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I'mmmm baaaack... Finally I'm at home! Even if only for a few days, still I'm very happy about it. It was totally crazy month!

More - later.

Again and again...

So, I'm going again tomorrow. I had such a big delays on this blog - already easly 4 posts, probably more. It's loosing it sense again slowly. Polish one as well.

Tomorrow at the morning I'm going to Berlin to take a part in the International Forum on Human Rigts. The Forum will be between 21st and 25th of March. On 27th I'll fly to Brussels to work during the preparatory meeting of the European Youth Week. If everything will be ok on 28th on late afternoon I'll fly to Istanbul to take part in a Symposium concerning the interreligious and intercultural dialogue. If it'll not be ok - I'll go home. I hope that everything will be ok - I would love to go there!

So, I'll be hopefully at home on 1st (maybe 2nd) of April. If not - on 28th or 29th of March. We'll see...

PS. HERE you may find photos from the NCCs Meeting and Action Week in Warsaw. Have a nice time :p

Story about Warsaw

On 2nd March, at early morning I needed to catch my train to Warsaw. During the travel the train got little delay, so after coming to Warsaw I needed to go quickly to my hotel "Fryderyk Chopin". Check in, living the suitcase in the room, short conversation with organizers and then looking for the Jasna Street - where the Polish Representation of the European Commission has its office. In their office (and in cooperation with them) we're organizing a Conference about the future of the EU. During this Conference we're also choosing the youth representatives of Poland for the European Youth Summit in Rome. It was an interesting short event, I've met a few collegues, but already after 3 PM I needed to go back to the hotel - unpacked my suticase before the beginning of the 4th Meeting of the National Campaign Committees of the "ADAE" Campaign. In the room I've met my roommate - Sylwia, whom is also my co-worker in our Polish Committee. She is a really cool girl, very interesting, funny, smart, she is a member of one of the biggest LGBT organizations (coorganizer of the Global Village, Manifa etc.).
At 4 PM we needed to be in Zielna Center, where we had our meetings. After 2,5 h of the opening meeting, together with one more participant, we went to the Central Station - each of us to pick up our friends. She was waiting for her friends and a girlfriend, who has a stand in the Global Village and I was waiting for Sergej :D He left his backpack in our room and we went for a dinner. The restaurant pointed out by organizers were a bit too expensive (spaghetti for 10 Euro!), so finally we finished in McDonald ;) And there also we've met my friends from the PYC and AEGEE - Karolina, Krzysiek and Bartek. After the dinner we went for the evening meeting of NCCs, where all of them has show their promotional and informational materials, then we had meeting about - so called - graffiti project (about which probably I'll wrote more in the future). In the meantime arrived our (mine and Sergej) friend - Piotrek. I like him a looot! After short visit in the hotel we're looking for a free places somewhere in the pub in the center (Friday, around 10 pm!). Finally we chosed "Fajka" (pipe), place which I like in Warsaw :) There joined us Paulina - my friend, who was a host of Sergej. There we spend a few nice hours on conversations, drinking, smoking waterpipe, laughing...

Next day we had 2 workshops - about organizing a social campaign and creating promotional materials. It was very interesting. After them I've met Paulina and Sergej and we went for a lunch in Green Way, serium of restaurants, which I like very much - very nice food and sooo cheap. Then we had coffee in a Green Coffee. And finally we arrived to the Global Village. It was a very interesting place, cool programme, a lot of practical information for everyone, concerts, forum theatre, cinema about the human rights... Very good idea and cool implementation. There I've met Sylwia and people from our Polish NCC. Then together with Sergej we went to the hotel for a meeting about this graffiti project. And then we had a nice dinner in Sphinx. Then a short relax in the hotel and then going for a party which was organized for the end of Global Village in the Mandala Club. It was a great evening. First it was sooo crawded - we're waiting for the locker room about 25 minutes! But the music was great and a cool people around, so it was balanced ;) There we've met for some minutes - Piotrek, Sylwia and Kasia and also flatmates of Paulina - Tomek and Sergej (next one!) and for the whole night with Paulina. We've finished the party at 5, on the way to the hotel few people even bought some additional drinks ;)

Next morning nor me, nor Sylwia, didn't managed to get up and go for the presentations of the good practices from different NCCs. We've decided to sleep a bit longer ;) We got up on 10, had a nice breakfast, met her Italian friend (who was making a documentary about the Action Week) and together we went to the meeting point of the March related with gender equality, women' rights, free choice of women in each case and so on. On the Parades Square we've met already a crowd. It was - with 'easy' counting - 2000 people. And my biggest surprise was an amount of guys around. Practicaly it was a balanced number of females and males around. And I need to write that I liked this fact :) Peacefuly we marched to the Parliament. When we're close to it Sergej joined us as well. There were some speaches, some shoutings, swinging banners ;) And of course there we also met a contra-march, organized by the radical right party - youth branch. They were using a photos of aborted kids (very strange way of demonstrating their opinions, and even more strange - convincing about them). This march consist from 40, maybe 50 people, so nothing to see in comparition with ours ;) After the March we went with a small group for a lunch to the Green Bar and then we had a coffee in Cava. After 5 PM Sergej went to our hotel room to take a nap and we went for a lectures for NCCs about including the LGBT issues in the frame of the Campaign. During those lectures I saw the best ppp in my life! It was made by Bruno from INGLYO and was great! After the break me and 2 guys from our NCC had a meeting with a European Director of the Campaign - Michael. It was a good meeting. Then in the hotel I had a working meeting about possible project organized by NCC from Visegrad countries. We've finished after 10 PM and finally I could go for a dinner. We're planning with Sergej to go for a party because of the Women' Day in the Tomba Tomba Club, but it appeared that after 10 PM all day buses and trams are stopping and then we need to catch a night bus. But we couldn't find any which would go in the part of the city, where this club was. And in addition all nearest restaurants were closing after 11 PM! Gosh... a capital of the European country... :S We had a choice: snack bars in the underground under the train station or McDonal :S We've chosed the second option, but without the eagerness. During the dinner we decided that we don't want to go there by foot, so went to Fajka again. Then we had a nice hours, sitting, talking, drinking... On the way to my hotel we reached a train station, where Sergej took a night bus to Paulinas' place at 2:50 and I took a taxi to the hotel.

