This Story's Lens:: Me - Meet a Javo ('white man')!
Alyce Kanabrocki
Hi everyone, and welcome to my website! My name is Alyce Kanabrocki, and I just wanted to give you a quick sense of through whom you will be experiencing the education system and challenges it presents to children in Ghana, particularly those living in rural areas.
I am currently a senior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in Environmental Science, with a supplemental major in Peace Studies, and am well known among my friends as the vegetarian-diedye loving-hugger :)
Through my multidisciplinary studies I have become increasingly interested in the balance of human and environmental needs, particularly when it comes to development along coast lines.
As long as I can remember, I've wanted to do the Peace Corps. My experience in Ghana this past summer has only confirmed this desire, and has made me so excited for all the adventures in my future!
After graduation, I hope to participate in the Peace Corps Master's International program, sponsored through graduate programs throughout the country. After a year of working on my masters degree (hopefully in Environmental Science and Public Affairs in Environmental Science), I will go serve through Peace Corps for 27 months during which I will conduct research for my thesis. After my service, I will return to school to finish my degree, and write my thesis. After this, I hope to find myself in a position to help the populations of the world help themselves by protecting the environment and connection to nature that is so vital to happiness.
As Gandhi said, "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." I don't expect to change the world in large ways, but I expect of myself to work as hard as I can to help myself by helping other people and this Earth.
I am currently a senior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in Environmental Science, with a supplemental major in Peace Studies, and am well known among my friends as the vegetarian-diedye loving-hugger :)
Through my multidisciplinary studies I have become increasingly interested in the balance of human and environmental needs, particularly when it comes to development along coast lines.
As long as I can remember, I've wanted to do the Peace Corps. My experience in Ghana this past summer has only confirmed this desire, and has made me so excited for all the adventures in my future!
After graduation, I hope to participate in the Peace Corps Master's International program, sponsored through graduate programs throughout the country. After a year of working on my masters degree (hopefully in Environmental Science and Public Affairs in Environmental Science), I will go serve through Peace Corps for 27 months during which I will conduct research for my thesis. After my service, I will return to school to finish my degree, and write my thesis. After this, I hope to find myself in a position to help the populations of the world help themselves by protecting the environment and connection to nature that is so vital to happiness.
As Gandhi said, "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." I don't expect to change the world in large ways, but I expect of myself to work as hard as I can to help myself by helping other people and this Earth.