A better me :P

I'm home for Christmas. 25th wasn't such a great day and I was really moody all day long. I actually realised why. Because I was wasting my time. When I was in highschool, I used to love that. Even now, when I am in Cluj, I find myself wasting my time and just looking at nothing instead of studying or doing something useful. But something is different now. I'm not sure why nor how, I strted feeling miserable if I waste my time. I don't think I realized how valuable it is, but I just think that I have in my mind the fact that if I ant to reach my objective(s), I really have to stick to a pretty strict schedule. And I like doing it! That's the big change!
So, I think that doing things is the second best Christmas present I received (the best one is still Very Irresistible).

It seems a nice start towards the better me. The second step is being less selfish and it started a few days ago, but let's see how it goes tomorrow and especially the day after tomorrow.

Silvia, not so Grinch mood as yesterday :)

Ganduri

Imi trec prin cap ca nebunele. Vin, se intersecteaza, fac accidente, nasc alte ganduri. E nebunia furtunii in mine. Astept ziua de maine sa ma calmez si sa gandesc rational.

The passion

I have no idea what I will do in 20 years from now. I don't know where I will be nor with whom. But I do know one thing: I will understand passion.

I am one of the lucky ones that did something they were passionate about. I do know the feelings, the look, the motivation, the way you wake up. I have no idea if in 20 years from now I will be passionate about what I will be doing. What I do know is that I will recognize pasion around me and I will understand and respect it. A lot!

Again bullets?

Ok... So many things happened... So many things and feelings that I would love to talk about... Still, apparently anything I'm writting doeasn't sound the way it should. So I'm just going to use bullets (this comes from working with Adela):

• I was selected for IPM 2009! I'm so happy! But since it's true I don't know how to enjoy good things, I am only thinking that I have to take exams and I am more satisfied for having passed the selection procedure than for having been accepted in the team (still, I can't wait to get there and meet all my friends and all the other persons in the CC)
• I started talking again with one of my extremly dear friends and I feel so much better that now we are even and that we have the same close relation we used to have before
• Marta and Melanie left Cluj; I was sad but still very happy for having met them (can't wait to visit them in Germnay and in Poland)
• talking to my CC from Brasil! I miss them so much!
• I had a lovely breakfast with Vladutz and Mo (I realized once again how lucky I am to know people like them)
• LCC 2008 - I was secretary (I think I'm really good at it) and I had a lot of fun with Mo, I got to know some of teh new members (I feel so much better now), I was there for my friends and for the persons that had the guts to run for EB 2009/2010. I saw them when the results where announced and I was impressed with their reaction. It was so mature and all of them made me proud again. It's a bit weird because at first I didn't want to go (I'm still wandering how it would have been if I were in the EB), but I just couldn't said no when Vlad asked me to come.
• Reading old emails - I read all the old emails from Ade, Mali, Lore...
• I did receive a gift from Saint Nick! I saw it on my bed last night when I came back home. I was so surprised and happy!

You know, this week I felt appreciated!

Good news!

Dear CC in the new and expanded version!
How are you all?
Well this email is a short-long informative one but also a HUGE WELCOME TO OUR NEW ARRIVALS!!!
Everybody please give a warm round of applause... virtually J to...

Delegate Servicing Team Leader who i will gladly pass on as he knows already a nice handful of work :D
- Joao Alvares – Portugal/Brasil
And his servicing team (we will need some team servicing too guys!)
Silvia Patrascu - Romania
Sylvia Cubillo – Costa Rica
Mulugeta Kahsay- Ethiopia
Felipe Cavallini – Costa Rica

Communications Teamster
- Vladimir Vujatovic – Serbia ... who will be working with Olivera, Valerio and our MCVP Communications DORA

Finance Teamsters
- Abhimanyu Choudhary - India
- Luna Ferolla - Brasil
Who are in the GRINFIE (look it up hehehehe its italian) of Our Renata Tonioooooooolu

External Relations Teamster
- Saba Kahsay - Ethiopia
Who is joining the most male dominated but female led team for ER

Events
- Igor Isotov - Macedonia
- Sara Boni Barbosa - Brasil
Who together with Anabella will be riding the Event wave J well also propelling, organising.. logisticising all of it

Definitie

Am gasit o definitie pentru un termen care ma bazaie de foarte mult timp... pentru "acasa".

Asadar, acasa reprezinta complexul umano-spatial de care ti-e dor si care iti simte lipsa, unde te poti ascunde si de unde iti vine energia pentru a infrunta lumea de-afara.

Conform acestei definitii, acasa pentru mine e vechiul acasa, casa alor mei cu camera mea obscen de verde si cu oglinzile imense si pe peste tot. Ma duc acasa peste 2 zile! Me happy!

The journey

"The journey is the reward"... That was the motto of NaLDS.

My journey... well, it was full of discoveries... some made me very happy, some made me a bit sad, some surprised me, some didn't make me react at all. My journey is about to finish (at least the phisical one in Germany). But I have to confess that being in Germany was exactly how I dreamt it would be. It gave me the exact feelings I was looking for. And for this I still love Germany. For many others, I don't like it that much.

If I were to put in a few words what I learnt in this journey, I think those words would be: surprise, emotion, naked me, humbleness and hard work.

Maybe I will write more about these things when I will get home (I can't wait for that moment).

Oh... and something important... NaLDS didn't offer me those huge AHA moments, but if the one degree change will happen withe me, it will be due to NaLDS, due to the people I met and the conversation we had.