Monday, July 30, 2007

Super weekend!!! no words! just impressions!




Hello to everyone!


This weekend my company invited me to their social event to slovakia! Actually, this was not so kind of social event, cause in the first day(out of two) we were having educational trainings on softskills to the company workers! As i was for a long time in AIESEC, nothing was new for me, but it was interesting to hear the information in Czech language! besides it was a very good teambuilding and as a fact the whole company is like a big team consisting of many other mini-teams(according to the departments)! everyone is friendly and knows what, when, where and how to to everything! that is really great!


well, sorry for not posting fotos here, cause there are plenty of them on my foto site:






ok! now impressions!


WOWOWOWOW! GREAT-GREAT-WOOOOWWWW!


i've never seen such beautiful and clean nature!


on the first day we had a run through the forest to the skiing base(fotos on my site:)


AFTER this there was a huge -mega party on the open air near our hotel!


i've tasted a lot of the best Czech beer named Radegast - it consists of 12 degrees alco, that is much for the beer!!


BUT moreover, after this i have tastet for the first time in my life the frogs legs! it were Indonesian frogs! At first i was a bit scared to eat them (my mindset was against it:), but after drinking a couple of litres of bee everything appeared normal, he-he! So, the taste is really wonderfull, it lookes like a chicken, but not so much! just good taste!! Of cource we've eaten not only legs, but also traditional for piknics food - sauceges, real chicken and fried bananas (by the way 0very interesting taste)


Being tired of the first day we went to sleep!


but we coulndt imagine, what was waiting for us in the next day!


after a good lunch we went on cars somewhere in the mountains of the mount system FATRA -this is the north of Slovakia !


First thin i saw there among all mountains-the huge, very high mountain!


I've said-wow! and the boss of the company told: by the way, we are going to climb there today. well, really, i thought that it was a simple joke (as Czechs like to joke and joke much), but after a half of hour i understood, that i was wrong. we entered the big canyon with beautifull waterfalls and wery dangerous and slurpy road, sometimes we had to climb on rocks!


well, such journey lasted for 4 hours!


i couldnt even imagine how hard would it be! Several times i wantes just simply to stop, turn around, and go back! BUT ! 1) it would cause i am a chicken 2) there was no way back (cause of rocks, you know, you can climb, but not go back, you will just fall) 3) i am young and my boss who is more than 30 and other workes, which are a bit older than me were going without any sufferings, they enjoyed it and here i really believed that Czechs are a healthy and sporty nation!!!


That is why i put my forces together , opened my second breath! and , oh wonder, i managed to be almost the first to reach the top leaving the others back!!


On the very top of the mountain the beautifullest sightes opened before my eyes!


really lots of mountains beneath you! you can see far away, very cold upthere, but just beautifull! i understood that it was worth of it!


Do you thin by reaching the top the hardships were over??? NO!


we had to get of this mount) and ot was also challenge!!


way back, cincentration not to fall, 2 hours in the way! no forces! but after this, when we were back to the civilization, we had a good dinner- national slovak food - HALUSHKI!!!!


we were back in Czech republic in the evening, tired, not feeling ourselves, but happy and full of emotions! Sleeping like the dead ones, having pain in the whole body next day, i am writing you now!


Of cource we have found enough forces to visit the ZOO -one of the biggest in Europe next day!


there is also everything great!lots of animals, big territory!


you can also find some pictures from the ZOO in my fotosite:






Yes!


hope, you enjoy to read this as much as i enjoyed feeling it!


waiting for comments and posts!


Till next time)


Thursday, July 26, 2007

just a nice morning)

