Bye Bye Poland!

I'm glad that I could say goodbye to the trainees in AIESEC Białystok...


Too my interesting friends from Bangladesh...


Too all my friends in Białystok.

It's time to move on now...


This might be a surprise for some of you... :) I will do one of the craziest things in my life!!! :) I'll go by hitchhicking from Białystok to Lisbon, Portugal. I'm planning to spend the Christmas and New Year's Eve with Diana. I will have about 4000 km to go... I estimated that the travel will last about 4 days... so I'll be there for Christmas.

This is the road I'll take. It's half of Europe... :) so wish me Good Luck!


Probably is the last time when I'm posting this year, so I wish you everybody Merry Christmas an a Happy New Year! The adventure continues...

LCC Wigilia -My first chairing experience!

Oh, yeah baby! :)

I'm just returned from LCC Wigilia (LCC Christmass Eve). It was my first experience as chair at a conference and I'm happy that I done well! It was motivating not only for members, but for me as well. I felt at the our Christmas Diner that I am part of a big family of almost 50 members! It's incredible to feel the Cristmas Spirit like this, surrounded by friends!


In Poland they have Christmas traditions like putting on the table under the sheet dried wheed, as a simbol of the place where Jesus was born. We ate some traditional dish, pretty similar with Romanian "sarmale" but with different taste. The highest emotions were riched when wishes time camed. Polish have a tradition of sharing each other wishes, like this: They have to split a wafer and to wish everybody for everybody something for the new year. It is very emotional, because it happened to hear so many wishes of good luck and happiness in next year for me and my girlfrined. I think I told them so many things about Diana and they understood that she is the most important thing for me now. This wishes had a stronger impact on me because there were join with tears couple of time and when tears is touching your neck you can feel that that person is REALY wanted for that words to become reality.


What can I say... it was... constructive! The premeeting, feedback during the conference, and faci meetings were very constructive! We help each other to pass over the difficult moments and at the end we couldn't believe that this conference was so... great, that together we realised something so beautifull!


Wojtek (LCP) and me. We had a very very interesting constructive co-operation and sharing! Very smart guy! I'm telling you!

I'm happy that my traineeship is ending like this, when I'm on the wave. I have to move on now, to go where I feel that I belong... I wish to could take with me some of the people I met here, I care about these guys like I care about members in AIESEC Targu Mures, they are my second local committee. I will never forget them... they will always have a place in my heart!

My workplace...

I've been telling you about Białystok, about AIESEC, but I didn't mention anything about my job.
I work for Bison-Bial S.A. , the biggest company in this region. Here are produced the lathe chucks for many machine-tools of lots of companies in the world.
http://www.bison-bial.pl/katalog/katalog.htm

My JD is to make a research for this lathe chucks on Romanian market, to find potential partners, end users for the products, competition of Bison-Bial.

Here is my workplace and the people I've been working with:

My boss, Mr Nikonowich


and my coleagues:
Stasia


Marian

Teodor

Marek and Ryszard

Ramzes

Dorota

Czarek

The trip to Białowieża Reservation...

I was so happy that one of my personal goals for this traineeship has been accomplished today!!! :) I visited the Bisons Reservation at Białowieża!

I will tell you step by step the most wonderful day spent here, in Poland.

It started as planned, my flatmate Piotr guided me, Sebastian and Maciek to the Bison's Reservation. We used his car for this, because he knew the road better, he was born in the region.

First surprise: watch carefully the photo and you will notice it!!! :))


You're right! It is a Dacia 1310 car! As soon as I saw it my smile was growing 3 times! :)

Finally we arrived at the forest where the European Bisons are living. It's a common reservation between Poland and Belarus. In fact, the bigger part is in Belarus. In the past, only the Polish King had the right to hunt the bisons. Here, on this obelisk is written that the Polish Royal Family killed in a single day 42 bisons. The queen killed the majority... what a woman!


Here is the summer residence of the Polish Royal Family.


The good thing in this aristocratic hunters was that they establish the reservation for the animals,in order to protect them from extinction.


Here is the road to the place where the biggest mammals in Europe can be seen. I was so excited! My tonus was growing... Finally we arriving and... Here they are!


Look at them! Just... look at them! They are one of the most beautiful creatures on the Earth!


