I’m proud to announce that my first internship in Oceania is confirmed. Next week I’ll start and help out UNICEF New Zealand. They are based in Wellington and support UNICEF’s work, and other efforts in support of the world’s children,…
Big Fan of Ogilvy & Mather & Cape Town
On my first day in Africa, lions surrounded me. Beautiful bronze, gold and even silver coloured lions. They were eyeballing me the whole time. But they didn’t move an inch… The reason? I just started working at Ogilvy & Mather…
Confirmed: Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town
A new chapter in the story is about to unfold. In less than two weeks I will enter my 6th continent as ‘The Backpacker Intern’. And what a way to start. My first internship in Africa just got confirmed; Ogilvy…
Buena Onda at J. Walter Thompson Argentina
After working in Asia, Europe and North America for well-known agencies like DDB, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann and TBWA\Chiat\Day it was now time to add another big name AND continent to the list; J. Walter Thompson Argentina in…
1 Year The Backpacker Intern
On January the 13th of 2014 I started to travel the world as The Backpacker Intern. I had no intentions and no expectations. My first stop was Amnesty International in Bangkok. 365 days later I travelled and worked on 4…
New internship: Conquer Rio’s 3 Peaks for Street Children
Via my friend and street soccer legend Rocky Hehakaija (Favela Street Girls) I got in touch with Street Child World Cup. SCWC provides a global platform for the voices of street children to be heard so that they receive the…
2 Weeks at #LeoAdcamp Romania
About 6 months ago I received an email from Brasov, Romania. The subject was ‘Internship proposition with Vampires in Transylvania’. I didn’t care what it was; this subject was enough to make me go to Romania. As a copywriter I…
One week at DDB Californayeah!
It started with one epic Tweet by DDB California, 4 months ago. I was like: WHAT? 7 countries and 11 internships later it was time to get back to those guys. They arranged something else than an in-office bedroom because…
17 Triggers Cambodia: doing great for good
Cambodia! That’s country number three in 1,5 week. It’s a bit rougher than Thailand and Malaysia. The traffic in Phnom Penh is sort of a chaos. But it’s organized at the same time. Nobody get’s angry when they have to…