AIESEC International experience in couple words

It has been a story of discovery and learning.

It has been a discovery of new cultures.

Having lunches with Colombian, dinners with Nigerian, night tee talks with Australian, shisha with Mexican, playing pinc-pong with Hungarians, working with Norwegian and rediscovering Russians. Getting to know Indonesian, feeling so familiar with Romanian, understanding American.

Having random and miningful talks with Ugandan, getting drank with Chinese and playing with Portuguese, Missing Canadian, having fun with Indians and feeling so proud of being Ukrainian.

It has been discovery of new countries.

Relaxing Netherlands, Incredible India, Special Belgium, Sunny France, powerful Germany, Big China, Beautiful Hungary, Sweden fairy tail and different Ukraine.

It has been discovery of new feelings.

Fulfillment from small victories, excitement from surprises, happiness of seeing sun and colors, anger of never having enough time to do things, disappointment with failers and persistence in getting things done.

It has been learning of myself, my values and my path.

It has been life of thousand peaces:  productive meetings, long discussions, arguments, laughing, sleepless nights, talks, long flights, challanges,rainbow, first snow, colors, team buildings, rendom jokes, big concepts, small victories, tears of missing someone, tears of feeling proud, warm, positive, chellanging, funny, different people, people united to fulfill the promise and unleash the future.

AIESEC International is a special experience, which cannot be explained it can be only lived...

Incredible India: Except and understand

I've just finished my first trip to the land of richest and one of the oldest history and traditions, land of diversity, happiness and colors, land of being rich having nothing and being poor having everything, -

INCREDIBLE INDIA.

Except and Understand: if you want to enjoy this country, you need to spend time to learn their culture and except the way it is, so different from what you could imagine.



I love it the way it is:
I like the food, Dal, Paneer with butter Naan and all those crazy spaces which make it so delicious and special.
I like my Indian friends driving through Delhi at night on full speed of the car, listening to Punjabi radio and singing songs in Hindi
I like to have conversations till the morning, just because you have so much in common
I like watching Indian wedding and compare it to Ukrainian traditions (surprise we have more in common you could ever imagine)
I like hospitality of Indian families and I understand why people behave they way they do
I like the holly spirit of Taj Mahal and craziness of old Delhi
I like Sari and Kurta suits

See you soon, India
Next destination Mumbai in a month. 

gym assignment, hmm sounds not like me

So, apart from all crazy things I've done last week, about which I'll write soon with pictures.
Today, I subscribed to the gym, super awesome and super expensive, brand which is known in all Europe David Lloyd -  http://www.davidlloyd.nl/en/home
Coming there feels really good, all entire atmosphere seems supporting to get there every day, so let me see :)

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

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