Pozor schod

So far; every time I went to the airport, I was always attracted to a place a few tram stops earlier. Of course I did not want to miss my flights, so I never actually went there. When talking about it with Robert on the way back from the business trip to Budapest, he told me that Divoka Sarka (Wild Sarka) is a big nature reserve, really worth a visit.

I tried to find out more info from the AIESECers, but it seems like this hidden treasure is even unknown to most of them. As nobody was available today, I decided to take some time alone with nature. In the pictures below you can see a little bit of what I was enjoying, but you need to go there to see what this place is really like.

I can only imagine how this place must be even nicer in summer, because now some parts appeared really deserted and dead. On the other hand that made it feel even more like desolate nature, although it takes only half an hour by tram to go there from the centre of Prague.

The past weeks have roughly had a schedule of 1/3 sleep, 1/3 InBev and 1/3 AIESEC. It is actually quite an OK work/life balance for me, as AIESEC is now back in the hobby's, relaxing and fun category.
Yesterday, my Czech home LC AIESEC CZU Prague had a meeting where they were preparing recruitment. They also heavily promoted themselves on campus, even in the toilets.




Today in InBev we had a small photo-shoot in the hallway, to prepare our appearance in the internal newsletter. Here's a sneak preview of the picture that was selected.

AIESEC Praha elected the new teamleaders for spring. The speeches in Slovak and Czech were a bit confusing but I had a nice evening anyway. Afterwards we still went to a bar with all the members and a lot of trainees.


Last Friday, I took the day off so I could join AIESEC Praha when they went to the LCC 2007 by bus. The conference weekend was fun and relaxing and at the same time also very interesting. On Friday afternoon we had discussions about international business and global warming, in the evening there were awards and the goodbye of the old Executive Board. On Saturday we had time for teambuilding with the new exchange teams. Another nice thing about this conference was a huge in-kind sponsorship from Opavia, known in Belgium as LU, which provided us with more cookies than ever :)

When finishing work on Wednesday, I suddenly noticed a familiar person leaving the DHL building. It was Jason, on his way to his fancy hotel. He was flying back from his business trip the next morning, so I felt that he first still needed to relive some of the experiences he had as a trainee in Prague. I remembered that Jenny was hosting shisha night, so I invited Jason. We had a very nice evening in U Dvou Salku, enjoying some tea and the waterpipe and just remembering stories from the past years.



This weekend was time for Big Pig, the party conference of AIESEC Brno. The idea is to kill a pig and try to eat as much of it as possible, with as many people as possible. I travelled with the members of AIESEC CZU and Grace, the newest trainee from China. The fun already started on the train, getting into the party mood and painting our faces. At the site there were games, Czech folk songs with Standa, and all kinds of different pork you can imagine. A lot of food was still left this Sunday afternoon when I returned to Prague, but we had a great time.

During this whole week, life was only getting better...

Last weekend I was very ill, so the week started at a low point. The doctor called it gastroenteritis, I called it feeling miserable in a radius of 5 meters around the toilet.

Luckily, on Tuesday I was completely recovered and that evening there were the elections of AIESEC CZU. It was cool to watch elections in Czech and realise that I could understand quite a lot. Kachne (Katerina Souckova) gave a nice speech and ended up being elected as the new LCP of AIESEC CZU 2007-2008. As we were not allowed to make a mess in the board room of the university, the traditional water was replaced with sugar, which resulted in the following nice pictures.




On Wednesday LC Praha had elections and chose Roman Bojko as their new leader for the upcoming term. I did not take my camera there, but I can tell you that in the dorms, people are allowed to make a mess, so Roman got a big shower.

On Thursday, LC Praha was visiting the MC apartment. I went to visit as well and I really enjoyed the evening. There was Mexican food, we tried different drinks, and members performed small role plays and were playing games all evening. It is amazing how many people can fit in an apartment if you just squeeze enough and use all the rooms.
One of the plays included a crucifixion scene, but we got more lucky than Madonna. It looked like nobody got upset about it and people had great fun.







Yesterday night I went to Adi's birthday party in Club N11. This is still one of my favourite places in Prague for a party. I returned home at 5h30 and I didn't set any alarm clock. I woke up at 14h15 today and I feel just great...

See you soon!