Your final reflections are so grounding, I love how engaged you were in the work, and it's been fun reading your posts throughout! President Upreti sounds like a wonderful individual!

Your focus on "community psychology" sounds really interesting. I would be eager to learn more! Also, motorcycle to work?! That is super cool...we need videos (if it is safe)! 

I love your reflection and transparency in the challenges we are facing--I think we can all learn from this. Pretty picture also :)

We learned a bit about the IRB forms during our first Laidlaw summer, and how you can go about ethnography and interviews. Definitely a good skill that you're learning :) Sounds like an interesting topic!

So many books! The countryside pictures are so beautiful too! 

Love the honesty here, and big kudos to you for sharing such thorough feedback. That “West meets East” comment does sound a bit out of place and definitely feels Eurocentric. It's great that you're seeing both the challenges and the behind-the-scenes of these spaces. I agree; it’s so helpful to engage with public spaces from a first and third-party perspective and think about how they can be improved. I’ve been trying to do the same during the short time in England as well.

Sounds like such meaningful work, Gersely! It’s amazing that you’re continuing to support the community you researched last summer in a 1-1 setting. Project Rousseau’s mission and your role there seem like a perfect fit. Wishing you a wonderful summer!

Thank you for organizing this, Dean Lang! It was a great experience :)