In 2011, I enrolled myself at Auckland University of Technology to complete a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in English + New Media and taking two minors, one being Social Sciences, the other being Creative Writing.
It is 2014 now, and the time has come for me to step it up and apply some of the stuff I have learned from my degree to the real world. In all honesty, its rather intimidating, but still exciting to begin a new challenge and put my knowledge to the test. I am now doing what is called co-operative education. Its sort of like work experience or an internship, except I have to reflect on everything that I have learned throughout the process and present it as an assignment to be able to graduate with my degree.
That is how I ended up creating this blog. It's part of a project I am working on for my current co-operative education position. I was extremely fortunate to be accepted to do my co-op internship with UNANZ (United Nations Association of New Zealand), an international organisation I am very proud to work with. I met with Graham Hassall the National President who is very wise and was open minded about my position. I am going to be posting to this blog all of what I learn about the United Nations and in particular UNANZ, and will also be attending a conference in May in Wellington on Global Governance, Global Commons, & Global Public Goods: The State of Play. I hope that this blog will be an accessible and interesting read for people of all ages, and hopefully provide some more knowledge for people of how the United Nations affects us.
I have created this blog as a way of incorporating the English + New Media side of my degree, and also incorporating the Social Sciences side of my degree with the information that I will be posting. This blog will be (hopefully) an interesting look into what UNANZ is all about. I plan to research in to what UNANZ is involved with, how it came to be, and hopefully spark some interest in the United Nations, especially with people around my age group because I believe the United Nations is a very important aspect of our worldwide interconnectedness, even for a little country like New Zealand.
Stay tuned!
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