At the morning we had open space - discussion groups. Until the lunch I took a part in two of them - about including the Campaign in the school curriculum and about creating a magazin about the work of the NCCs in East Europe. Downstairs I've met Sergej and Sylwia (girlfriend of Jonathan) and we went shopping to buy some nice present for Paulina for hosting him. We've bought a map of Europe and a bunch of tulips. After a short meeting Sylwia needed to go for a driving course and we went again to the Green Way, where we've met Paulina and her co-worker and flatmate - Tomek. After a nice lunch quick packing in the hotel. Then a coffee to go, meeting Paulina on the platform (forgot to give her keys back! ;)) and already needed to go into the EuroCity to Berlin. We had tickets in differents wagons, but wanted to sit together, so we've chosed the smoking compartament, which was totally empty. We're spending time on talking, fooling around, laughing. In one moment it appeared that in the same train are going 2 girls whom we've met during the Action Week. They joined us and it was very nice :) Peggy and Nina are really cool grils! Sergej needed to go out in Frankfurt, to fix some family things, so he needed go home. And I together with girls went to Berlin Ostbahnhof. We've arrived delayed about 25 minutes, so my whole travelling plan must be changed. I've took a S-bahn to Berlin Mahlsdorf, then next one to Strausber Nord. There Agata and Rocia were already waiting for me to take me by car to Klosterdord - our training village ;) I was there around midnight...

Previous stay in Berlin

Thanks to this visit in Germany I got those crazy photos from our previous stay in Berlin (during the preparatory meeting for the TC in Utrecht). So, finally I may publish some of them and invite you to see the rest of those crazy pics in an online album.

I decided to show you some of them, then you may check most of them in this album. Not all of them are good for publishing ;) So, some of them will stay away from the internet :p



Let's get it started...

This is a new type of drink - Żubrówka-pickle drink ;) Soon in all clubs in Europe :p

And our party stock ;) Almost everything what you would like to have :p

And pickle-guys ;) Eh... those Germans :p

Hm... next invention: flakes-plant ;) You may buy it soon on E-bay ;)

Happy gangsta' ;)

Who is taller? :p

Last invention - new way of making dreadlocks :p

Happy friend trio :)

Gangsta' again ;)

And Nutella battle :p

All together we're always having a great, happy time :)

Rest of the "suitable" photos you may find HERE. Have fun while watching and share with me your comments :p

I'm still in Berlin, but already missing so much for those crazy, sweet and dear guys :)

Announcement

Today early at the morning I'm going to Warsaw. First conference, then NCC meeting, then picking up Sergej from the train station and guiding to the hotel, leaving him in my room and goind for NCCs presentations and after that meeting Piotrek and going together 3 of us for a drink. And next days similar - during the day work, taking part in Action Week and at evenings partying with Sergej and other people from Warsaw and whole Europe.
At 5th we're taking an EuroCity train and going to Germany together (at least until Frankfurt ;)) and I'm going to Strausberg Nord for this T4T about upcycling. I'll stay there until 10th and then spending one day and night Berlin (hope to have fun ;)) and going back home. I should be home about 8 PM on 11th.

Not for a long time....

Ups and downs

I feel strange. And I don't know if it's a result of visiting dentist today or rather beginning of being ill :/ I hope the first one. I don't want to be sick before the trip to Warsaw.

During the weekend I got the next refusal for the job as a trainer. It was quite depressing and demotivating to be honest. It was too long time without any nice result. And of course friends were trying to convince me that it'll change, but since some time I hate good advices like: everything will be ok, that's just the bad moment and so on. I know that they are probably very true, but I hate them. I think that if it's too much then you may have enough of everything ;) And after those refusals during last 2 months I heard so much of them ;)

And today I got a surprising, nice e-mail from the SALTO Participation Center that I was accepted as a one of six trainers who will lead creative workshops during the European Youth Week in Brussels :D Great! It's a nice job for the European Commission and SALTO. And quite good paid as well :p And again Brussels twice this year (at least) - the city which I like much. And I already know that one of the other 5 trainers is Behrooz - with whom I worked in Kusadasi last year :D He is a great guy and very professional trainer. So, 2 nice news in one day :)
Now I need to find a good connection in reasonable price to go for the preparatory meeting to Brussels. It will be soon - 27/28th of March, so I should be quick in searching and deciding. We'll see :)

Finally I have 2 applications to send before I'll go to Warsaw and at this moment one to send after coming back home. And 2 or 3 project applications to write. One until 5th of March. And things to do for our National Campaign Committee. And other stuff as well, so not really free time.

