life is beautiful

I am looking at the world through special shades – everything seems to be beautiful, sunny and happy. Despite my piling work load my feeling of desperation has changed into optimisms.

This morning I finally got some good news – I had an internship for next autumn. And I don’t only have an internship I have THE internship. My special interest is the role of refugees in post-conflict economic development. This might be because when I was still a kid I wanted to become a doctor and work on refugee camps (yes I know, I was already weird as a child), or who knows. At any rate this does not quite fit the mainstream idea of fashionable field of research and hence it proved out to be quite difficult to find anything. So, just when I was ready to give up I was told I will be sent to Sierra Leone to work in a refugee reintegration programme.

I was ecstatic – this was amazing. But this was not all. Prior to be sent on to the field I will work in the main office for two months. And the main office is in Helsinki. So not only do I have a research project and an internship but I will also have the opportunity to go to Finland – during the summer. What could be better?