As I’ve said a couple of times in other posts, Juba, South Sudan is not a place people think or are advised of visiting. Even when I decided to move to South Sudan (in Yambio, precisely), people were worried about the safety and security (it doesn’t help at all knowing that the country is among […]
Living in Yambio, South Sudan has never been on my mind until last year in February when I got the job offer for UNMISS.
New Year 2019 is just around the corner and, as those who know me well know, I already have an almost full lineup of my 2019 travel plans (and some partly plans). Last year, in 2017, around this time I worked on my 2018 resolutions (I actually named it To do 2018) – basically a […]
Where are the most generous people? Jeanne, from South Africa who writes at Learning to Breathe Abroad, heard about Kosovo when she read at school and heard about the terrible war with Serbia on the news. She visited Kosovo in June 2018 and spent about 10 days. What did Jeanne like about Kosovo? She liked […]
It seems like I became interested to work as UN Volunteer but I can’t really remember how exactly. I love to volunteer my time, skills, and knowledge and I’ve been doing it for a long time in various settings. To this day, I don’t know what sparked my interest in becoming a UN Volunteer. I […]