4.Y.i.K.

It's been a while since I wrote the last time… actually more than one year and it's been a busy, busy year. This note today is an anniversary note for celebrating four years in Kassel. The fact that I did not manage to write it on the anniversary day of October 1st shows how awesome that day and weekend has been :)

When I started thinking about what I want to write, I realized I did not have a story to tell or an experience to share … it's more of reflection and insight. I thought about how many things I've learned since I am here and how much I have changed (in thinking, in attitude, in aims and aspirations) and also how many parts of the old me I have lost. One of the recent achievements would be the degree I earned last winter (one that I can put next to my name, but not yet in my ID :P), in addition to all knowledge and skills I acquired in the area I specialized for, all the people around the world I am connected to and the beautiful lifelong friendships we built. In the same time I feel like losing more and more of my connections back home, to the people I dreamed of changing the world with, to the places I once thought would be my home and to the aims and aspirations I came to Kassel with four years ago.

Here I found people I can work with but not yet found the environment that gives me the necessary inspiration and motivation to really succeed in what I am good at. I learned that my current main job is not my dream job, but that I find from time to time jobs I dreamed of doing. I learned that internationalization and international mobility might be good for the system but I don't like to have people leaving all the time. I learned that sometimes we can't change everything around us, and then we need to change something inside us.

I did not learn though how to work in a factory, how to obey, how to take a destructive feedback and how to lower my expectations (on me and on the others).

And I also learned that you need to be very careful what you wish for, because it becomes reality!

I see you!

Despre cei mai tari 1%

Mi s-au intamplat multe lucruri minunate in ultimul timp dar am inteles ca toate se leaga, mai ales dupa ce i-am vazut pe Vlady si pe Paul la TV.

Nu pot sa descriu in cuvinte ce am simtit in timp ce ma uitam la emisiune, dar din cate imi amintesc, a fost mandrie, bucurie, entuziasm, pasiune si putina frustrare in acelasi timp. Sunt mandra de ei si ma bucur pentru ei si pentru ce valori se gasec in societatea romanesca. Am simtit pasiunea care se gaseste in spatele cuvintelor si pasiunea pentru ceea ce fac. Pe de alta parte eram putin frustrata, pentru ca baietii astia ridica standardele la un nivel foarte inalt, care mie imi dau impresia ca stau pe loc, dar si pentru ca am impresia ca sunt prea departe de intamplarile reale.

Ma identific cu 80% din ceea ce au spus ei, prin experientele avute, prin tariri si prin visele si planurile mele de viata.

Ceea ce am vazut si auzit ma indruma sa fac, printre altele, urmatoarea analiza:

Mediul asociativ studentesc din Romania este foarte valoros si mai bine dezvoltat decat in multe tari Europene. Studentii din ONGS-uri in Romania sunt mai proactivi, mai dornici sa invete, mai deschisi spre nou, mai responsabili si mai centrati pe viitor.

Tot mai des, competentele cerute la majoritatea locurilor de munca (sociale, de organizare, uneori chiar si profesionale etc.) nu se invata in universitate sau nu sunt cuprinse in educatia formala. Scrisesem intr-un post anterior - eu am invatat 90% din ceea ce stiu sa fac in organizatiile studentesti in care am activat. Si datorita acelor experiente am ajuns sa fac ceea ce imi place sa fac cel mai mult: educatie. Am prieteni pentru toata viata si am vise care imi dau energie si putere in fiecare zi.

S-a evitat putin discutia studentilor care pleaca din tara si cred ca e foarte bine ca Vlady s-a concentrat pe acei studenti care "isi dovedesc in fiecare zi ca se poate" (Doamne, cat mi-a placut asta!). Eu am avut emotii cand Eli a pus intrebarea respectiva si cred urmatorul lucru: studentii astia din ONGS-uri invata sa aiba scopuri foarte clare in viata, sunt responsabili pentru deciziile pe care le iau si sunt convinsi, indiferent daca pleca sau raman, de unde vor sa ajunga in viata (si aici nu ma refer la o destinatie geografica). Andi, Mariana, Cornelia, Stefania, voi ce credeti?

Va invit sa urmariti emisiunea Business Responsibility, iar de la minutul 12 pe Vlady si pe Paul de la CROS - Centrul de Resurse pentru Organizatii Studentesti:

Cat de frumos!

Title is missing today

Don't want to talk about loneliness or sadness... it's not something nice girls should talk about. This are just feelings that come and go... and go... and go!
My payback for all is love, happiness and peace! (Anything else ... is bad for the skin )

for everybody who feels like dancing:



Thanx Andi for the "dancing"