Internship at PRI?

[raquel]

Hello,

If you have done the ten-week Internship at PRI, Zaytuna Farm, I would love to know how you felt there.
Comfortable?
Productive?
Hard work and enjoyable?
Very challenging for beginners in permaculture?

Any general comments or advice about the internship would be helpful Thanks for your time!

[purplepear]

I can mostly speak for the internship at Purple Pear - it is a most rewarding thing to have the access to experienced permaculturists in practical, hands on learning in real situation with mistakes and learning happening on someone else's place before you apply it to your own.

I can only imagine the experience to be about ten fold in the presence of someone like Geoff and Nardia at the PRI

Try one here first and then move to PRI

[Fernando Pessoa]

I know quite a few of the interns from recent and past courses at PRI going back some years.The program just gets better and better with more structure such as teacher training, earth works, aid work, etc, You are exposed to a full scale working permaculture property,so the work is demanding but rewarding as every step a new learning experience awaits.Paul Taylor and other experts now teach units of the internship,the quality of that information is excellent.Comfort is a tent,if you are not comfortable in a tent,you could perhaps stay off site as there are some limited options available.The information load is large but you have more time to consolidate it than when taking a PDC.My friends and my wife included,all consider the internship as one of the most profound and defining experiences that they have had.If you are an absolute beginner it will be a challenge.PRI have an excellent and passionate chef who cooks creatively from farm produce.You are required to take part in the daily farm activity,and whilst on the property there are no drugs or drink and as it is a communal situation you will need to be considerate of the community.Many interns at PRI come from diverse ethnic and religious groups,so modesty in attire and behavior is something to consider.The short answer is yes to all your questions.
Good Luck and Best wishes
Fernando Pessoa

[raquel]

Great stuff.
Thank you both for your information.
It was the last bit of confirmation I needed - I just booked myself in for next year and really looking forward to it.

Have a good day!
Raquel

Ps: Fernando - I am reading your "Book of Disquiet" now and very much enjoying the sensitivity of it

[purplepear]

Ps: Fernando - I am reading your "Book of Disquiet" now and very much enjoying the sensitivity of it

Thank you for that raquel - you have filled a huge gap in my knowledge.

[Fernando Pessoa]

I am glad you are enjoying it,dont you just love Bernado Soares,he is a great friend of mine
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[purplepear]

I hear they are very close almost brothers

[eco4560]

Umm Fernando are you feeling OK? I just read on wiki that you died in 1935. I knew you could win literary awards posthumously but I didn't realize that you could post from the after life!

[purplepear]

Nothing had ever obliged him to do anything. He had spent his childhood alone. He never joined any group. He never pursued a course of study. He never belonged to a crowd. The circumstances of his life were marked by that strange but rather common phenomenon – perhaps, in fact, it’s true for all lives – of being tailored to the image and likeness of his instincts, which tended towards inertia and withdrawal.
Fernando Pessoa,

He was talking about BS I think and who is Bernanos brother? Why did his brother get an invite to GL's wedding? Thanks for your help Eco

[Fernando Pessoa]

Bernardo Soares, who in many ways resembles Álvaro de Campos, always appears when I'm sleepy or drowsy, so that my qualities of inhibition and rational thought are suspended; his prose is an endless reverie. He’s a semi-heteronym because his personality, although not my own, doesn’t differ from my own but is a mere mutilation of it. He’s me without my rationalism and emotions.
Best wishes Fernando Pessoa very much alive!!!!