Holiday of my soul
First of all my best congratulation to Peep, my best Estonian friend: Peep has been selected as MC VP ER in the United Arab Emirates for the next year and will soon leave for a long year
Experience in Dubai!
Peep has been a dear friend of mine since my first days in Estonia and my impact and experience with the team and local cultural would have been far more challenging without him: thanks Peep!
Now I wish you a depressing cultural shock :) which will eventually turn into the experience of your life!
It?s strange that in this blog I haven't mentioned yet about my own next international experience: already a month ago I have been selected as Team Leader in the Congress Committee of IC 2005, which means I'm going to spend 2 months of intensive team experience in India. I must say I'm really excited about this new adventure coming up for both all I heard about India and for the honour of working in a multicultural and challenging environment set for an unforgettable conference whatever the final result will be!
Friday I enjoyed a quite and good barbeque night in Kristi Hurry's with trainees and AIESECers... Saturday, after a trip to Kopli with Eoin and his Irish guests (nicer more for the throwing stones games than for what we were expected to see) I went out with Peep and other people: I think really nice is this small bar we entered for a few minutes: Valli bar famous for a small strong drink they serve (and that we had) and for the nice music an old Estonian man can play with his accordion... The owner of the bar seems a bit particular: he doesn't like foreigners too much, especially British... and he didn't allow us to take pictures... weird... but still a nice place to jump in!
On Sunday I had my last mentoring meeting with Helena. Months ago she asked me to become her mentor and I'm really glad I accepted... this experience has been really good for me and hopefully for her too... We both had our learning points and maybe we are now a bit more goal oriented people who hopefully don't forget to enjoy the present!! Helena too is about to live her first international experiences (CEED in German and traineeship)... my dear Monnalisa :) give your smile to the world!.. By the way: Helena and I will try to maintain our mentoring relation on virtual platform.
Other than that, my weekend has been mainly marked by my packing: it's unbelievable how many things I have and how difficult is to get rid of certain stuff... sometime I'm too sentimental toward meaningless things... or maybe they are not that meaningless!! Anyway, hopefully on Tuesday I'll be able to send all my stuff (2 big bags and a smaller one... so far!) back home and being left with only an easy baggage for my trip.
It's confusing; it's kind of a soul trip, the holiday of my soul: soon I'll leave Estonia where I spent a year of my life... I'll head home, Sicily, which means family and friends for a ten days reintegration and new "see you later" ...meanwhile it's time to get ready for India and continuing searching for a traineeship for my post India... And, last but not least, I'm happy to feel it like a holiday that speaks Russian... and... I like it!
Oookk... it's time to go for my last MC feedbacks night... working and personal feedbacks: next time you may finally read something interesting about me ;)
Experience in Dubai!
Peep has been a dear friend of mine since my first days in Estonia and my impact and experience with the team and local cultural would have been far more challenging without him: thanks Peep!
Now I wish you a depressing cultural shock :) which will eventually turn into the experience of your life!
It?s strange that in this blog I haven't mentioned yet about my own next international experience: already a month ago I have been selected as Team Leader in the Congress Committee of IC 2005, which means I'm going to spend 2 months of intensive team experience in India. I must say I'm really excited about this new adventure coming up for both all I heard about India and for the honour of working in a multicultural and challenging environment set for an unforgettable conference whatever the final result will be!
Friday I enjoyed a quite and good barbeque night in Kristi Hurry's with trainees and AIESECers... Saturday, after a trip to Kopli with Eoin and his Irish guests (nicer more for the throwing stones games than for what we were expected to see) I went out with Peep and other people: I think really nice is this small bar we entered for a few minutes: Valli bar famous for a small strong drink they serve (and that we had) and for the nice music an old Estonian man can play with his accordion... The owner of the bar seems a bit particular: he doesn't like foreigners too much, especially British... and he didn't allow us to take pictures... weird... but still a nice place to jump in!
On Sunday I had my last mentoring meeting with Helena. Months ago she asked me to become her mentor and I'm really glad I accepted... this experience has been really good for me and hopefully for her too... We both had our learning points and maybe we are now a bit more goal oriented people who hopefully don't forget to enjoy the present!! Helena too is about to live her first international experiences (CEED in German and traineeship)... my dear Monnalisa :) give your smile to the world!.. By the way: Helena and I will try to maintain our mentoring relation on virtual platform.
Other than that, my weekend has been mainly marked by my packing: it's unbelievable how many things I have and how difficult is to get rid of certain stuff... sometime I'm too sentimental toward meaningless things... or maybe they are not that meaningless!! Anyway, hopefully on Tuesday I'll be able to send all my stuff (2 big bags and a smaller one... so far!) back home and being left with only an easy baggage for my trip.
It's confusing; it's kind of a soul trip, the holiday of my soul: soon I'll leave Estonia where I spent a year of my life... I'll head home, Sicily, which means family and friends for a ten days reintegration and new "see you later" ...meanwhile it's time to get ready for India and continuing searching for a traineeship for my post India... And, last but not least, I'm happy to feel it like a holiday that speaks Russian... and... I like it!
Oookk... it's time to go for my last MC feedbacks night... working and personal feedbacks: next time you may finally read something interesting about me ;)
1 Comments:
More often you write - more personal your messages become :)
Go on, hun!
By Nadiyka, At 11:50 PM
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