Holiday Internship

Hey, I'm one week into holidays! Have just started a part-time internship with Engineers Without Borders, working in the education office at UQ three days a week. If anyone hasn't heard of them, they send volunteer engineers overseas to do community development work. The education office runs a bunch of programs including the EWB Challenge, a design/sustainability project for first year engineers, so over the last few days I've been sorting out resources for 2010's project on Murra Murra, a remote aboriginal community where the people have been given back a piece of their traditional land. Now they're looking at renewable energy and hoping to create an 'eco-village' that runs off solar power and EWB has stepped in to help. So in 2010, a whole heap of first year engineering students from Australia and NZ will be working on projects based in Murra Murra. It's also a bit of a competition, so the best designs are chosen and the teams present at the EWB conference in November. The overall winner gets to go to Murra Murra or wherever their project was based (ours was in Kandal Province, Cambodia). A friend of mine is going down to Melbourne with his team soon to present his project, so who knows, he could be in Cambodia soon! So yeah, it's a great project and we're all working really hard to make sure the next few years run smoothly.
Apart from the internship I've just been hanging around, ice skating, picnicing and partying (only a bit though since I'm still underage). Also planning a really big 18th birthday party :). Anyway, better go, have to start work.