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Posted by: Hannah Howard, Posted on: 31 January 2012 - Categories: Asia, International Citizen Service

We spent the first 11 days of our trip to Bangladesh in the capital city of Dhaka which, though dusty and busy, is full of wonderful bright colours. After a day of rest at the guesthouse and a long journey …

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Arriving in the Land of the Upright Men

Posted by: Harriet Macdonald-Walker, Posted on: 30 January 2012 - Categories: Africa, International Citizen Service

The last few days have been a blur of excitement, and I apologise now if this inhibits my ability to write coherently. After travelling for 12 hours with my new housemates for the next three months, I arrived in the …

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Welcome to 2004

Posted by: Roz McGregor, International Citizen Service volunteer, Posted on: 26 January 2012 - Categories: Africa, International Citizen Service

I'm a time-traveller. It is currently 2004 here in Ethiopia, as they use their own unique calendar. This is just one of a wealth of facts that have emerged during my first two weeks in this fascinatingly different community. The …

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Embracing the culture

Posted by: Matt Gluyas, Posted on: 24 January 2012 - Categories: International Citizen Service, Nepal

Not much has happened in my placement this week. Unfortunately the school has closed for two weeks due to the cold weather, which in my opinion is still much warmer than England's winter. I feel fairly lucky to have been …

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First impressions and Spanish lessons

Posted by: Stephanie Criddle, Posted on: 21 January 2012 - Categories: International Citizen Service

We arrived in Peru after a 3am start and over 16 hours of travelling; tired, but ready to begin our ICS journey. We have now just finished ten days of orientation where we have been staying at a retreat for …

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Back to school in Nepal

Posted by: Matt Gluyas, Posted on: 18 January 2012 - Categories: International Citizen Service, Nepal

After spending two nights in Butwal, we were taken to our allocated communities on the 1st January - quite literally a new start to the year. In my community - Manpakadi - I was pleasantly surprised to find that many …

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From training to work

Posted by: Matt Gluyas, Posted on: 12 January 2012 - Categories: Asia, International Citizen Service

The last three weeks of training in Nepal has absolutely flown by. I've learnt so much and got to know everybody really well in a short space of time; it's a shame that I'm not going to be working with them during …

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How much do we know about the real Ethiopia?

Posted by: Roz McGregor, International Citizen Service volunteer, Posted on: 10 January 2012 - Categories: Africa, International Citizen Service

"What's an Ethiopian?" cried a 14-year-old girl during a boisterous lunch break at my Surrey school. I remember it well: my friends and I ridiculed her, yet, at that stage, none of us knew much about what being an Ethiopian …

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Destination: India

Posted by: Fiona Lamont, Posted on: 6 January 2012 - Categories: Asia, International Citizen Service

I will not change the world, I will not save a life and I will almost definitely get Delhi Belly... several times. These are the first three things I learned whilst on my ICS training weekend. Not the most inspiring …

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Countdown to take-off

Posted by: Sabrina Parmar, Posted on: 6 January 2012 - Categories: International Citizen Service

It was in early 2011 that I found out about International Citizen Service and learned about the different organisations it works with such as youth-led agency Restless Development. I was most intrigued by this agency as their motive to empower …

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