My Internship Experience

Everything has its end. Though I have enjoyed my 4-week stay here with AFS Philippines, I got to go back to my real world for now - my college life in Miriam. I will never forget all the lessons I learned and the skills I have developed while I was here. This experience will definitely help me in my future career and even for my last year in college. It has opened up opportunities for me to learn more, meet new people, and be creative. I will always be truly thankful for my AFS family. 

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Though this picture is not complete (because some of them are out of town or out of the country), it still symbolizes the passion and the dedication of AFS Staff. You inspire me guys!

It was really good to see Muslim students, even from the most southern part of the country, is given the opportunity to experience what is it like to be in a different country and to share their culture and religion.

Goodluck to these young ladies who will spend their next 11 months in the US!

Visitor from the AFS Main Office

We are honored to meet Ms. Keri Dooley, Chief Government Relations and Sponsored Programs Officer of AFS USA. She is the one who manages all US Sponsored Programs like the YES Program. Whenever she goes to the Annual AFS Asia-Pacific General Meeting, its also predictable that she will visit AFS Philippines. She likes to have a round table discussion with YES Alumni to get to know what everyone was doing. This is also their way of knowing how much impact this project has on its alumni and their community. So far, they have seen real and wonderful changes in different countries that is why the US State Department still supports the program.

Ms. Keri said she had a great time with the YES alumni and was proud to see all the community services each of them had done all over the Philippines. It is always a wonderful experience to get to know the people behind the big programs. I find her very approachable and open to new ideas. She loves it when students/alumni speak out their minds.

She looks forward to coming back to the Philippines sometime next year. We also look forward to meeting her and presenting more awesome projects.

It is fun to be an AFSer!