• Foreign Visitors,  Singapore

    An intern’s experience: Hosting an ASEAN meeting

    As an intern at SCWO, my most memorable experience here was sitting in for the ASEAN Confederation of Women’s Organisation’s (ACWO) Board of Directors Meeting. I was tasked with picking up foreign ACWO Members from the airport and later on, accompanying Thailand delegates to lunch and taking down meeting minutes. It was an incredibly draining day where we had to be at the airport as early as 8 am to coordinate transportation of the delegates to their hotels then back to SCWO for the meeting. Yet, it was an ultimately rewarding experience for a history student like myself who once had to write essays on the effectiveness of ASEAN and…