At the conference room

August 16, 2011

Journal Entry

          Today, I was given a chance to be at the meeting of some dignified government officials such as chief or head of DOJ, PDEA, PNP, etc. I forgot the others. The agenda of the meeting is about the preparation of our office meeting the Mexican Embassy regarding drug trafficking.

          The meeting took two to three hours. It is not so long compared to other meetings that they had. Everyone speaks English but later on they started to speak Filipino. Actually, not everyone was talking; most of them were quiet and didn’t even talk. I think there were 13 of them at the meeting but only two or three people were the ones who were talking. On that scenario, we can notice who was the outstanding among them – who is the leader among them. Looking at them, it is obvious who were the ones being listened to.

          I myself didn’t do much at the meeting. I was just assigned to stay in and let the attendance sheet to be assigned by the attendees. They let us to be in the meeting so that we could have an exposure, our bosses said. Well, that is nice about our office and being a trainee of DFA.

          While the meeting was ongoing, the miryenda such as sandwich and Delmonte Pomelo juice was being served (One of the reasons why we like attending meetings at DFA). After the meeting, I logged out at 12: 29 pm.