David Knape
Profile:
Age: 25
Home Town: Jordanstown, Northern Ireland
Degree: Political Science from the University of Ulster
Previous work experience: Catering work, sports soaching, English language
teaching, activity leader, retail work.
Favourite thing about Prague: SaSaZu (the night club), and meeting
some great people
Often heard saying: ‘Ah far jaysus’
Internship positions and job
roles:
Czech Helsinki commitee – Compiling research reports on foreign media
coverage of the Czech Republic and Roma people, and comparing this with Czech
views.
Agora Ce – This NGO aims to increase tolerance and democracy by organising debates.
The main role has been proof reading, but also reasearching media
representations in Eastern Europe.
Have your expectations of the
internship met the reality?
Before I came I
didn’t really know what to expect. The experience has been satisfying though.
What are your plans for the
future?
In the short term
I plan to go and live in Spain for at least 6 months, and then would like to go
to the United States. There is a programme where I could teach politics in a
summer school and also starting sports coaching again.
I am not really
so interested in going down the business route, but to get a job in an NGO you
really need to be a specialist. Having said that a lot of the work I have done
here has been involved with research, and I guess I wouldn’t be against doing
that in the future.
What tips do you have for anyone
thinking of joining a programme here in Prague?
Ask as many
questions as possible, so you can prepare before you come. Obvuiously living in
a different country there are cultural differences. I think the attitude
towards work here in Prague is quite different from in the UK, there is less
hurry to get things done, and people are more relaxed.
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