Save your country

Everything that happened during my one-month internship in the Grameen Bank,in Dhaka, the past July 2008 is just too big to mention in one post, that is why I had dedicated a whole blog for it. But something very stranged happened yesterday night as I was skyping with my German friend in the US, who had been an intern in Bangladesh as well. As she was doing some research on the net, she fell on a post on Globespotting, a blog created by a Business Week journalist: Steve Hamm.

I had met Steve in the Grameen Bank Head Office, and we just happened to speak about the reasons that made us travel to Bangladesh and how we were feeling about this whole experience.

He asked me where I came from and what I did in life. I told him that I was lebanese, that I had changed several countries and that my stay in Bangladesh had taught me not to take things for granted, and not to take my own country for granted. I told him I was eager to go back and to enjoy it.
As we were walking out, he shook my hand and said "Save your country". His direct and straight from the heart words, had a real impact on me. When I look back at it, I feel serene because Dhaka was truly a turning point for me.

So let me go back to Steve's blog...he posted a link on July 24th, and I just read it this morning:
http://blogs.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/globespotting/archives/2008/07/travel-blogue_d_3.html

He mentions a lebanese young woman who lived in Kuwait and Paris in his last paragraph.

Thank you Steve, so much.