my trip to Den Haag

Last Sunday I spend visiting the most amazing town in all Netherlands, at least from what I've seen so far, - Den Haag. 

This strange combination of narrow streets, restaurants everywhere, lots of people sitting in summer terraces, beer, wine, feeling of summer, sea, beach and many many tourists. 

After visiting this town, I really understand why Queen is living there, its kind of "Queen place".

Just look at pictures (mine will be uploaded soon):

     

During this day, I manage to spend some hours at the beach, read a book and participate in some rock festival. I' must say they know how to make festivals, people getting crazy there, all from 3 years old to 60 years old grannies, who barely can walk. At the same time, the mass and % of garbage everywhere, made me feel proud, in Ukraine at any festival I have never seen so big mass, even after Sheshory, which took 1 week.

Keep on discovering Europe, next week going for Belgium for planning week, to the smallest town in Europe.

New books to read

Yesterday, spend an amazing day in Den Haag city, however it will be other story. During my little trip I bought 2 books, which I really hope to read this month.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor – "Men Who Hate Women") is an award-winning crime novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson, the first in his "Millennium Trilogy."

At his death in November 2004 he left three unpublished novels that made up the trilogy. It became a posthumous best-seller in several European countries

This novel supplies a genealogical table for keeping track of the numerous members of the five generation Vanger family who are under investigation. "An epic tale of serial murder and corporate trickery spanning several continents, the novel takes in complicated international financial fraud and the buried evil past of a wealthy Swedish industrial family. Through its main character, it also references classic forebears of the crime thriller genre while its style mixes aspects of the sub-genres. 

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author and memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce, and what she discovered during her travels. As of February 2010, the book had remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 158 weeks.

At 32 years old, Gilbert was educated, had a home and a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night crying on her bathroom floor. She separated from her husband and initiated a divorce, which her husband contested. She entered into a relationship with another man, but this relationship did not work out either. While writing an article on yoga vacations in India, she met a seventh-generation medicine man who told her she would come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, she spent the next year traveling around the world. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (Eat). She spent four months in India, finding her spirituality (Pray). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for "balance" of the two and found love (Love

Cinema and movies

This week Rotterdam hosts Arabic movie festival, which I got a chance to visit today. Amazing atmosphere, cozy, and feels like at home in the cinema called  “Cinarama”.  The movie I got a chance to see, called “Cinecitta” or simply 7 by Ibrahim Latif, Tunisia.

Its really sincere comedy about 3 guys who wanted to make movie for the festival but didn’t get a grand, so they found other way how to get money, or simply to steel it from the bank.

Suddenly I remembered, all those great moments I’ve lived in Tunisia this February. Real Medina, small cafes, shi-sha and real mint tea, since that time everywhere I go I order mint tea, however I still didn’t find so good taste, as in Tunisia, those people really know how to make it special.

The other movie, I’ve got a chance to see last Saturday, “Mao’s Last dancer”, made me willing to visit China some days, at least to see how much this country has changed since Mao time. On the back of the movie shows quite good emotions, feelings and real life of Chinese people with all their fears, happiness, every day problems and all this combine with the main line of the movie of a guy who became professional ballet dancer, his love to dance, his love to parents and his love to American girl. It’s Just special, recommend to watch.

In Rotterdam, there are couple cinema places, one has discount if you buy a card for 1 month, it cost just 20 euro (price for 1 ticket 8,5 euro) and you can go as many times as you want, however movies there totally “popsa” stile, which I like but not more then couple per month. At the same time there is other cinema, which usually shows not that popular movies, but with the deep sense and big picture, but they don’t have any discount, trying to figure out how find something between.

Happy watching movies you like 

a bit of pictures from my new experience

Leaving Diversity

Management Team of AI 10-11

AIESEC International 10-11

and... my super and the best AIESEC Experience Team

Canoeing on Saturday

So, this weekend I did canoeing, with my new team, which was fun from the beginning of the story. 

Firstly we got there after an epic party last night, with some of us, for example me, took to seriously, so I just back home at 6 a.m. and had to be ready at 10 in the morning, which obviously didn't happen, and Hugo spend a couple of minutes near my door, trying to wake me up. 

The next challenge, was actually to survive to the place of interaction, with massive hangover.

And the last one, he he, to pick the "best" partner for this activity, which I also fail to make strategically, actually not me, as we were randomly picking up the names , and I got to one canoe with Camilo, which afterwords we realized it was a big mistake, as we came last one to the point, and had a lot of fun during the way for all people who were passing by :)

Thank's God, on the way back we changed the partners :) so I happily manage to get back almost the first one.

General feelings, its an amazing activity, we manage to pass 10 km, and i really thought I wouldn't be able to move my hands afterwords, but everything is really ok. Actually you can learn at least about one person in your team, having talks in the middle of the river for 1,5 hour.

I'm really looking for next weekend, and new cool things we going to make together:)

1st week of transition

We've went through AIESEC history session, which basically we had to make for our self: 7 hours, to read, explore and design a session for new members on AIESEC history, with calls to former PAIs, tons of docs, publications, pictures, ppts and videos. 

and the output, more then great, 1 h session, with 6 games and lots of lough in the office, looking at current AI team passionately trying to win from each other. 

This day brought a lot of fun in the office and 1st successfully executed task as a team, I'm getting more and more exited.

One more thing, today was the first time we set in our sub teams for 10 minutes to have a discussion, finally I saw those 4 amazing people, I'm going to work with near me, and thoughts came to my mind, Its must be an amazing year, having those guys around, and It will be in fact challenging year to lead, manage, execute, learn, perform and achieve