truly a nomad

It is a pretty long, complicated and boring story, but main point is that I couldn't get the work permit that UBS expected (mainly because authorities didn't understand my university's term for "deferring studies") and so that would mean that my internship would be "counted" in a different way internally if I was able to get a different type of work permit. So yep...no diversity traineeship for me at UBS :-(

It is disappointing to me that government and corporate bureaucracies prevent people and organisations exploring their potential, especially when we are talking about diversity, but I am not in a position to change these things right now, so I am looking to the future....trying to find the new door that is opening...somewhere....

One chance will be to work with Sanna from Finland in Sarajevo with the NGO called Education for Peace...such an inspiring organisation...but still waiting for the job description and selection process.

So in one week I will leave on a one-way ticket to Europe - go to London and Dublin to catch up with friends - and then have Christmas (and now New Years too!! :-) in Portugal and then....? A truly nomadic life awaits me!

We just had a wonderful "early Christmas" here with my family as I won't be in Australia on the 25th...and in some ways it made it harder to leave into this uncertainty...but in other ways it boosted my courage as I feel that with a family that loves me and whom I love so dearly, I can handle anything that comes my way!

Ho ho ho

x Zoe