My
name is Larissa Green and I’m a junior psychology major at the University of
Connecticut. During my stay in Cape Town I will be interning at Eros School,
where I get to work with the school psychologist and teachers to help children
with Cerebral Palsy. I’ve always gone
back and forth between deciding on whether I wanted to be a counseling
psychologist or an elementary school teacher, so I’m really looking forward to
starting my internship where I hope to develop a stronger sense of what it is
I’d like to do after graduation in 2014.
My
internship at Eros School is what I’ve truly been looking forward to the most
since ending classes on the Storrs campus, but I’ve found myself completely
swept away in all of the activities we’ve gotten to do before our internships
as well. From being inches away from
hundreds of penguins on a beach, to walking up Cape Point for the most
fantastic view I’ve ever seen, I can already say this has been the trip of a
lifetime.
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| Larissa at Moyo at Spiers |
I
don’t think anybody likes looking the tourist; backpack, water bottle, camera,
sneakers, might as well throw in a fanny pack to complete the obvious look. But for now, before we begin our internships,
tourists are what we are and it is amazing, every minute of it. We’ve all come to find that there is nothing
wrong with being the tourist; it is totally to fine to want nothing more than
to engulf yourself in this new exciting culture and take it all in while you
can.
I
find myself constantly in awe of the new things we are seeing. Each time I think I couldn’t possibly see
anything more beautiful, I am proven wrong when I see that I have a daily view
of Table Mountain, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Whenever I think I know all about Rondebosch,
the town we are living in, I am proven wrong by discovering that unlike in NYC
where you yell for a taxi, here they yell after you. Each time I think I can’t possibly try any
more new things, I prove myself wrong again by trying an Ostrich burger. And each time I think to myself that I
couldn’t love this breathtaking city anymore than I already do, I am proven
wrong by witnessing the overwhelming amount of kindness the Capetonian people
exemplify.
For
the first time in my life I can honestly say that I look forward to being wrong
many more times in the next few months!
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