Where is the B'Day Cake :-)

To Dearest Andrey,

" Z dnem narodjennia! "

Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns!!!
My very BEST wishes on this special day Ciccio ;)
Hope to see you soon, and looking forward to hitting the town for some troubles!

Hugs,
Faro

PS. I hope I remembered the date correctly (99% I think I am right ) - Anyone can confirm please?

Since it's about sharing ...

... then you have to try this http://www.pandora.com/
I hope you'll find it useful, if you cannot listen to your favorite radio because of firewalls, as it happens in my case.

Ahoi,

As I noticed some activity here, I thought it might be a good idea for me to drop some lines too, although I’m not having the most adventurous or interesting time nowadays as some of us J Prague is a great place during the summer, but in the winter I’m not sure about it. I’m waiting for the Christmas markets to smell the hot wine and smoked ham around – sorry for vegetarian readers – maybe this will make a difference.

Meanwhile I decided to escape from here for a weekend and since some ppl are going to Budapest, I’m joining them and taking the chance to visit our Hungarian friends and try out some palinka or Tokay from the source J Anyone wanna join? I’m going in almost 2 weeks, the weekend 2-3 December and Zsombor might have some extra space to place your sleeping bags.

As for later on, holidays are coming and I’m looking forward for the Christmas and also for the New Years Eve, when I’m planning to take our dear Faro’s invitation and join in for a great time together ;)

By then is still more to blog, but for now I’m heading to watch Steaua Bucharest against Dinamo Kiev.

Andrey, where are you? This would have been good to see it together, but I’m sure you have a great time these days. May the best win ;)

Even in winter wish you all sunny days

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Aloha Dear Ones :-)

I am very glad to read the new posts and comments in the blog.I hope and wish everyone is doing great ;)
As you might know I was away for a long weekend to Malta and it was just too nice to be true... I needed a week to recover :-) Well, apart from the so long waited 'Date', the weather in Malta was just fantastic, sunny, warm and yes swimming time (Golden Bay - Zsombor, I am sure you remember that :)) and there were some nice changes around, like waterfront Valleta, it was just a nice dining place, or even for a long walk along the seaside, Mdina lightnings were fabulous, and some roundabouts decorated with some more greenery.
Well, maybe I should not complain so much since in Sweden this year we have had just a beautiful weather. There have been really nice days - it's true, believe you me. Like today for example I went for a long walk in the forest, and eventually I am just falling in love with Sweden day by day - is this the end of my stay? - for I always fall in love (being people or places) in separation moments.. hmm.. may be it's time to stand up and take the right decision ;) it's up to you AIESEC says, and it's sooo true :)
Anyhow, apart from the short break which I so much needed, now I am back to studies and it really is a long way until I finish, quite a lot to do. Meanwhile, I have started to think about Xmas and New Year celebrations since I won't be alone, but I will have some dear guests on New Year's eve- and THIS IS GREAT!! I know Albania is not may be the best place, where things work just fine, but hey it's time for adventures and I am sure the nicest of people will be around :-)
Well, I finally started aerobic classes and got a full month card so I will use the gym as well. I so much needed, after yesterday's class ajajaj- my muscles today!!!
Here goes a picture taken in Malta, so you won't forget your Ugly Duckling ;)

Have a nice week, and all the very best from your north bugger reporter,
Faro, xx

class reunion

We had a meeting with elementary school classmates yesterday... It was really pleaseant, as this was the firts we had, so with several people i haven't met since i left the school. Unfortunatelly around half of the gang was missing, and some other had to leave quite early (children were waiting at home); but the mood was just great. The aggregated result is plenty of spouses and children (some have already two), also a divorce (in progress), some good job, some bad, ... - actually nothing very surprising. Still, it was interesting, there were some classmates about whom i could not tell twelve years ago how they would manage in life... Now i wonder what about us: what the ex cycore-trainees will do in ten years time? In some cases i think we can have a good guess, but there are some people in the team who can cause surprises... So what is your opinion? Shall we play fortune-telling? If you feel like, just write some lines about each other... (I think it's better than the aiesecer goal-setting stuff: "imagine yourself in two years time from now" - it's much more fun making up stories about others ;) )
After dinner and chatting we went for dancing salsa... You can imagine our mode if i tell that even i tried it - in the last five years i think i danced four times (on a boat trip with Susi, salsa with Faro, studying folk dance in a nation in Uppsala, and now - if you wanted to add one more case you are wrong: headbanging is not a dance :) ). And that's why i sent my question, Faro: although girls like to teach dancing too, they prefer experts as partner...

Norway fun

Hei hei!

Been a long time since I wrote on the blog. Thanks captain Faro for keeping the spirit up and for encouraging people to share their experiences!

Well this weekend I have been to an AIESEC conference in Bergen, great place to visit. After so many conferences, I felt hit with a little deja-vu, but it was still fun and I managed to learn new things. People here requested "Noi pictures" so here they are: http://new.photos.yahoo.com/alex_stanoi/albums/ . There are also other pictures there, like from another conference a few weeks ago.

What can I say about the people... Many trainees in Norway, most of them from Opera. But they don't live in a "trainees paradise" like we did. :) It felt like every trainee was for himself, even the trainees working in the same company didn't know each other too good. I met a Romanian trainee living in Bergen, and so Romania was represented by the most trainees in the conference.

The pictures will speak better of how the people like to have fun. (you have to use the < > links as there are more than one page of pictures...)

Speaking of deja-vu, here are some examples:
- "Who rocks the house?" from the Swedish delegation
- Olga from Russia (not the same as the one in Stockholm, remember her? :)

The theme party of the conference was that you have to dress with something that begins with "P", guess how was I dressed up? :)

Well that's about it for now. More information will be given on a need-to-know basis. Until then, keep in touch and "share your information" (as the motto of my company says).

Ha en fin dag og lykke til!

Alex.