On 2nd at the morning I'll go to Warsaw. First I'll take part in a debate about the future of Europe, organized (in relation with 50th anniversary of the EU) by the representation of European Commission and the Polish Youth Council :) And at the afternoon the 4th Meeting of the NCCs of the Campaign will start. At 7 PM we will have dinner and at 6:25 Sergej will come to the central train station, so I hope I'll manage to pick him up from the train station after finishing the meeting on this day. Oh, yes, I forgot to write that Sergej will come for the Action Week in Warsaw :) It's really nice of him that he is coming from Germany to support tolerance and open-mindness(?) of the Polish society :D Now, I'm arranging a free host for him. Probably it'll be one guy who is the member of the Amnesty International and Campaign Against Homophobia, so he will be related also with the Action Week, so should be nice. But it's not still sure. I need to discuss with host and guest ;)
So, during those few days in the frame of the Meeting we will take also part in the Action Week, so it'll be even easy to meet during the day for some hours and it shouldn't be difficult to involve him as well in the evenings - first one is NCC market ;), second is a big party, third is free. During the fourth evening there will be an oppening of the nice exhibition related with the issue. But we'll not be there already.

Because on the afternoon 5th of March we'll take an EuroCity train and go together to Frankfurt. Then he is going to the family home and I'm going to the village near Berlin. I'll participate in the training course for trainers related with upcycling, so - how my friend wrote - how to change trash into a treasure ;) What is funny it's starting 3 days before my arrival, so I will skip 3 days. But they need a next pax from Poland. It'll be a bit strange to try to integrate with the group which is already quite integrated. I hope I'll manage. And on the next day after my arrival we're going for the whole day to Berlin ;) First visiting some alternative cloths galleries and Turkish Market and then a free time :D I should be home at 11th of March, staying one day longer in Berlin after the training.

And after 9 days again I'll go to Berlin ;) This time to participate in the International Forum on Human Rights. And almost from Berlin (or really from there) I'll go to Brussels for this preparatory meeting of the EYW. Wow, March start to look as a very short month ;) And 1st April will be quite difficult date then ;)

Ok, it's already very long post :p But that's life - nothing or much :p Or middle :p

Berlin again ;)

Finally Maartje has some free time after first part of moving, so we could talk on MSN :) And she even managed to upload pictures from the weekend in Berlin, so she invited me for Yahoo photo sharing. I saved them and even if they are very low quality (from this photo sharing), I'll try to publish them here. Let's see.

I've met Jitske first time in Berlin. It's a very nice, funny, warm, talkative, smart and creative person. I like her :)

And this is Kathrin. I've met her already two or three times, don't even remember ;) I like this sitster from the sisterhood of bitches ;)

And here (from the left) - Jonathan, Jakob and Sergej. So, my three favourite German guys :D

And that's lovely Anai (I don't have a clue how to write her name ;)) - originaly fromm Argentine, for a while from Spain and now from Berlin. She and her lovely Argentinian tango.


And here my two great friends - Maartje and Jonathan. I like them so much :D

And last, but not least - me and Sergej in the nice pub.

And two sisters from the Sisterhood ;)

That's all for this moment. Now, I need to wait for those crazy and cool pictures and movies, which we done on Monday early morning with Jakob and Sergej ;)

Busy time

A few days of silence, beacuse first of all not much happened, and secondarily I had quite busy time now.

At this moment I have about 14 applications to write until 9th of March - and if everything would be good they needed to be finished at 1st of March. All of them. Most of them is for a job as a trainer, 1 or 2 for grants and rest for participation in some events. Besides that I need to write many e-mails, finish finally one report and start to work on 2 project applications for 1st April. Looks busy ;)

Last days weren't so busy with chating with friends. A few conversations with Biba, Sylwia and Annamari and a few short with Maartje. Biba is busy with her essays, Sylwia with being in Berlin ;) Annamari and Maartje with work. Maartje additionally with moving to her new appartement during this weekend. Rene and Catalina are participating in the EBM in Gliwice, Jakob has problems with the computer, Sergej is preparing his drawings for an exam on Monday and so on. I need to be patient more less until the beginning-middle of next week. Don't have any other choice ;)

When I switched my computer on the St. Valentine's Day I was greet with hugs from Sylwia, then got message from my blog-friend Marta. And then the whole day nothing. And suddenly at the evening I got a short wishes on Gadu-Gadu from a single guy. And it was M. - the last guy from whom I expected to get wishes on this day! ;) What a surprise. Then we had a nice and quite long - as for him - conversation on GG. Interesting end of the evening.

In this week I got again one refusal about the job - it looks like 'habbit' now :( I wonder if there will be any positive institutional answer in this half of the year? Let's wait and see...