Words are useless... the pictures tells you everything about these animals with their stomach having 100 litres capacity...


Did you knew that these gorgeous animals lived some time ago in Romania, in Moldova Province? But they disappeared, being hunted in excess. The Romanian Government imported several bisons from Poland. Now they are living in the Retezat Mountains in a reservation.


It was so great to see them! :)

At return, Piotr took us in a village where we could have seen Polish traditional houses and a Polish Orthodox church. In this Voievodeship about 30% of the inhabitants are Orthodox Christians.



The second shock of the day it happened when we were returning home... we were hungry and we made a stop to eat/drink a bear. What do you think was in front of us? A COMUNIST PUB!!! :)) YES! It has Lenin's head on it and it was decorated inside with red stars, comunists pictures and other old times brand elements...


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We saw it also another Palace in Białystok, which was the property of the second important family in the city, Lubomirskich Family. Now it is a private Law School.


Here is a picture of Sebastian and me in front of the Palace. Unfortunately this great guy with more than 5 years spent in AIESEC will leave Poland next week, so I think this was our last day spent together. Good Luck Sebastian!

Hm... what a day!

My place...

Let me introduce you the Ovi's Winter Residence in Poland...

My room...


I have to share my room with a polish guy, but it's ok...


Facilities:
A computer... in Marcin's room


The kitchen...


The bathroom...


And here is what I can see every morning when I'm looking on the window...


For all of this I have to pay here 50 euros. It's ok for me, I have enough money to cover my expenses for food, accommodation, transport, etc.

AIESEC Targu Mures, proud of you!

I checked my email today and surprise!
AIESEC Targu Mures received "The most progressive LC" award at NPS!!!
Wow!!!
That's a historical event for our Local Committee.
It's the first prize that our LC is gaining and it's the result of very hard word that our members had done the last year.
I'm sorry that I couldn't been there at that special moment!


Congrats Marius, Romeo, Hermina, Emese, Bori, Roxy for being a good team this year! Congrats to the supporting members: Andreea, Radu S, Radu L, Attila, and also Tibi, our LC coach.
I'm proud of you!

About Białystok

Białystok is the bigger city in Podlaskie Voivodedship. This region is located in North-Eastern Poland, near the borders with Belarus, Lithuania and Russia. Being at crossroads between different countries, here live in harmony people from different nationalities and religions: Poles, Belorussians, Lithuanians, Russians, Tatars and Jews.

I will show you the most important things that I could saw in the city:

The Branicki Palace

Branicki Palace complex is one of the best preserved aristocratic residences in Poland. Built on the 16th century, the palace owes its present form to two generations of the Branicki family. It became a center of culture, lots of artists, poets and scientists gathered around it. It hosted the first Polish Military School and now here is a Medical Academy.

It is partly open to the visitors, in the back it has a beautiful garden.

The Red Church

This cathedral built in neo-Gothic style has more then 70 m high, probably the highest building in Białystok. It's near the city center and it's very usefull for trainees in here, it's hard to get lost... :)

The Town Hall

This building is near the fountain and now is a museum hosted here. There are lots of valuable paintings, many of them are portraits of Polish nobles. I have seen a painting having as main character the King Sobieski. Some of you had to know the story about Sobieski and Romanians :) ... anyway, that guy looked extra-large in the painting. There are lots of paintings with religious themes also.

The Fountain

Placed on Lipowa street, which is the most expensive street in the city, this fountain is the real center. Here is the meeting place of the youth. Lovers are dating here and after that they are going many times to the Branicki Garden, where are some benches, a nice lake and more privacy... ;)

1st of December, La multi ani Romania!

I didn't felt ever about this day like I feel today. I think we appreciate more something when we don't have it anymore... Right now I'm 1000 km far away from home, in Białystok. Do you want to know how is to be in a foreign country, wishing to celebrate the Romanian National Day and to be alone? It's not very motivational... Nobody cares about this day here, for them it's just a regular day. I have to be at work, but I told my boss about 1st of December and he allow me to present my country for the marketing department employees. At least I can do this...

I miss the Romanian sky... here the sky is not so beautiful, I miss Diana, I miss all my friends in Targu Mures and in the rest of the country... here the people are ok too but something's still missing! It's not my home... here I have a nice place, but it's not my home...

Proud to be from Romania!