August 11th, 2008
(3 Votes)
Last month I was asked by Nico, a good friend of mine to deliver a training at the Train the Trainers conference held in a village near Pitesti. This is kinda’ sorta’ the first time ever since I’m an Alumnus to be an external at a national AIESEC conference, so I was quite surprised … in a good way :D.
I must say they did everything right in the way they handled me … a month in advance notice, numerous reminders and documents explaining the agenda, objectives, transportation, etc. I’m usually very hard to please regarding these things. Well believe me I could not say a bad word, not one, regarding the whole process from start to end. I quite honestly have never been better handled since I’ve became an Alumnus. It reminded me of an older similar experience.
I’ve had two things to prepare, a “Video’s in presentations” learning circle and a “Presentation skills” training. I knew I had to prepare these trainings as people from Dale Carnegie, real good trainers would be delivering there and I felt I had to live up to the expectations. It felt really good doing research and preparing my trainings, the Power Point actually Keynote[1] presentation. It was reminding me of the old times :), nights spent preparing, the joy of delivering, the satisfaction of doing a good job.
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July 7th, 2008
(4 Votes)
Hey :)
I’m trying to keep up but I’m in an extremely busy period … so bare with me.
Not so long ago I’ve been invited to a friend’s birthday (Daniel). I figured it will be a dull Sunday afternoon and therefore I managed to arrive late :). His father has built a house and an artificial lake with all kinds of fishes lurking inside a few km of Sibiu right near the E81 European road. If you don’t know what to look for you can easily drive by and never notice it. The lake is behind an earth wall protecting it from the constant noise just a hundred meters away.
When I made the first 20m off the main road I was getting mixed feelings about the place … i wasn’t going to stick around for long … what could I possibly do here in the middle of nowhere? After just 50 more meters my perspective changed when taking a steep left turn, the an incredible view unveiled itself in front of me. As you can see from the pictures bellow, the place is amazing, just like a small corner of paradise, in the most unlikely place a hundred meters of a busy road. After that last step, no noise was getting trough … peace of mind, quiet.
July 3rd, 2008
(5 Votes)
Hey Guys,
A friend of mine woke up one morning at 5 o’clock and while browsing his blog, trying to kill some time, he had an idea. In the next moment he started to send out e-mails … long story short, we want to organize a meeting for the bloggers in Sibiu. We’ll start as a small group next Friday and see where we go from there. Eduard, wrote his own post about this meeting here.
If you want to join us, just leave a comment on Eduard’s Blog, or to this post. The meeting will take place Friday, on the 11th of July, 19:00, in Sibiu, Amber Cafe in the Big Square.
The participants that have confirmed till now are:
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January 16th, 2008
(7 Votes)
I wanted to post this a long time ago, but until now I didn’t get myself to do it. In the last 26 years, 4 months, 1 day and few hours, my life on this earth, I got to meet a lot of different people. Tall, short, slim, fat, younger, older, friendly, mean, good, bad. From all these people I was lucky enough to connect with some of them, who later became my good friends. I somehow managed to get around the craziest people around.
I went to extreme lengths to get pictures featuring them in some of their craziest moments …
December 14th, 2007
(5 Votes)
Hey guys,
I never missed an LTS[1] but this year it was really close. I’m glad I didn’t. It took some skill to convince my brother to drive 200km :). The drive there was nerve wreaking because of the poor quality of the road, tight turns and icy road. We arrived in the evening right in time for the Alumni session. I don’t think we’ve been so many ever. We talked from the heart about old times about the beginnings, challenges and advice. We definitely did our magic there. Afterwards all of us went to find a suitable place to try out the beautiful layer of snow that had just fallen down that evening and spent 3 good hours, riding downhill on plastic bags, banners or whatever we could get :).
- AIESEC Sibiu & Ploiesti Newie Preparation Conference. [»]
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