The smoothest ride

It's been two months since I've been an intern at UNHCR. To be honest, after the first two weeks of being mesmerized by the fact that I am finally living my childhood dream, entering the shiny building of United Nations, the rest was pretty... casual. I knew that I was not going to change the world or something, but copying and scanning wasn't what I dreamed about doing either. My advice to you: before dreaming about working in one place or another, be very specific of what you want to do there. Me, I thought that just entering the building of UN will open new horizons for me. Apparently, not so much. I wanted to do more, much more...

One day, when I visited the office of one of our implementing partners: Mission Armenia NGO, a very "kind" organization who works with refugees in Armenia. I was present at one of their distributions, where they were giving out all kinds of goods to refugees. One of the social workers, Mrs. T. and I started talking and I told her how much I want to do more than just office work, and we were both brainstorming about how I can help refugees, especially the youth and we came up with something that turned out to be one of the most exciting and unforgettable experiences in my life.

I was thinking about it when I was given the smoothest ride in my life back to the office.

I knew I wanted and I could contribute. Just wasn't sure exactly how...