Week 6:
Expectations
December 1, 2019 | Hey everyone! Welcome back to the sixth installment of my blog. This week was a busy one and I’ll be sure to tell you all about it, as well as talk about some of the differences between what I expected my experience to be like and how it’s actually going. Monday was hard for me. […]
Week 5:
Teaching and Celebrations
December 1, 2019 | After my encounter with the stomach flu or food poisoning (the jury is still out on the cause), I settled back into a less dramatic week at school. Each day I am in a new classroom, rotating between the four teachers of the Rimu team throughout the week so that I can see more […]
Week 5:
Intergenerational Pilot Program
November 27, 2019 | One of the meetings I attended the first week of my internship was about the implementation of a new intergenerational pilot program at the Frye. A small team of people working within the realms of art, education, aging and administration came together to construct a program that would be geared towards kids aged 3 to […]
Week 5:
Home
November 24, 2019 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the 5th installment of my blog! This week, I’ll tell you all about what I got to do as well as talk a little about missing home. This week, and for the next three weeks, we have daily inter-class sports championships. This means that we have to block out 2 […]
Week 4:
Rugby and Festivals
November 24, 2019 | Over the past couple of weeks, I feel like I have really settled into the area of Auckland and the culture of New Zealand. While I am still hesitant to drive on the other side of the road, I have noticed that I’ve picked up on some language patterns of the people around me, such […]
Week 4:
Looking and Seeing
November 24, 2019 | Every Wednesday for the rest of my internship I will be participating in the here:now class at the Frye. I have discussed here:now gallery tours in a previous blog post, but the here:now class is a bit more extensive. This six-week class offers conversation-based gallery tours and studio art-making experiences for adults with dementia and […]
Week 3:
Elderwise Outreach Programming
November 17, 2019 | It was a busy third week over here at the Frye. My time as an intern was filled with everything from meetings to cutting up apples and making coffee. Thanks to a connection made by my direct supervisor, I was also able to aid in programming put on by Elderwise. Elderwise is a wonderful organization […]
Week 4:
The Value of an Education
November 17, 2019 | Hey everyone, thanks again for reading my blog this week. I hope you are all enjoying learning about my adventures in beautiful Quito and seeing what amazing things my students are doing! This week was a busy one but it was busy in the best way possible. The students in my homeroom class (Primero Bachillerato) […]
Week 3:
Differences between New Zealand and the U.S.
November 17, 2019 | During conversations with teachers, students, and new friends over the past couple of weeks, I am constantly surprised by how much they know about America, and Wisconsin in particular. When I tell them where I’m from, many people are quick to reply with a pretty accurate description of my home state, typically saying it is […]
Week 3:
Daily Routine
November 10, 2019 | Hey everyone! I just reached the end of my third week in Ecuador and am here to tell you all about it. Over the course of this week, I finally started to settle in. My Spanish is getting better, I’m starting to get to know the students and faculty, and I have finally gotten into […]