A few days ago I received a news from the lady from the Council of Europe that our project (about HRE planned with the PYC) is on the waiting list and we'll get the final answer on the beginning of next week. So, I started to worry about it. And suddendly today we got the final answer - we got the grant!!! It's cool. The only problem now is that we got 3500 Euro less than we applied :( That means looking for the other resources, what is not easy in this country in 2 months. Even less if we want to confirm the hotel reservation. Or changing the nice hotel for a hostel, which I wouldn't like to do, to be honest. But still great! Marius already confirmed that dates are still ok for him. Now I'm waiting for the confirmation from Marc. And we'll aslo get the support from CoE in the form of the 4th trainer nominated and paid by them :) And some other things - promotion on websites, support letters and so on. We may also have a visit of the employee of the CoE during our TC, but this is not sure and will be cofirmed later. Now I need to create a preparation schedule and a revised budget and send it together with a confirmation of the date to the CoE before 19th of February! They didn't gave us much time... ;) This is the first grant which we got from the CoE, so I'm quite happy - maybe this is a beginning of the CoE-adventure on next level? ;)

It looks that the PYC is slowly moving forward. On 2nd March there will be one day conference organized by the PYC and the representation of the European Commission in Poland. We're also organizing together a 2 competitions (essay and ideas) and the winners will be nominated by the PYC to go to the Youth Summit in Rome :) Lucky guys :p We're also talking about the study visit of the representative of the European Youth Forum - to come to Poland for a few days to help us to plan the development of the PYC, talking about our membership in it, having meetings with stakeholders to convince them to support us and so on. Cross your fingers for all those things!

I also received a preliminary information that I was accepted for a 4th meeting of the National Campaign Committees of the "All Different - All Equal" Campaign, which will be held at the beginning of March in Warsaw. At the beginning of the next week I should get the final confirmation and more details. So, during those days I will probably (at least partly) participate in the "Action Week" organized by our Polish NCC. It will be for sure interesting - week against a homophobia in our country! I hope I'll not be hurt ;) Hehehe... no, fairytale - not during the meeting of NCCs of the Council of Europe Campaign ;) I hope there will be also more collegues and friends.

I started to help our NCC some weeks ago. Now I'm taking care about one competition organized with help of the group of journalists, a database of projects held in the frame of the Campaign by our partner NGOs and creating an offer for new partners. So, also quite much work. But it's fun - finally I'm in the NCC, so officialy involved in my lovely Campaign :D

Additionaly, Mara - my hungarian friend - send me an offer to apply for the training courses about cultural diversity and youth participation for 1st April. To finally work together as a team :) One would be held in Poland during the fall, one in Hungary. She is negotiating with one hungarian NGO and I'm in touch with two friends NGO - of Ewa and of Sylwia. So, I hope that everything will work and during this fall I'll have additional 2 training courses to lead and to lead them with my lovely friend Mara. And maybe some other friends - don't have plans still for the rest of the team :)

And maybe finally I'll be paid for the seminar in Macedonia! At least one from organizers promissed to send the money in the end of next week. And I don't know where - to the local organizer or directly to me... Besides, it's Italian NGO, so probably end of February or mid-March is more realistic ;) Let's see!

Besides that I'm suppose to write an application for the youth project for our local partnership before 5th of March. I have problems with brainstorming, it seems that ideas which I really like are not so well seem by the board of it. Let's see as well. The problem is that I should also co-ordinate it, so for me the best time would be half of June - half of August. If 2 projects will not be accepted then since the beginning of June to the end of September. But I would prefer if they would be accepted of course! And I hope that they will like my last idea, which I find not so bad - mostly busy during the July, later rather moderation and in September one meeting.

Ok, I was thinking to write the post also on the Polish blog, but I'll just check my e-mails and try to go to sleep. It would be good to return to good habbits - going to sleep at midnight :p

Gurken und Wurst ;)

I’m using the time in the Eurocity train from Berlin to Poznań to write this post. It’s a pity that I don’t have a internet connection in the train. Maybe in the future…

Yesterday around 8 Sergej came to Jonas’ place. We had a very nice conversation during drinking the tea and waiting until Jakob will finish his work. He is doing the placement in the house for handicapped people instead of military service and work often until 8 – 9 – 10 PM. When he finished his work and has a bit of time to relax physically and mentally we went to Neu Kolln to visit him. We’re planning to talk some time and then to go to Friedrischshein visit Sergejs’ place, but finally we decided that it’s too late – it was around 23 and the metro stopped at 1 AM. So, we went only to the shop to buy an apple juice for the Żubrówka, which I brought. On the way from the shop we’ve noticed one Turkish fast food, which was still open, so we went there to have a really good and very cheap kebab. It was 1,5 Euro normally and when we’re buying it, it was even a promotional price, so less than that! After coming home we opened this big bottle and have a funny and nice time with all those ‘bad’ stuff – drinking, smoking and so on. We had a lot of very interesting conversations, but at some moment we started to have this ‘silly’ mood, so e.g. preparing a terrible drink – Żubrówka with water from the tap, water from the pickles and one pickle inside ;) Or making a lot of stupid photos, e.g. gangsta serium or ‘how to badly eat Nutella’ serium :p We had Nutella all over our faces at some point ;) Then we even started to make movies (Jakobs’ camera has option of doing 10 minutes long movies). And that was the ‘final’ of silly things – still with Nutella, then with a ‘documentary movie’ – how to prepare and smoke joints ;) and so on. It was really crazy time! And I just love it! Now it’s only one bad thing – I need to wait for those pics and movies :( Jakob probably lost somewhere the cable for uploading photos and his laptop doesn’t have a memory card reader, so he is now planning to buy one and then burn them on the CD and or give it to me (if it would be possible to meet) or send it by post. But it will probably take some weeks :( Around 6 at the morning we decided to go home. Sergej went with me until the doors of Jonas’ place again - to be sure that I’ll be safe and to say goodbye. So, I was in my bed again after 6 and slept until 10:30, so not really long. But I’m planning to sleep in those 2 slow train which I will take from Poznań to my place. After waking up and taking the shower I packed my things, talk a little bit with Jonathan. Then ate my croissant with marzipan ;) during checking my e-mails. And at the end again talking with Jona before going to the U-bahn station. On the Ostbahnhof I bought quite nice postcard, which I will send to Biba, when I’ll be back home. I promised to send her postcards from places, which I will visit. But I forgot to write down the address from the e-mail from her, so I couldn’t write some nice words and send it on the Ostbahnhof, because I didn’t had the address :/ Silly me!

