Everything I am doing on my road to Africa to pursue the dream of living and working in Africa. Information about my studies, internships and much more.
Just before Christmas, I finished my first semester of my master in ‘Tropical Ecology and Management of Natural Resources’. The first 4.5 months of lectures and exams giving me a total of 25 credits. Even though this semester was different than a normal one in every possible way, I enjoyed it. I learned a lot of new things, things I wouldn’t ever imagine I would …
This week I will tell you all about another step I had on my road to Africa. To finish my bachelor I had to do a graduation research, a thesis or dissertation. Different countries, different names. I wanted to find my own placement to do my research and, of course, preferably in Africa. After many many emails and a lot of time later I found …
The first half of 2019 I spend in Australia, I was here for an internship that I did for my bachelor in Tropical Forestry. I did my internship in Uganda first but decided to stop it. I will tell you more about that later. For this internship, I stayed in Cairns, Queensland for four months and in that time I was working for Cairns And …
My experience as an exchange student As part of my bachelor, I went on an Erasmus exchange to Norway. It is pretty clear by now that I like to go abroad for new adventures. So, I was looking throughout Europe for an interesting exchange program. I also looked for Erasmus exchange programs to do outside of Europe, but the costs for this were so high …
‘What do you want to be when you are old’ The question that you asked, and got asked, countless times when you were a child. And what did you answer? Teacher? Mom? Firefighter? I would have never guessed at that age I would say ‘working on nature conservation in Africa’. But yes, that is what I want to do when I am old. My goal …
Bachelor of Science in Tropical Forestry After I went to Madagascar and fell in love with the tropical nature and its inhabitants, I decided that I wanted to study nature conservation. Not any nature conservation, but focused on the tropics. I found the study ‘Forest and Nature conservation’, on a small green university of applied science, and instantly knew that this was the study I …
Why do I want to work in nature conservation? Why am I dreaming of a life in Africa, when I have everything I could dream of here in The Netherlands and in Norway? Why would I give up all the luxuries we have here in these ‘rich’ countries? Why do I want to move so far away from my family and friends? Why do I …