March 9th, 2009
(9 Votes)
One hundred posts ago I started blogging here “the the place where I lay down my thoughts, where I shared my experiences gathered passing trough this voyage called life”. The day it all began was April 12 2005. I started blogging to keep my friends updated during the time I was in the Netherlands as an intern in AIESEC International. It was easier to share my experience than everything else out there but I can’t say this was entirely my idea. I got inspired by Arthur, and I still am when I read some of his posts. He’s one of the few who managed to leave a mark on my life and I’m forever grateful for that.
Almost 4 years, 1426 days, 19271 visits, 100 posts and 202 comments later I must say that I’ve changed a bit since this journey began, well who wouldn’t? I’m all grown up now (sad / smiley face). These 4 years have been a hell of a ride … I’ve had my share of good and bad, made new friends and became disconnected from others, I’ve traveled, I’ve teached, I’ve messed up, I’ve inspired, I’ve learned new things, I’ve made some people happy and I’ve also made some people sad. This is all part of this thing called life.
August 25th, 2008
(5 Votes)
Yes, it’s true, my hair color has changed: it’s blond now. Well kinda’. It’s more of a greenish blond. I think I mentioned my friend, Soso the hair stylist, in an earlier post. Well he needed me again and this time it was a lot easier to say yes. I just was damn curious … sorry :).
June 23rd, 2008
(5 Votes)
Something’s changed. And this time I don’t mean something deep, but straightforward … I look differently :). Why is that? Well there’s a story behind it:
One day as I was sitting at my desk I received a call from a friend of mine, who happens to be a hair stylist. He needed someone (I don’t know why that someone has to be always me!) to work on for a show and the deadline was 5 days away. And I found myself saying “Yes” for no obvious reasons … Didn’t knew what I was putting myself into. The process was the most interesting experience tough. I never knew how much work goes into such a thing, didn’t know how difficult it is to get the color you want, the glow, that you need some math, some color knowledge and some drawing skills to pull this out. The end result you see bellow took about 7 hours.
December 22nd, 2007
(7 Votes)
Photo by Donna
Today I want to talk about diversity. In the last 6 years I had the chance to experience it first hand. A trend that I’ve been noticing lately happening around me, is that people take diversity for granted or do not really understand it. For many people diversity lies in the color of the skin, speech, culture or in names of exotic countries they’ve never heard of.
There’s more in embracing diversity than accepting one’s skin color, culture or speech. It’s also about being open to different ideas and ways of thinking. I believe diversity lies in thought, in the way people come up with their ideas, in the way they express themselves, in accepting the fact that no two people are alike.
August 14th, 2007
(5 Votes)
I’ve had some time to think lately. In one of the evenings back in Rotterdam as me and Kiks were walking back home, Kiks spoke about his experience. He gave me a different perspective of my life, of me and AIESEC.
I’ve been in AIESEC for six years, six years of my life. I was struggling so hard to make a difference, to leave a mark of my passage. In the end my efforts seemed so fruitless, witnessing all my work, everything I created being erased. Becoming nothing. Dust. For a while I was so very angry with myself, with the others. I realized that my time was gone and that right now there was so little I could do, to fix things.
What I didn’t get is that it didn’t matter … what guarantee do I have that AIESEC Sibiu will still be here in 5 years? Or that AIESEC as an organization will still be around in 50 years? All that hard work, all these efforts and sacrifice of generations simply won’t matter.
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