i can´t believe this is who i work for.

despite some logistical setbacks in medellin, i am so damn lucky i found this job. the founder and director of CINDE is marta arango, and until today i didn´t realize what that meant. today i was invited to lunch at doña marta´s house (which is really close to the office) so that she could welcome me to the team. during this fated lunch (it was me, 2 post grad interns and 2 full time staffers) marta was talking about her experience in new york, where she was invited by the clinton global initiative (she met and spoke with bill...i saw the pictures) to come present CINDE and brainstorm with other prominent leaders about what can be done to improve childhood education and early human development. that immediately caught my attention. after that i began to ask questions and learned that she is an ashoka fellow and she is currently applying to become a skoll foundation recognized social entrepreneur with the help of another ashoka fellow. (i asked about the skoll foundation because my job here is fundraising and i wanted to make sure that she was aware of it before she left for kenya and indonesia for 3 weeks because the proposal is due on november 4th) after this i was completely floored. then, as if i could be even MORE blown away, she asked me if on monday i would revise her proposal seeing as it was in english! this may not seem like a big deal to a lot of you, but this is HUGE in my eyes. i get to help edit a freakin skoll foundation grant proposal and work with an esteemed ashoka fellow and trusted international figure of the clinton global initiative. THEN she agreed to have a personal date with me upon her return in november so that i can pick her brain. i didn´t even know what to do with myself.

this may be the adrenaline talking but im so damn happy i picked this traineeship. yay :)