My job is everything but boring:
Today´s To Do list: Answer emails, write an article and fix some pictures for Transit, check a report, write several official letter, pick congress documents at the printing house, send out the documents, search for funds, design the Active Newsletter, asnwer some more emails, finish an application ( a short one), consult volunteers, search for people for different events in different countries, talk to board members and I am sure I have forgotten smth.
The seminar was great. It worked like an inspiration pill for me. Made me think a lot about Active and its future. What do we want. How do we want to work. What is our vision. What are our perspectives.
We have talked a lot about today´s trends. What are the motivations to become a member of an organisation? Why to be a volunteer (not only EVS volunteer but in general involved in an organisation without receiving salary)? How to recruit? For how long do we keep out members? Is it good or bad? Should we be more flexible and more anticipative or should we try to keep at least smth in society without a change?
I have heard stories about creation of one of the biggest music festivals in Sweden, about football cup that hosts 50 000 players a year, about dreams come true. We can reach a lot if we know what we want. And we can be little bit naive and weird. Those things usually help to create something huge.
I have finally finalized all the documents for the Congress. I am holding the prototype in my hands hoping that everything is done as it is supposed to be done, leaving the copy up to the destiny and the printing house. So now it is just to turn off the computer and leave the office cause I have to prepare myself for a birthday party and pack for a 3 days long seminar where we will discuss young peoples participation and volunteering in non governmental organisations. Very nice topic!
This was Dante´s day. I took him to a vet cause he has had problems with his paws. He was chewing them too much. So now he got checked, he has his claws cut, got vaccinations, a shoe, a spray and some antibiotics against eczema. So now I will follow all the vets advices and Dante will be totally well =)
Sometimes it is good to experience a fall to understand that one is able to get up and go on. I rollerskate a lot. I think I was a bit talented 
cause I learnt to rollerskate pretty fast without any falls. I learnt to break and I could do some small jumps and for a very long time I did not have an experience with falling on rollerskates. It was good and bad. The good thing was that it did not hurt =) but the bad thing was that I did not know whether I was able to manage a fall and how would it feel to fall. So I was always a bit worried. Untill one day, when I managed to fall. It was a really weird fall that happen all of a sudden. I did not see it coming. But then I raised up and continued rollerskating. I found out that I could.
Recently I have experienced another fall in life. And it makes me free in a way and opens new doors. So eventhough the current life would be very nice and comfortable without the fall, I can make it even better after I raise up again =)
35 slovaks registered to the summer camp =) Makes me happy =)
Slovaks just approved a law that forbids youth under 15 to be at disco clubs and pubs after 21.00 without their parents. The reason is high alcohol consumption by this group. Makes me very happy. Of course there is discussion about how the law will be actually implemented and followed but still…my greetings to those who proposed this law. NOM will send them post card for sure =)
Yes I can confirm that. I love handball. And after two days of 2,5 hour trainings with our great great new coaches, my muscles hurt.
I believe this is not the revolutionary self refelctive question, but it came up yesterday again so I have dedicated some thinking to it.
So why do I (!) write blog?
Since I was a little child I used to like people very easily. It did not have to be my friends neccessarly. After a short talk or meeting, some people just got stuck in my heart. I did not use to express it by words. I never came to a person and said: listen, I like you! But I would bring blue from the sky for these people. Sometimes I drew a picture for them or wrote a short note (almost like a blue from the sky, isn´t it..hihi). That was my way of expressing feelings. I have changed of course. I also express it by words nowadays. But I use the blog also. And if there is a message for someone, the someone will find out =)
The second reason is about expressing opinion. I learnt to state my opinion through the blog. To formulate my thoughts. So it is kind of practicing for me =)
I think that I started writing the blog when I did not have many people around me. So the things I would tell my parents directly after coming home from somewhere (some new experience, thought, impression), I wrote in my blog instead. And it is still like that. I write often when I am alone (Like now in Germany. Just please notice that there is difference between alone and lonely =)
Sometimes I just have fun in the blog, just to entertain a bit. Publishing funny pics of Dante (and Maik), or quoting smth/someone. And since I know approximately (!) who reads my blog, the jokes are often directed to certain people. If the others have fun as well, even better =)
I believe there are more reasons. But right now this is it since I have to pack, run and check out from the hotel.
…it´s pretty difficult for me to be patient with facebook. I go there from time to time. To answer some emails or to see how some friends are doing but maximum I do there is that I change the information on what I am currently doing, I poke back Kadri, eventually answer an email and since all these activities go so slowly..I am done pretty fast. That actually prevents me from being facebook addicted. So thank you for that =)
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