In general – it was a absolutely fabulous time! I spend such a great days and nights here :D Even if we needed to work – it was interesting, efficient and quite innovative, even if sometimes it was with quite hot discussions ;) Then, when we had a free time I’ve spend a really cool time with Maartje, Jona and Jitske and also a lot of beautiful time with Sergej and Jakob. I just love it! And I’ll miss all of them so much! We need to find a next opportunity, which makes possible to meet again quite fast. Maybe I should move to Berlin? ;) But my knowledge of German is rather not sufficient ;) Even if I developed it with Gurken and Wurst and zuruck bleiben bitte ;) I think it’s not enough :p But from the other hand it would be a way of quick development of my German skills. But then I need to work somewhere to be able to live there… hm… ;) We’ll see, you never know what will happen soon! And I was a very good girl again, even if… Hm… There were some little temptations, but my angel site again won. I’m not sure if it’s good :p But it seems to be in my nature now… Too long of being such a good girl, too difficult to change it now. Maybe I need to develop my evil side as well now… Slowly, on each trip, then maybe in some weeks/months I will be again less angel and a little bit more ‘evil’ ;) Let’s see… It could be quite nice sometimes :p Hm….

From Berlin

Girls went to take a train, I just cleaned the kitchen, Jona is finishing a meeting, so I've found a few minutes to write a post. I'll stay here until tomorrow midday, so I still have some nice hours to spend here :)
Those days were really soooo cool! :D I've met Maartje and Jitske on the main station and then we're going together to Jonas' place. Then he prepared a spaghetti for us and we're suppose to start the work after eating it. But somehow our time just pass by on chatting to fast ;) So, we decided to change an environment to more suitable for working ;) and we move to the place called Roma Theater. Then actually we were working for 1-2 hours. Because then it was quite late (about 22) and we're suppose to go for a tango concert of Annai, we decided to eat a great and very cheap pizza on the way to the concert restaurant. On the way we've met Kathrin and all together we came to listen to Annai to the middle of nowhere and it was a really nice part of the evening. After concert we still were sitting in the restaurant, drinking the wine and chatting. Then we started slowly move back to Jonas' flat, because he was suppose to wake up at 8 to go for some meetings and both girls were tired after the work week. On the way to his place Jakob called that he and Sergej finally may meet with us, but the tired 3 decided to stay at home and I just wait a bit in the flat and then they came to pick me up around shortly after 2 o'clock ;) We went to the closest open pub, which is very nice and cheap and we spent a lovely 3 hours there chatting, drinking beer and smoking :) Then they decided to show me that German guys are also gentelmans, so they went with me until the Jonas' door :) So, I was in my bed after 5 at the morning.
On Saturday I woked up after 11 and after 12 we started to work on the program with girls, while Jona was on the meetings. He came at 3 and started to question everything, so finally we stopped to work on the program and decided to go dowstairs to the cute and little cafe and there work on the general content and vision of the TC. At the end of the evening we had a really original and I think interesting concept of the training course. We'll see how it'll work in the practice, but if it'll be ok, then we should publish it and make the people use it ;) Then we went to a nice Turkish restaurant to have a really great dinner. The meal was soooo huge and not really expensive. Cool :D When we almost died after eating too much ;) we decided to move more to the center and meet Sergej and Jakob there and spend the evening together. We met them in the very 'pubbish' and student part of the city and - because everything was so crowded - we went to a restaurant called "Habana" and have a nice drinks there. around 11-12 we got sms from Kathrin that her friend is organizing a 'Berlin-private-party' (it seems to be a famous category of parties :)) and we may go there to join them. And of course we did ;) It was a nice appartament full of people. We had a nice drinking-chatting-smoking time there, but of course after 2 o'clock girls and Jona decided that they are tired and going home :p Unfortunately Jakob is working today as well, so he also needed to go home. So, only Sergej and I decided to stay longer. We had a really nice rest of the night, talking a lot. Suddendly a few friends of him (from the place were he was living) came and I've met many nice people on this party as well. At 5 at the morning we decided to move to home. But during the waiting (20 min!) for the U-bahn we found out that we're soooo hungry that we can't go to sleep like that. So, we went to the Hermansplatz to find some still open place and eat. The only open place was McDonald :S But if you're very hungry at the 5:30 at the morning even this is ok ;) So, we had a nice breakfast :p Segej went with me to Jonas' flat and then home. And I was in my bed at 6:30.
Today I woked up at 12 and we had a nice walk to the bakery all together. Since the night there is a bit of snow here, so we had a snowballs fight on the way ;) After a nice breakfast we were working until 5. Then girls packed, talk a bit with us and moved to the train station. Jona had a meeting, I was talking with Sylwia on MSN. Later I cleaned the kitchen and now writing ;) I hope that soon after finishing the post Sergej will come and we'll meet to visit Jakob and later move to Sergejs' flat to drink Żubrówka, which I brought :) Jona is going for a dinner to a friend and I hope that later he will join us as well. It must be a great night - last during this stay here. And we need to plan a next meeting ;) I'm so happy to be here and meet all of them and it was such a crazy, great, nice and warm time :D It's just cool!

