staff of MSRI for being so hospitable to us three Canadians over the past 6 months. As foreigners, coming to a new… Continue Reading →
Here’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while; an idea that was further crystallized by a conversation I had with a colleague on our commute home one day in September. I was asked why I hadn’t posted any pictures… Continue Reading →
Time is weird concept for me when I am travelling; weeks fly by. I have been in South Africa over a month now, and I settled in quicker than anticipated. As a teaching assistant at AIMS School Enrichment Centre, my… Continue Reading →
Rasheedah White blog 3: Food, Culture, Tradition, Adaptability A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend Aunty Eiko’s International Cuisine experience. While the class and the food were amazing, the environment she created is what stood out to… Continue Reading →
