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I just started to love my job today. I knew this is somehow what I wanted to do, but since its only been a month here, I've been confused and a little freaked out about the responsibility. But today I fell in love witht he possibilities of the job.

I went to a conference about integration of multucultural youth (this is my work now - and a subject highky present in the media) and I was introduced to the finest bunch of entrepeneurs I've ever meet! It was young and enthusiastic people with the heart in the right place and with a wish to change our society and to give young people with a migrant background a future.

Oddly, I felt proud. In so many ways I have nothing to do with their achievement, but still I felt proud. And I could not really define why. I grew up not knowing their world existed, as I grew up pretty protected and without an immigrant in my classroom (except for a polish girl). At University and in my travels I took an interest in different cultures and I wanted to change they way minorities are treated in western society. But this self-rightegous idealism does not earn me the right to me proud. But read your self (if you understand norwegian) and you try not to feel proud of them:
Dilan Ayhan
Marco Elsafadi
Elyas Mohammed

I sort of realised what you could do in a job like mine; you can meet people like this and you can create a ground for them to build their ideas on, or more acuratly a place where ideas no longer are ideas but reality. I hope I will manage. And if I don't these people WILL manage.

The interesting thing though is that a bit of humanity is what I'm left with today. In my job I speak about what we can do for a specific group, but today I talked about human ideals; what makes us feel selfrespect and what makes us value ourself and our lives. These people work with a basic human principle: building selfrespect in youth who has lost that and so much more. They talk about giving young people courage and belief in themself with as simple methods as hugs, smiles