In Colombia!

Finally I`m in Colombia!
We, Arezo (my fellow youth delegate) and I arrived on monday. We were picked up at the airport by a nice lady called Olga - who works at the Colombian Red Cross. She took us to the place were we are going to live for the next days while we are in Bogota. We also met Rilito - a former youth delegate, who is now working for ICRC here in Bogota. Olga and Rilito took us out to have dinner at night. We weren`t much company though, still tired from both the trip and the last three weeks of coursing..

Tuesday we went to the headquarters of Colombian Red Cross - a really big building with all the different departments of the Red Cross. We were taken aroung to meet people from all of the different departments - they all told us what they are doing in their department. We met so many interesting and nice people, but it was a lot of information at once. And of course its also a bit difficult to adjust to hearing and speaking spanish all the time..!

Today we had a meeting with the secretary general - a really nice man! He is the first former volunteer to have the job as secretary general. He is very interested in the volunteers -and their work. And also in us and our job as youth delegates. We lefte the meeting more motivated and happy! :)
We also had a meeting with Jose Raul - the director of Red Cross Youth in Colombia, he`s our boss. Today he drew up the structure of the Red Cross youth for us, explaining how it it and who is doing what. It`s still a bit confusing for me - but I hope and believe it will be more understandable when we will be working with the Red Cross in Manizales.

That sums it all up for now - check out the photos in my norwegian blog, if you want to see some photos from Bogota! :)