Anyone mentioned work?

When you`ve managed to find your way to the office, it`s time to start working. When my colleugue and I came down here in the middle of September, we had no spesific work description, and together with our contact person we decided to spend the first month getting to know the organisation, and then create our own work description. This first month has been quite hectical, and filled with meetings with different departments, committees and other institutions. We have been introduced to the different programmes that are run by the youth department, and we have already participated in several workshops with volunteers from these programmes. It`s been an educational and useful introduction periode, and I do feel that I now have a certain overview over the Lebanese Red Cross Society, and that I`m better equipped for the continuous work. So, what exactly am I going to work with? Well, from home I am quite used to having a little finger involved in many projects at the same time, and it seems that this may be a solution also here. Hurray! No reason to break a good trend, right? Since the whole organisation at the time is in the middle of a comprehensive prosess of strategic planning, we have decided together with our supervisors to focus most of our energy on the holistic planning prosess in the youth department, instead of solely choosing one or two spesific programmes or youth centers to work with. I hope and do believe that we`ll manage to create many good things together with the volunteers on this area. This is the fifth and final year that the Lebanese and the Norwegian Red Cross is exchanging youth delegates within this programme, and it is important for all parts that our resources are being used in the most useful and sustainable way possible. Organisational development is a field that both my partner and I are experienced and interested in, so concerning work the next 8 months may very well turn out to be very exciting. I`m looking forward to it!