so here is the another day came to us)it is exactly the week of my work on the company and i am going to cebrate it)this friday the company is going to have the corporate social event in slovakia in the Tatri mountains! so i am also going to be there)i think that it will be just 2 super days! besides the expected rest in mountains there will like in AIESEC some learning activities, discussions and seminairs on the open air.Tatri are the very beautiful mountains with the virgin nature, i hope to make there lots of beautiful fotos and i will definitely upload them)the only problem i have with the company is that a very little amount of people there speak english and those wgho speak are doing it not in the besrt way!that is why i just have to learn CZech language and want to say tha i am doing it pretty good!At least for more than a week being in this country , i understand 70% of talks, the only option is that people have to speak slowly with me!By the way, all the employess are trying to study english here, that is why once a week to the company comes the teacher and they are having lessons!)
Well, yesterday i have promiced to write some words about other intens which we have in Ostrava!So, here ae the girls from: India, Aistralia and 2 from Ukraine, boys from China, Canada, Brazil and Ukraine(its me) also)soon i ершил that we are expecting some new)in a week there will be the official welcome-party for us( me, Vika, and the guy who just came from Brazil), i think we will celebrate it in the AIESEC flat and then move to thу one of tghe most streets in Czech Republic - Stodolni Streen - here are a lot of Pubs and other entertainment.By the way, the pubs are not so expensive!we are living almost altogether in a doctorants dormitory in the Centre of the city, so, if we need to gather or to speak, just knock the next to you door on the same floor!as i am writing this post, i still dont know how to name it)well, its almost the time to start my work! that is why soon will be the another posts)as it is here said AHOI- BYE!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Korol mertv - Da Zdravstvuet korol

The king is dead - vivat to the King!
interesting name for the post)
what i meant by this?
As i am on internship in another country, it logically means that i have left my previous life in Ukraine, at least the way of life, and i wont return to it anymore, because anyone changes and especially on the internship.
Though Czechs are the Slovan people, as Ukrainians or Russians or whatever are, here is everything different. one of my own advices on how to attitude to the differences in culture is to think in such a way: it is not better or worce, it is just different!
dont try to compare your and another country, rather try to understand it)
I never understood, how is it possible in Europe not to see after 23.00 people on the streets, are they hiding?? no, its just another rythm of life, as for me, now i got up at 5 in the morning to go for work and have to go to sleep at 23.00 in order not to feel sleepy the next day.
But in my " previous" life (remember the name of this post) i went to bed at 2 or 3 in the night and got up at 10 or 11 in the morning.
And you know what? i feel much better now, waking up in the earl)

concerning other pecularities: here is the beautifull nature) in the middle of summer the grass is green (its unbelievable for the Crimea, Ukraine), its not so hot ( by hot i mean 30 and more), the normal temperature is 25)
What impressed me it is also the peoples love to cleannes. Yes, not everywhere you will meet people, who are aware of the place they live in.
i also liked the Czech beer! oh, mama, it is extremely cheap!! 3 or 4 times cheaper as in Ukraine and also it is tasty) The only problem is not to get fat)
The prices are quiet average. well, on 400 $ (including rent a flat) it is really possible to live and even to travel, what i am going to do, while it is summer and warm)
My job day finishes at 16.00 , so soon i will go home!) and the next post will be at least tomorrow)
yes! about my job!!!
i work in the middle company, named Bradop! This is the furniture producing company and it is strong and quick developing!!!! most of personell (about 40 people) are young and we have a very good working climate!!!
I am studing the company now and later will develop some marketing connections of company in Ukraine and EU as the company wants to expand and develop more!
O like this work, you know, sometimes people have such feeling, like they everytime dont want to go for work and they push themselves to do it! I am not such a person) I like to go on work !
As the former LCP and now intern want to say , that to my mind there is no good or bad company, there is no good or bad internship, because internship is what you make of it! it completely depends on you only!!!
I am also impressed by the AIESEC in Ostrava - this is for sure one of the strongest committees i know! and they are so nice, the are so much care about the interns!!!!
Just want to thank for all they are doing)
In the next posts i will write about other interns (7 more!!!),which are here from different not only countries, but rather patrs of the Earth! it is so great!!11

well, in conclusion want to say, that most of my fotos i am uploading to http://vkontakte.ru/profile.php?id=1075786
Or reach me by MSN eugene.lopatin@aiesec.net or mobile +420774839804

BYE!!!!!!!!!!

Something Like the first message and simple blah-blah...

DeaR friend!
My name is Eugen Lopatin or just more simple- Cj!
this is my first message on my blog)
this blog was creatred to share my experience on AIESEC internship in Czech Perublic.
Being actively involved in AIESEC for more than 2 years, after finishing my term as LCP of Sevastopol in Ukraine, i decided to complete my AIESEC experience circle and to go for X stage)
My exchange will last for about 6 month, after which i will be on the Heading for the future stage and apply for alumnis... but it is early to speak about it now)
In this blog i will be posting some interesting information about my life in this country, AIESEC, my travellings and just my thoughts, my fotos)
Dont blame for mistakes, english is not my original language though)
in some time there will be the 2d message)