{"id":698,"date":"2020-03-15T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2020-03-15T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T14:24:17","slug":"mixed-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/2020\/03\/15\/mixed-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Winslow<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have learned a great deal about social finance, but also about global connections. As we continue to follow the ever gloomier news, I can\u2019t help but feel that the world is a very small place full of many people trying to improve our situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By mid-March I would be in Manaus, a city in north-western Brazil, learning about the Amazon rainforest and reflecting on several very busy days in Rio de Janeiro. I would have already given a presentation to our client on our research project at their offices in Rio, and I would be preparing to fly home to Massachusetts. These were my expectations several weeks ago, and it has been a very different experience, filled with very unexpected learning opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being in Manaus, I am still in Massachusetts and never left. Instead of a busy week in Rio, I have had a very quiet week of vacation from work with time to reflect. Public health concerns around coronavirus prevented our international trip, and have caused much greater turmoil for many others. I find myself left with conflicted feelings about the whole experience. There is definite disappointment over missed opportunities, but it is mixed with some very real relief that I am not following the current news cycle from an unfamiliar hotel room in a foreign country. That feeling has in turn left with me with some guilt for feeling so relieved. There is some sense that I should feel more indignation over this canceled trip, but instead I just feel grateful that everyone involved has made the decisions possible for public health and safety.<\/p>\n<p>We recently presented our preliminary project findings to our client in Brazil on a video conference call, and received very helpful feedback for our final deliverables. I was lucky to be part of a great group for this consulting project, and to have a very knowledgeable and patient client to work for. I have learned a great deal about social finance, but also about global connections. As we continue to follow the ever gloomier news, I can\u2019t help but feel that the world is a very small place full of many people trying to improve our situation. I hope to someday travel to Brazil, meet our client in person, and get the opportunities to explore Rio, Manaus, and the Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Winslow I have learned a great deal about social finance, but also about global connections. As we continue to follow the ever gloomier news, I can\u2019t help but feel that the world is a very small place full of many people trying to improve our situation. By mid-March I would be in Manaus, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12084,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/socialimpactblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}