2 weeks more clever, at SlovakAid

Incredibly fast end of this summer I witnessed at the Development and Humanitarian Aid Department (ORPO) at the Slovak MFA. I was going there with some degree of curiousity: on one hand I had been to the Dpt. before and I am not exadurating by calling it a very positive first impression, on the other hand comments like "Internship at the Ministry? Oh I had like 5mins. work there per day" had reached me before starting.

I came to a great team of people and got to go through Czech Aid. You know I am half Czech and thus I was pleased to be going to find out how my second half is dealing with the issue. I was however not really able to do more than reading some of the Czech Ministry website, there was a department meeting as the time of evaluating development aid projects had come. Then there was something else, ...

Did I go there to write my speech for the UN GA? Forget it for a week, this is how the aid is happening in practical terms and I was not going to miss the opportunity to watch! I listened, read, paid attention to details and asked. 2 weeks passed very quickly. I have still got now to monitor the Czech Aid, development studies abroad and to write the speech.

It seems like my TO DO list is getting longer, but hah, tonight I can cross out updating the blog. I hope you enjoy reading it.