My name is Claire Lucia Grant, I am 21 years old and I am from Glasgow. I have Italian family, so from a young age I was always interested in languages. I completed an MA (Hons) in Languages: Interpreting and Translating at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and spent my year abroad studying in Tours, France, and Granada, and I graduated in June 2011. Every year, Heriot-Watt University chooses a language student to be the recipient of the Fiona Watson Memorial Award, so from late September until December this year, I will be interning with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN. Here's my blog about my experiences...
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New York, it’s been a pleasure!
Thursday, 01 December 2011As I approach the last stage of my internship with the UN and my final few weeks in New York City, I have been trying to establish some good contacts and gain valuable career advice for the future. While the work I have been doing for the Peacekeeping department of the UN has certainly been interesting, the most useful lessons I have learned have definitely come from having an insight into the UN as a whole, the inspirational people I have met and the exciting experience of living in the wonderful city that is New York.
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My first week as a UN intern
Tuesday, 04 October 2011So, my “holiday” in New York had to end sometime! On Monday I started work at the Policy and Best Practices Section of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN. Getting the subway and walking to work that bright, sunny day, passing the Empire State Building and 5th Avenue, was a feeling I’ll never, ever forget.Tags
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Life in New York City
Wednesday, 26 October 2011Time is flying by so quickly in New York and I have now been here for over 5 weeks and I’m almost halfway-through my internship with the UN. My department are giving me lots of interesting work to do and after expressing an interest in translation projects, I’m getting to use my language skills a lot which is great.
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Greetings from the Big Apple!
Tuesday, 27 September 2011This is my first blog post as Third Year Abroad's Mole at the UN in New York, how exciting! Let me start by explaining how I got here... I graduated from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh back in June this year and was awarded a prize called the Fiona Watson Memorial Award. This award is basically a scholarship which sends a student to do an internship with the UN in New York for 3 months in memory of Fiona Watson who was a Heriot-Watt student who worked at the UN until she was tragically killed in 2003. Like many of you reading this blog, I studied languages at uni and spent a wonderful year abroad in Tours, France and Granada, Spain.
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