Morgan Jones
- Macalester College
- Botswana, Spring 2010
Hometown: Portland, Oregon
Major: Economics major, African Studies concentration
Campus activities, involvement, or other interests: I've been doing regular volunteer work teaching English to immigrants and refugees for the past 3 years, my most recent position was working with primarily Ethiopian and Somalian immigrants. I also work closely with Habitat for Humanity doing fundraising work and volunteering on Macalester Build Days in the community and pretend to be athletic by organizing a variety of intramural teams each year.
Why I chose the Botswana program: This program seemed to be the perfect combination between doing something like a direct enroll at a foreign university and having a program that helped to facilitate and organize things for you. Being able to live in dorms with other students and have opportunities to interact with them at any point was a huge selling point for me. The combination of a couple classes at the University and a large research project that forces you to get away from the University seemed to create a good environment for meeting a very wide range of Batswana.
What I'm most excited about: Coming to Botswana, I was most excited about being able to live in what I thought would be a reasonably foreign environment. I was excited to get to know more about how both students and other people lived, looking specifically for the ways in which things in Botswana differed from things on the West Coast or in the Midwest.
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