why I love my job
Overheard at GYPA's Student Global Ambassador Immersion, a conference for Ugandan and American youth on peacebuilding and development, in the past four days:
"I'm really glad you're all women. I'm learning that women can organize things without men."
"Finance. That's money."
"The North East States Organization has been absent from the Siwa-Nizwa conflict for the past decade because it has been brokering a peace deal between Burkistan, Murkistan, Burmurkistan, and four other countries whose names I can't recall because I haven't yet made them up."
"I'm really glad you're all women. I'm learning that women can organize things without men."
"Finance. That's money."
"The North East States Organization has been absent from the Siwa-Nizwa conflict for the past decade because it has been brokering a peace deal between Burkistan, Murkistan, Burmurkistan, and four other countries whose names I can't recall because I haven't yet made them up."