School's Out

Greetings from late spring time in Manhattan. Today it's 94 degrees but it will be back down to 70 by Friday. You might say we have fairly erratic temperature swings here. Anyway, June and July are supposed to be beautiful months, so Danie and I are excited to experience our first summer in the city. Having arrived in August last year, we just missed the myriad festivals, concerts, and events that New York plays host to each summer before the humidity of August arrives and the bourgeois accordingly depart.

I finished the Spring semester last week and it feels great to have the first year under my belt. I'm glad to have the break, but both my classes and my professors were so interesting that the semester's end also brings with it some mild sorrow. This, of course, does not detract from my exuberance at having finished all of my term papers. It's been really nice not waking up at 5:30 everyday during the last week!

I won't be taking any classes this summer but I have a full-time internship at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment. Also, I am going to be working with an NGO named Third World Network on a research project focusing on the new G20 agenda and its impact on developing countries. The details still have to be worked out but I was tentatively asked to author or co-author a formal report for the organization. I'm really excited about both opportunities, and I think they'll make for a very engaging summer.

Otherwise, I apologize for having neglected the blog during the Spring. I'm planning on being quite a bit more active on here during the summer; hopefully it will make up for the paucity of entries during the past few months. The summertime is supposed to be pretty exciting here, so I'll use the blog to keep everyone updated on all of the mischief we manage to get into. I'm also planning a series of retrospective blogs on important things that happened this Spring.

Check back soon for a post (complete with photos) on my parents visit this last weekend.

until then,
cam