Tomorrow

Still there is no answer about the decission of the Selection Commitee about the grant for the training course about Human Rights Education and Compass. Strange... First time since I have a contact with the Council of Europe (fall 2004) they didn't implement what they promissed. It was written that the decission will be until 6th of February and nothing until now. And from 'my sources" ;) I know that the lady responsible for that is not in the office until Tuesday! Grrrr.... So much nerves for me and the others whom were helping in the application for one week more! Uffff...

During this week I got 3 or 4 rejections for my job applications. That makes me really unhappy. What's more - I really think that my profile is better and better, but it seems that not for them. Especially for the last rejection - they explained whom they choosed and at least one person has very similar (or even I would say worse) profile than mine! But in this circle unfortunatelly personal relationships are so important as well :/ I'm loosing my self-confidence slowely. Beginning of this year is definatelly worse than last year! And in last year I had a lot less of those nice experiences! Very starnge and it makes me said and discourage... Demotivate...

But one things helps me forget about it until next week! Tomorrow I'll go to Berlin for a preparatory meeting of the training course in the Netherlands in April. We'll have this meeting in Jonathans' place :) So, I'll meet my lovely friend Maartje and her friend and co-worker Jitske (whom I don't know still personally). And already tomorrow at the evening, about 7-8, I'll meet as well my cool friends from the last training in Banica - Sergej and Jakob :D I'm so happy about it! And they promissed to spend with me my free time during the whole stay! :D Jakob even took a day off in the job ;) Sergej don't need to do it still ;) That's so great and I'm so amazingly happy that I'll meet them all and spend with them time until Monday :D Maybe we'll even implement a "Free Hugs Campaign" in Berlin, we're talking about it with Sergej a few days ago. That would be very interesting for sure! Let's see... For tomorrow we're thinking about the chill out evening. Then on Saturday continuation of work and at the evening crazy party ;) On Sunday again work and at the afternoon Maartje and Jitske are going home and I'm staying until Monday midday, so for me again a nice evening with guys :)

Ok, time for Polish blog as well...

Today...

... cross your fingers for me and one project!

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Update: Upssss.... Hm... It's typical for me - made mistake with dates! The important date is 6th of February, so tomorrow! So, save your fingers for tomorrow then ;)

Time to party

Since 2 days I'm sitting home and relaxing - reading books, listening to the music, talking with friends and family, sending e-mails, playing stupid games ;) But to be honest - I'm missing my friends. 2 friends leaving nearby has little kids, husbands, jobs and houses 'to take care about', so they almost don't have a free time to meet with me. And now most of my other friends is quite busy, so not being online very often. That makes me a bit more melancholic... I should find new friends somewhere near, but how to do it now... I love leaving in the village, but sometimes it makes things more difficult. And I would love to just go out with friends, have a great time together... But in 5 days I'll be in Berlin, so at least for 3 days I'll have many friends around :D But then probably longer break again... But who knows!

Because I bought this laptop in this time I had a promotional offer - I could order Windows Vista Home Premium for free. Just paying for tax and transport - whole was 20 Euro. I ordered and in 6-8 weeks (!) I should have it home. Until then I'll consider if I should install it ;) Sergej started 3 days ago and made a huge mess with his computer... But from the other hand this one is 'adapted' for Windows Vista, at least it's written like that on the cover. Let's wait and see...

Today we had a national eliminations for Eurovision. I decided to watch it and was quite surprised. For 10 bands - 4 - lets say - weren't Polish (2 Swedish, one I don't remember from where and one mixed). And I must say that I liked the song which won. If you want to hear (and see) it - it's HERE. I must say that I liked the idea that Poland will be represented by girl with Russian origin and black British guy :D It seems that young people don't support the 'only-one-right-government' with his 'mission of Polish Poland'. At least not in music tastes. I'll cross my fingers for this song when the time will come...

Ok, going to sleep finally!

Ce soir...

...je éprouver de la nostalgie...


Beaucoup...

La vie maintenant

Il est juste pendant 2 jours après que je suis venu à la maison... Et il semble être des âges... Et manquant toujours beaucoup... Mais c'est sentiment tellement gentil à l'intérieur de moi que j'ai rencontré un si grand peuple et ai le temps tellement merveilleux ensemble... Pitié juste il est fini déjà...

