so what now?

May 7th, 2008

I have now finished my kaospilot cycle… handed in the report, passed the final exam, survived my tiredness and my body simply not responding as it used to, the morning sickness and throwing up from time to time and the difficulties of transporting my ever growing belly… It was not exactly the project I am most proud of in my life, I am still asking myself… what the hell was the project about? hehe, but that is not too relevant now… now the stress is over, now is time for reflection and learning, for inspiration, for thinking about the future and for giving birth to the sea horse.

We lost the pregnancy journal thing… the paper where the doctors and midwifes write how my pregnancy has developed and the results of the exams and all that stuff… we can’t find them… have looked all over here at home, and it is nowhere to be found… smart! We can’t find a name for the baby either… so it seems there are many things we can’t find these days…

Rowan came up with some theory that says that children are souls that choose their parents they want to be born of. Dear son or daughter… WHAT WERE YOU THINKING OF?

It is a very strange feeling now, a feeling of emptiness and uncertainty… well, I suppose the feeling is not strange, maybe it is a very familiar feeling, it is certainly not the first time in my life when I complete some kind of cycle and look outside the window and ask myself WHAT NOW? What is it I am going to do now? will we stay in Denmark? Am I going to do the masters in Copenhaguen at CIID? There is this job possibility in Preston England, will I take the job if the offer it to me? What do I need to do to go to Colombia for some time? What is the best place for the seahorse to grow up? what is it I want to do? what do I want to learn more of? what would be the job of my dreams? what is the project of my dreams? who do I want to work with?

Staying in Denmark seems a bit complicated and it gives me the “repeluz” with all the visa madness and immigration rules… Rowan needs to be a normal person and have money and a 9 to 5 job to apply for my residency, and I need to have a proper job to do it myslef… and even then it is something between 3 and 7 years before I can get the residency permit… But I suppose it would be very similar anyway we go. As soon as we start researching we would find out that it is not as simple as we thought and that every place has its complications… so what are the most interesting complications I want to go through?

Bees are dying in Europe I heard in the radio this morning. There are 3 big bees in my window here, trying to get out… the window can’t be open, so it is not exactly the right place to get out, but they keep banging their heads against the glass again and again, bzzzzz plunk…. bzzzzzzzz plunk….. bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz plunk…..bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz plunk!

Maybe someone, or even the bees, when looking at me would say something similar. Why don’t you just fly to the door next to the window which is actually open and you can then fly outside of this room.

So where is the door? am I banging my head on a glass?

I love the new upgrade!

April 15th, 2008

I should be writing my report for this wierd business school called kaospilot, but instead I am upgrading my wordpress… and I don’t regret it! it is the prettiest thing I have seen since… since… well, I don’t know, it is seriously nice!

And I better get back to some writing, no more procrastination for me today!

Languages and understanding

February 25th, 2008

While trying to make sense of my final project and my life and all those things I constantly try to make sense of, I have discovered how fascinating it is to tell people about an idea, well, it doesn’t sound as exciting when I write it here, but what I mean is that everytime you tell something to a person, you slightly change the story, you think of what is relevant to this person, and what would catch their attention, and slightly modify the way you say things or what you give priority to. What I then find fascinating about this process, is that it actually helps me understand better what it is I have in my head. Well, I already knew that I make sense of things through conversation, it is just that I have had to had many conversations about a single topic than I usually have, and when I am struggling myself to understand what it is I want to do then I actually find the process very rewarding.

And writing, cause it is not just about the conversations, but actually writing an email and trying to explain what the whole thing is about, and here something interesting has happened too, the fact that I am in Denmark, studying in English, and doing a project in Colombia means that I am constantly dealing with 3 languages… so there is a lot of translation going on, and this in itself is a very interesting (though time consuming) process, because somethings sound better in one language than in other, somethings make more sense in one language than the other, or there is an expression that perfectly explains what I want to say…

This is not to say that the fact that I am dealing with 3 languages makes me understand things better, it only means I get confused in 3 different languages!

multi-language disfunctional stress disorders…

Get mail syndrome

February 25th, 2008

That is when you have extinguished all your procrastination mechanisms, read the news, see if there is something exciting in the fridge since the last time you checked, check various websites, send a text message, water the plants…

If your mail anyway has an inbuild funciton to download your mail every now and then, why then do you have to keep clicking that stupid GET MAIL button?

