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Mar. 15th, 2004 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13I just had a kickass morning. I got up early and drove to campus for my meeting with Paul Stevens, an agricultural professor who is working on a partnership program for grad students at the Mongolian agricultural University.
(For those who are new to my journal, I did an internship last year where I travelled to 20 communities in rural Mongolia and studied coops and how they benefit communities. I spent four months living in Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia)
For some reason, I was nervous about this meeting, but it went well. I described my project and our findings, and Prof Stevens and I talked about the villages and details of Mongolian life and coops. Prof Stevens lamented the fact that I'm not a grad student, as he thinks I'm an excellent resource and he would love to have me involved with the project uniting the two universities. However, I'm to keep him informed of the publication of my report, and I may serve as a resource for him at a later date. He wanted to know about the cooperative situation, and how they can use coops to disseminate information to herders, and I was able to give him some of that information. So I felt very useful.
After this, I went to an interview with a treeplanting company. This company is supposed to be one of the best ones to work for in the region, and after meeting with them, I definitely want them to hire me. I've already been hired by a company called Roots, but if I can get on with Northern, I'll go with them. They help you get gear, and provide more resources for planters. Plus, one of my friends has already been hired by them and it would be great to have her in my camp. I think I came across as very intelligent in the interview, since I could ask a lot of good questions as I've already done a lot of research about treeplanting.
All in all, a great morning.
(For those who are new to my journal, I did an internship last year where I travelled to 20 communities in rural Mongolia and studied coops and how they benefit communities. I spent four months living in Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia)
For some reason, I was nervous about this meeting, but it went well. I described my project and our findings, and Prof Stevens and I talked about the villages and details of Mongolian life and coops. Prof Stevens lamented the fact that I'm not a grad student, as he thinks I'm an excellent resource and he would love to have me involved with the project uniting the two universities. However, I'm to keep him informed of the publication of my report, and I may serve as a resource for him at a later date. He wanted to know about the cooperative situation, and how they can use coops to disseminate information to herders, and I was able to give him some of that information. So I felt very useful.
After this, I went to an interview with a treeplanting company. This company is supposed to be one of the best ones to work for in the region, and after meeting with them, I definitely want them to hire me. I've already been hired by a company called Roots, but if I can get on with Northern, I'll go with them. They help you get gear, and provide more resources for planters. Plus, one of my friends has already been hired by them and it would be great to have her in my camp. I think I came across as very intelligent in the interview, since I could ask a lot of good questions as I've already done a lot of research about treeplanting.
All in all, a great morning.
