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.
For my master’s thesis I am spending five months in Botswana to study male African savannah elephants, but what exactly am I looking for? and why did I choose elephant research? In this blog post, I will tell you all about it! Studying the African savannah elephant in the wild has always been a big …
Just before Christmas, I finished my first semester of my master’s in ‘Tropical Ecology and Management of Natural Resources’. The first 4.5 months of lectures and exams gave me a total of 25 credits. Even though this semester was different from a normal one in every possible way, I enjoyed it. I learned a lot …
My first semester of the Tropical Ecology master Read More »
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 …
My graduation research on trees and arthropods in South Africa Read More »
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 …
My experience as an exchange student As part of my bachelor’s, 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 …
My amazing Erasmus exchange in beautiful winter wonderland Norway Read More »
‘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 …
The ultimate goal to achieve in my nature conservation career Read More »
After I went to Madagascar and fell in love with tropical nature and its inhabitants, I decided that I wanted to study nature conservation. I found the study called Forest and Nature Conservation, at a small green university of applied science. Instantly I knew that this was the study I was going for. The reason …
Four years toward graduating with my nature-related bachelor’s study Read More »
Why am I dreaming of a life in Africa, when I have everything I could dream of here in the Netherlands or 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 …
