Today's nice moments

Finally I learned more about Advanced therapies. I had to write some paper summarizing the problem for my boss. Tomorrow he organises a press conference in Slovakia and he will distribute my paper - my work - to all journalists :-)) In addition, he told me that it is well done and that he did not count on me to do it so fast :-))

I attended my first reception here in EP. Good wine and cake.

When I came home, great pancakes were made for meeeeeee :-)) There is young couple staying in the house till Friday and they had "pancake party" and prepared some for me. Oh, it was so great :-))

Very personel one - do not read

Tuve que escribir este blog. De repente les parece que estoy deprimida. Pero no es asi. Es solo que me siento muy descontenta con mi misma (en todos los aspectos). Ademas hay tantos pensamientos en mi mente que tengo que dejarlos salir de alli.

Siempre digo que esos seis meses en Peru eran lo mejor de mi vida hasta hoy dia. Esto no significa que no habian momentos tristes. Con esto quiero decir que aprendi muchisimo sobre mi misma. Cada dia aprendi como ser una persona mejor, como ayudar a otras personas, estar abierta y decir a mis personas queridas que les quiero muchisimo ... Y esto me parecio lo mas importante. Dije "te quiero" a mi papá, dije a Tino lo que senti, y siempre, pero de verdad siempre, mis amigos me dijeron lo que pensaban. Estos son stimulos tan importantes. Extrano tantas cosas.

Ahora veo lo que pasa conmigo. Y no me gusta. Queria que la gente piense que todo se pasa bien. Pero soy muy mala actriz y creo que otros lo sienten muy bien. De vez en cuando queria separarme de todos, pero de otro lado necesitaria alguien en mi lado a quien podria decir todo, una persona que me apoyaria, alguien para compartir.

Me siento muy débil, porque sé que necesito muchisimo alguien para apoyarme. De repente es normal. Pero de otra lado, no seria mas facil, si estoy totalmente independiente? Pero soy solo hombre normal :-)

Feeling great sometimes

I am finishing my third week here. ...I met many nice people, had many great moments, saw many new and wonderful places, got to know how it works in politics (a bit), have a bit clearer idea about my future. And the best thing about it is that I still have two months and half to enjoy Brussels :-)

Feeling useless sometimes

I am finishing my third week here. What have I learnt???? ...order flight tickets? ...exchange toner in the printer? ...go to the post office? ...send fax? ...get paper for the printer? ...diplomatically answer thousands of emails every day? ...organise my boss' calender? order taxi? ...??

Trip to Antwerpen

On Sunday we decided to make a trip to Antwerpen.
Attendance: Anka, Ivana, Matjaš (guy from Slovenia working in the office of Mr Peterle, MEP) and me.

First train that we were supposed to take was cancelled. Second train was half an hour late :-)) In addition, there was some other train coming before ours. We got on thinking it is ours. Then somebody said: "This is not the right one, get off quickly!!!" Matjaš managed to get off, but none of us did not. The door was already blocked. We told him good bye through the window hoping to get off on the next station :-)) Luckily, we were having fun and finally, we all met in the right train heading to Antwerpen.

• we visited Museum of Diamonds (really nice one - plenty of information, interesting exhibition)
• we ate in one pizzeria, where all servers pretended to be Italian (but they were really far from being Italian)
• we walked around the city - great town hall with flags of all EU members, nice fountain in the middle of the main square, river reminding me of Danube, small castle and nice streets

For me the most interesting part was Jewish quarter. There were many orthodox Jewish walking in the streets. I had impression to be in an old movie - all of them had this typical, for me old-fashion clothes, beards and hats. Even their bicycles seemed to be from old movie. It is really interesting to see so many different cultures here - people from Africa, India, Arabs, Jewish. And all of them live in their communities so different one from another. In their way of life. In peace.

Beer news

Two more types of beer ==> total: 6 different types of beer :-)

Unfortunately, I was not making notes what kind of beer I had already tried. I remember several glasses of Blanche, Kriek, Chimay, Fruit défendu etc.

It is weird, cause when I tried Kriek for the first time, I loved it. Then next time, we ordered some other brand of Kriek and it was so bitter, not good at all. So even if it is the same type, it still can have totally different taste.

I found out that it is possible to have also big beer (big beer is normal beer in Prague, and normal beer here is sometimes even smaller than small beer in Prague).

One morning in Brussels

On my short walk in Parc du Cinquantenaire I realised that Brussels could be really nice place to live.

• neither too big, nor to small
• with nice parks and places to go for a walk
• with quite a lot of theaters and cinemas
• cultural mix of people
• nice historical center
• great chocolate
• so many different types of beer

I have some time left to find out more about other advantages and potential disadvantages.