Je pense que j'ai déjà édité cette chanson avant, mais elle n'importe pas maintenant... Costumes justes ici et maintenant... Seulement en anglais - à fatigué...

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It's just 2 days after I came home... And it seems to be ages... And still missing very much... But it's so nice feeling inside me that I've met such a great people and have so wonderful time together... Just pity it's finished already...

I think I already published this song before, but it doesn't matter now... Just suits here and now...

"Life Is Wonderful" - Jason Mraz

It takes a crane to build a crane

It takes two floors to make a story

It takes an egg to make a hen

It takes a hen to make an egg

There is no end to what I'm saying

It takes a thought to make a word

And it takes some words to make an action

It takes some work to make it work

It takes some good to make it hurt

It takes some bad for satisfaction

La la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Al la la la la

It takes a night to make it dawn

And it takes a day to make you yawn brother

And it takes some old to make you young

It takes some cold to know the sun

It takes the one to have the other

And it takes no time to fall in love

But it takes you years to know what love is

It takes some fears to make you trust

It takes those tears to make it rust

It takes the dust to have it polished

Ha la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is so full of

Ah la la la la la la life is so rough

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ah la la la la la la life is our love

Ah la la la la la

It takes some silence to make sound

It takes a loss before you found it

And it takes a road to go nowhere

It takes a toll to make you care

It takes a hole to make a mountain

Ah la la la la la la life is wonderful

Ah la la la la la la life goes full circle

Ha la la la la la life is wonderful

Ha la la la la la life is meaningful

Ha la la la la la life is wonderful

Ha la la la la la life it is...so... wonderful

It is so meaningful

It is so wonderful

It is meaningful

It is wonderful

It is meaningful

It goes full circle

Wonderful

Meaningful

Full circle

Wonderful

C'était un temps extraordinaire

Le bout 10 jours étaient étonnant. Stupéfiant en raison des personnes, de l'endroit, du temps, de la formation, de la nourriture, des conversations, des parties, des additions savoureuses aux parties ;) Temps merveilleux avec de belles personnes. J'ai trouvé peu de gens avec qui pour sûr je voudrais rester en contact et développer cette relation dans une amitié à long terme. J'espère que ce sera possible...

J'essayerai d'écrire une 'vue d'ensemble 'courte de ce temps... ;) Après un long voyage avec beaucoup de moments soumettants à une contrainte (dus à ce vent orageux tous les trains ont été retardés) je suis arrivé à Kraków. Là j'ai rencontré le premier participant - type roumain frais appelé Liviu (ou Ninja ;)) Nous voyageons ensemble à Stróże. Dans le même train était également Piotr, mais nous non parvenu à se réunir dans le train. Après être venu à Banica nous avons dîné gentil. Pendant de soirée les participants allemands et roumains également est venu. Les participants bulgares, turcs et autrichiens sont venus plus tard - pendant le 2ème jour de la formation. Les premiers jours nous avons eu des entrées de 2 nos entraîneurs - Karolina (poli) et Anna (russe), avec également notre participation. Alors nous avons eu la moitié par jour libre - plus du groupe est allé pour un looong, promenade gentille autour des montagnes près - à une pension, où nous avons eu le chocolat chaud et le dos intéressants. Alors nous avons fait aller le jour 2.5 pour la pièce appelée les "participants des entraîneurs" - chaque groupe de réflexion a eu la moitié du jour à mener à posséder la session. Nôtres étaient au sujet "de communication interculturelle" et étaient tout à fait gentils. Plus tard nous avons eu un jour "de l'espace ouvert" et le jour passé - des projets et évaluation. Becasue de retardent en venant à la moitié de Banica du groupe que nous avons eu la soirée internationale dans 2 parts ;) Ce qui était tout à fait gentil ;) En général - toutes les soirées étaient agréables et spéciales :) Tout à fait bientôt nous avons eu un sous-groupe de personnes partying ;) Naturellement j'étais dans ce groupe. Mais surprisely nous non eu toutes les parties dansantes (très bonnes pour moi !), mais séance juste, causant, buvant, fumant, riant, dessins animés en difficulté d'observation ;), écoutant la musique, appréciant la cheminée et. Elle était si grande ! J'aime vraiment ce petit groupe tellement ! Elle est incroyable combien vous pouvez apprécier un sejour avec peu de gens pendant 10 jours !

Et cet endroit... si vous avez le beau, chaud, savoureux, intéressant séjour dans l'endroit silencieux - visitez Banica. Choisissez la maison, pas aussi près des autres maisons et de peu de kilomètre de village. Entouré par de petites montagnes, beaucoup d'intéresser et choses tout à fait vieilles à voir autour, chevaux, forêt, nature, fleuves, neige... Propriétaires de gentil, chauds et intéressants... Nourriture incroyablement délicieuse, dans la grande maison de partie faite... Maison magique avec de belles choses dans elle... 5 chats... Petit ruisseau près de la maison... Bel endroit ! J'irai chercher là sûr quand j'aurai seulement une prochaine possibilité ! Je la manque déjà !

