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ok, so i had all this momentum going with posting regular blogs, then these past couple of weeks just hit me like a ton of bricks. the conference was great; it was pretty bad timing, considering all the work i had to do that weekend, but worth it because i got a break from school. at the end of the weekend my brain was completely full, and my resolve to help "save the world" renewed. oh, and not to mention the numerous additions of corporations i must now boycott (coca-cola); got to hang around some fun presbyterians, a group of whom let me crash in their hotel room (thanks maggie and claire!). hearing marian wright edelman speak was amazing-her speech was simple and to the point; there were no grandiose statements or pretentiousness that normally goes with speeches from someone of her stature.
for most of the weekend, i thought of how all of this related to anthropology. don't get me wrong, i'm really enjoying my studies so far, but at times i feel like we spend too much time discussing what it means to be a practicing anthropologist, but not a lot of time on what kinds of things we should be doing specifically.
speaking of which, the good news is i have an internship! yay!! some of you might know that i had planned on working with my advisor this summer, but that fell through. i was really starting to panic after awhile-i didn't really have a clear sense of what i wanted to do. most of the research being conducted in my areas of interest-race, the African diaspora, and missiology(study of it, not practice) were mostly academic. then i had an epiphany a couple of weeks ago. i did a presentation on an article about applied anthropologists working with sudanese refugees in nebraska, and i thought, hey! that's what i could do! i can't believe i didn't think of this before! i have experience volunteering with refugees in the past, and it fits in with my research interests. so i will be working at the presbyterian washington office researching issues facing african immigrants, and hopefully doing some ethnography. the drawback is that it's sort of up to me to develop the internship (hence the ton of bricks) on top of mid-terms...
so that has been my life so far. sorry, my camera broke so no pretty pictures to look at.