Work Roles Sample Clauses

Work Roles. The allocation of work roles between the Banks shall be as follows: Role

Work Roles. Romantic relationships were not the only roles volunteers occupied that helped them feel transnational while they were abroad, however. Their relationships at work also helped them feel like they were embedded in their host countries. Xxxxx, who volunteered and lived with her partner, said, “Almost the only thing that we ever talked about was what was happening locally. … Almost everything related to our life, our work, and the people, um, we felt very often - we felt that we were just a little, we were too involved in it.” Xxxxx attributes this, in part, to their relative isolation, but emphasizes how important their work was to them. Xxxx also felt his connection to the host community came through his work: “The work I was doing in development, international development, and why I was there and all of these things that mean absolutely I was transnational. Because again, I still have these relationships and stuff here [in the US], so I [was] very much splitting the two.” Xxxxx stated this idea very clearly when she said, “When I was there, it was my home. I had a role to play.” For other volunteers it is not necessarily the nature of their work that helped them connect to others, but rather the ways in which they enacted their roles at work. Xxxx, who said he sometimes found it difficult to determine if he fit in with the locals or not, told a story to illustrate how towards the end he learned that his coworkers thought he was “just like one of us.” He says that one day at work several of his colleagues were setting up an activity for local children and he started to help them, even though it was not part of his specific job: I just started helping them set up, like I was helping them carry desks, you know, just helping out cause there was a lot of work to do and they needed help. So I just did that, I didn’t think twice. And one of my last days there, I was saying bye to everyone…the two ladies that were running the [activity], that’s what they brought up. They were like, ‘Do you remember the day when you were carrying desks? And you were just like one of us, weren’t you? You know, you’re not one of the stuck up foreigners that come here.’ … So that makes me feel good, but I mean again (laughs), they didn’t see the actual work I did. But if that’s, I mean that’s how you gained, I guess, their respect and inclusion was by doing things like that and helping out where they knew, they knew that wasn’t my job, and they knew I could be doing other things. … Yo...