Lidiando conmigo

February 18th, 2008

La semana pasada fue un poco dificil de manejar… mejor dicho, yo fui un poco dificil de manejar, no la semana. Con esto de la incertidumbre del trabajo final y de todas las otras cosas de la vida me empiezo a sentir fuera de lugar y a dudar de mis capacidades y a sentirme vulnerable y con miedo de no saber que hacer y bueno, bloqueada totalmente. Y sentirse bloqueada no es lo que más me ayuda en este momento para avanzar en mi proyecto final de la escuela ni para nada en absoluto.

Es increible cómo caigo tan facilmente en la comparación con otras personas, cómo pienso que los demás si tienen buenas ideas, si saben que es lo que tienen que hacer, si tienen un buen proyecto, si pueden hacer algo bueno… y me encierro tanto en mis inseguridades que me da hasta miedo hablar con la gente! Nisiquiera disfruto una conversación con otras personas que puede enriquecerme y sacarme del atolladero porque estoy usando tanta energia comparandome y sintiendome menos que los demás.

Porqué?

La gente en general se siente asi? Piensa que es mejor no contribuir porque no tienen suficiente que ofrecer? Piensan que es mejor no hacer algo por miedo al fracaso? Nunca llegan a desarrollar una idea porque tienen miedo siquiera de contarla a los demás?

En Boston, un señor que entrevistamos como parte de la experiencia laboral de Rowan dijo algo que me parece muy válido. Dijo que el lo que había hecho en la vida era identificar que era lo que queria aprender, y a partir de eso se inventaba alguna forma de investigar esos temas, trabajar con ellos, invitar a otros, hacer consultoria, y de esa manera ganar plata y hacer de sus intereses su trabajo. Entonces la cuestión es que aveces lo más importante no es necesariamente lo que uno sabe o lo que uno puede, sino cual es su motivación, que lo mueve o lo inspira a uno…

A veces pienso que las personas que llegan finalmente a hacer algo, a generar un cambio no necesariamente son quienes estan mejor preparadas, sino quienes no estan apendejadas por el miedo y tienen la capacidad de inspirar a otros y rodearse de personas que los complementan.

Tal vez las personas nos movemos en dos tipos de situaciones que generan energia. Una es el de sentir que uno ha logrado una cierta maestria en algun area, que uno sabe hacer algo, que se puede desempeñar profesionalmente en algo, que puede enseñar algo. Y eso genera autoestima y genera seguridad en uno mismo. Y la otra energia es la de querer investigar algo, querer aprender, querer saber más acerca de algo.

Por lo menos yo siento que debo aprender a encontrar un balance entre esas dos energias, y usarlas a mi favor, que no se revelen en mi contra.

Que quiero aprender con mi proyecto final? Cuales son mis objetivos de aprendizaje?
Quiero tener experiencia en establecer un equipo de trabajo, desarrollar una idea, y plantear un proyecto. Quiero saber más acerca del emprendiemiento en Colombia, quiero aprender más acerca de el emprendimiento social en general, del liderazgo, de la educación. Quiero saber si es posible trabajar desde la educación no formal para fomentar el emprendimiento social. Quiero trabajar en algo que tenga algún impacto positivo en otras personas, mi interes en la vida no es ganar plata, quiero tener la oportunidad de trabajar con gente motivada por buscar alternativas positivas en pro de un futuro mejor.

Si este trabajo final es una oportunidad para explorar algunos de esos objetivos, cómo es que no lo disfruto en lugar de amargarme?

Es bien dificil organizar mi propio tiempo y sentir que no se cual es el paso a seguir y que es lo correcto. Con quien debo hablar, a quien le debo escribir, cómo me debo expresar, que debo explicar, cómo uso mi tiempo de la mejor manera, cómo mantenerme motivada, cómo perder el miedo a compartir ideas con otros, cómo atreverme a preguntar, cómo atreverme a pedir ayuda? Cómo mantener la calma y estar animada y cuidarme a mi y al guambito que esta en la panza?

Por ahora intento disfrutar de lo que tengo y trato de no hacerme la vida tan dificil. Montar bicicleta, salir a caminar, hacer mi comidita, cantarle a la panza, leer… afortunadamente tampoco necesito de mucho para sentirme contenta. Aprender a ser feliz con cosas simples es tal vez la cosa más importante que he aprendido en la vida. Ya ven, algo aprendo… tan burra tampoco soy.

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