Exciting News!!!

On Monday, I received some exciting news - I have an internship with the United Nations!!

I applied for this about 3 weeks ago - normally you have to apply in August, but they had some spots left open, so I spent a frantic week organising references and various documents, and now it's all paid off!!

So, I will be in the Hague, in the Netherlands, from January 8th to June 29th 2007. I will be working with the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - so, basically, I will be helping to prosecute war criminals, for the genocide that occurred in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

This is a really amazing and exciting opportunity - I will be highly involved in a very practical way, helping to interview witnesses, draft documents, go to court - it will be awesome experience in how an international criminal tribunal actually works, and I will be helping to achieve something big!!

So, that's where I'll be next year, getting experience with the United Nations!! So I'm currently looking for places to live in the Hague, in between studying and socialising!!

If you want to know a little bit more about it, then click on the link to the left, called 'The ICTY' - that will take you to their webpage, I'm doing a Regular Internship. Or just e-mail me, and I'll gladly tell you all about it - I'm so excited!!!