Les gens... Petit groupe - 16 participants et 2 entraîneurs. J'ai passé un beau temps avec peu d'eux : Laura, Sergej, Jakob, Liviu, Olta, Piotr... En outre Iuliana, Marius et Jan.... Il était si grand... Je suis absent ils déjà ! Au moins j'ai le rai avec Laura et Sergej déjà un peu... C'est quelque chose ce qui me fait désirant ardemment un peu moins. Mais toujours... ;) Si tout sera correct - en 10 jours je rencontrerai Anna, Jakob et Sergej à Berlin :D et passerai peut-être quelques soirées agréables ensemble ! J'espère ainsi !

Oh... quelle belle heure j'ai eue là... Mais je pense que j'étais un ange trop long à être maintenant une mauvaise fille... Hm... pitié ?

Grrrrrand temps ! Il a valu la peine d'aller là pour sûr ! Maintenant, seulement désirant ardemment tellement...

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Last 10 days were amaizng. Amazing becasue of people, place, time, training, food, conversations, parties, tasty additions to parties ;) Wonderful time with beautiful people. I found few people with whom for sure I would like to keep in touch and develop this relation in a long-term friendship. I hope it'll be possible...

I'll try to write a short 'overview' of this time... ;) After a long travel with many stressing moments (due to this stormy wind all trains were delayed) I arrived to Kraków. There I've met first participant - cool Romanian guy called Liviu (or Ninja ;)) We're travelling together to Stróże. In the same train was also Piotr, but we didn't managed to meet in the train. After coming to Banica we had a nice dinner. During the evening also German and Romanian participants came. Bulgarian, Turkish and Austrian participants came later - during 2nd day of training. First days we had inputs from 2 our trainers - Karolina (Polish) and Anna (Russian), with also our participation. Then we had half a day free - most of the group went for a looong, nice walk around the mountains near - to one hostel, where we had nice hot chocolate and back. Then we had 2,5 day for the part called "Participants go trainers" - each reflection group had half of the day to lead own session. Ours was about "Intercultural communication" and was quite nice. Later we had one day of "Open space" and last day - projects and evaluation.
Becasue of delay in coming to Banica half of the group we had International Evening in 2 parts ;) What was quite nice ;) In general - all evenings were nice and special :) Quite soon we had a subgroup of partying people ;) Of course I was in this group. But surprisely we didn't had any dancing parties (very good for me!), but just sitting, chatting, drinking, smoking, laughing, watching sick cartoons ;), listening to the music, enjoying fireplace and each other. It was so great! I really like this small group so much! It's incredible how much you may enjoy a staying with few people for 10 days!

And this place... if you have lovely, warm, tasty, interesting stay in silent place - visit Banica. Single house, not so close to the other houses and few km from village. Surrounded by small mountains, many interesting and quite old things to see around, horses, forest, nature, rivers, snow... Nice, warm and interesting owners... Incredibly delicious food, in big part home made... Magic house with beautiful things in it...5 cats... Small brook near the house... Beautiful place! I will go there for sure when I will only have a next possibility! I miss it already!

People... Small group - 16 participants and 2 trainers. I spent a lovely time with few of them: Laura, Sergej, Jakob, Liviu, Olta, Piotr... Also Iuliana, Marius and Jan... It was so great... I'm missing them already! At least I've spoke with Laura and Sergej already a bit... That's something what makes me a little bit less longing. But still... ;) If everything will be ok - in 10 days I'll meet Anna, Jakob and Sergej in Berlin :D And maybe spend some nice evenings together! I hope so!

Oh... what a lovely time I had there... But I think I was too long an angel to now be a bad girl... Hm... pity?

Greeeeat time! It was worth to go there for sure! Now, only longing so much...

Going again

Ok, didn't manage to write anything during last busy days. Now I'll also not write much. Just one to inform those, who are reading it that between 18th and 28th of January I'm off from home.
I'm going to be trained as well ;) I'll take a part in the training for trainers on cross-cultural competences, which will take place somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Polish mountains (but those small ones). Seriously - just our hostel and one farm, even not a village.
We'll have this small hostel for ourselves. Group is small - I think 17 people + trainer, coming from 5 countries: Poland, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria and Germany. I hope it'll be a good time.
I'm suppouse to have a wireless internet there, but let's see how it'll work. Especially that the weather is totally crazy, so who knows...
I will be back on 28th at the evening. Hugs!
Aha, you may find the info, where am I - HERE. Even in English and German ;) Some of our small hostels seems to be modern ;)

Happy New Year!

I know it's a bit later than probably it should be 'announced', but it's still just beginning of the year, so it suits here perfectly. Thanks Serhan for the inspiration :)

And probably all of you already know very well that I just love this Campaign and I'm in with my heart :) Link on the right side of my blog ;)

Back from Berlin

Back from Berlin. Back from Warsaw. Don't feel like writing the post about it. Don't feel like having this blog any longer.

Berlin was amazing, beautiful time with great people. Happy to meet so many new interesting people. Great time, place, people... Only little dissapointments, but it doesn't matter in the whole vision at all. One of the times of my life for sure! And miss it a lot... a lot...

Going to Berlin

In half an hour I'm starting my travel to Berlin for the NY-stay ;) I'm happy to be there again for few days and even more happy to spend those few days with 4 my friends and few collegues! That's soooo cool :D We'll have a nice party tomorrow and besides that probably visit many nice place in Berlin as well.

I should be back on 4th of January, if I'll not go for a meeting to Warsaw. Who knows...

I wish you a great, unforgetten party and a perfect year 2007!