Hanukia Bait...

...or how to do anything else than working on your project. This time i really didn't have anything important to tell you (beside the pictures i promised from my room) but as the other option was to finally start working on my project for quality management, I chose to put ideas down on the blog. I know, not very productive :)
Oh, and there is another worth-mentioning event! Today i got another package! From my aunt, back in Bucharest:) It makes me feel so good, no matter what it is there. Not to say that i got Salam de sibiu (a special kind of salami), Smoked yellow cheese, zacusca (yummy Romanian dish), jelly (although i already eat here jam and jelly as for all the previous 25 years in a row. And also tea i drink like crazy. Somebody said that they give us so much tea to be able to digest better the untasty food. And to have less stomach aches:) Makes sense:P) So thank you, Rita!
Today we had again the finance class with the great teacher. I know i said it before but I sooo much like how he explains. And we all agree on that. I could stay and listen to him all day long and all the boring book would be so much easier to handle. He is funny but keeps the distance, serious and looks and talks like a real professional. His teaching skills are very developed. And today we had the most difficult session from this semester (from his perspective). Talking about corelation between risk and rate of return, standard deviation, R hat, SML and CAPM. All things i had no idea about till now...wow!
And after that, the class of Resource Planning, in which we negotiated eliminating the exam in favor of presentations of different subjects around the ERP. And here it is where the balagan begun. Most of us don't really understand the topic and what does the teacher expect from us. He gave us individual subjects on which to work. For me, knowing i (teoretically) have knowledge of programming (yea right!) he gave me something that i never heard of before and that till now doesn't make any sense. Anybody willing to enlighten me? It sounds like this: "JCo, Netweaver and MII in MES" :)). Where J comes from Java. Cool, isn't it?:D

Ok, meanwhile Olga came to my room and we talked as usual for like 2 hours so it's already 1 am so I should call it a day. We decided we need some adventure in our life so now i am looking for adventure parks and Cart places around. yee!
So my room. I officially announce that this is my online Hanukia Bait (innauguration of new house). You are all invited, and you didn't even need to bring presents:P This is how it looked when i first came in and dropped my luggage:












All you see is all there was. bed, closet, table little chair and a bath.

And this is how it looks now:

I would say it's much nicer and blue-er:)











And yes, all these pictures i got from mom and sis and the leaves are collected from the LBS campus. But there is a problem with my home. The window doesn't close properly so i get some wind in under it and also the air is very dry. I wake up in the morning with a very dry throat and lips, can't breath and I'm either too cold or too hot. But, besides this, everything is wonderful:) Next time, a picture from outside and towards outside;)

So guten nacht for now...
PS: Please try not to pay too much attention on the layout. I am too tired to play with it. Please accept it as it is. Thank you.
PPS: Today I wrote to the administration that I want to start the sessions of Israeli dancing and Salsa in the campus! Ye! i hope everything works out and there will be a lot of people. So far everybody says they want it very much, but we'll see if they will come. Anyway, I'm excited!
Me really going to sleep now.

snow, stolen hanger,floridita,new sweater auction, security guy...

...and many more happened since we last "talked".
If somebody said that living in a dorm is boring, probably didn't live in ours.:) I will again talk about mails received on our school mailing list. I still consider them funny, although some of the things happening here are not that funny and you get to ask yourself "what the hell is going on?" (this talking about the first e-mail i'll attach). As for the second one, I love (again) people with humor. And guess what? it totally worked! i understood he had about 12 replies from girls. And that he added all of them on facebook too:) Oh, and this guys's favorite color is PINK! really pink!
PS: i am keeping my laudry hanger in my room, i have my food on the window as it's anyway cold enough and i (usually) watch where i'm stepping. So mom, I'm good:)
PPS: Most of the students here, because they receive scolarship, need to do some jobs inside the campus, jobs that give them points in the Work Study Program and they need to reach a certain amount of points. This to explain what he is saying there.

Also, today SNOWED!!! First snow this year! Although i saw snow before in June (!!!) when i was in Austria, but up on the Grossglockner at about 2600 m altitude, not on my window, in the middle of Vienna. The park of the campus looked so nice...Took some pictures of it to see how heavy the snow was.
And not only in snowed but it was a huge snow storm! And as I don't have nor winter jacket, nor boots, nor gloves, nor warm pants (yeap, i don't know what i was carrying in those 45 kilos when i came, i really don't know:) ), i needed to go out and buy all these stuff. So here was I, confronting the heavy wind and snow, but hell I was successful! Managed to buy not only gloves and boots (really nice and matching!) but also...SKI SUIT!!!;)) yeap! I know you will all think: right, she really needed ski suit to wear in the 2 minutes between her room in the dorm and the class, but hey, it was incredibly cheap, looks good and i needed at least the jacket. I am really proud of my aquisitions and the fact that now i'm REALLY ready to go skiiing:) So, this was on the way to buying the stuff:
And here are the things I bought:


But till skiing, going to do my quality management project...or maybe some sleep first...:)
Here are the two e-mails i was talking about and I am waiting for your reactions:)
"Dear all, Usually I would not like to make a big question out of that issue but I really got mad. I went today to pick up my clothes from the laundry room and what I saw was that my hanger ( which by the way has my name on it and is in red and white) was missing and somebody had put my clothes on the washing machine. I don't know how you do it at home but I was personally taught to ask first and then take. So I kindly ask whoever took it to return to to room 1**. Otherwise I will personally find the person and explain him how he should not do it again. And I'm not joking. All the best, R"

Mail no 2:

"Dear Students, Due to the ongoing complaints from my female classmates that I am wearing only boring colours (except for my green sweater), I need 1-2 ladies to go and buy me a new sweater that will save me from the shame. The budget is subject to your negotiation skills, though by now the pressure has grown so dramatically that I am willing to pay up to 40 Euros! There is no specific experience required for this job, except for good taste. This assignment does not officially fall into the Work Study Program, but upon successful completion of the task, I might ask Mrs. K for permission to transfer you a work study point from my account. Whoever replies first, will get the job!"

Oh, and one last thing: I was finally in Floridita, the salsa club, on Thursday night. This after trying with the girls 2 other clubs. It was nice, not too many people so there was enough place to dance, but not so many boys that knew to dance. I was surprised (in a good way:) ) by the amount of black guys there. I was invited to dance and i also went and took a guy to dance. Had fun (and an elbow in my head:) ). The Austrian clubs have this habit of getting photographers inside to picture the people and then to post them onto their website. So we became famous. Here is the picture. The guy was just the security guy, but me and Olga decided he is goodlooking enough to enter in our picture:P

really?? One month??...

...exactly, to the day! I have arrived in Vienna one month ago. One month ago I left Romania to settle in a new country, new place, new occupation, new people. And so far, I can say that the choice is wonderful. As i was telling you before, I enjoy a lot of things going on here, I am (still) enthusiastic (as the dean noticed today), i am still looking forward to meeting even more new people, especially outside of LBS, and i am considering traveling a lot.

One month in which i started managing myself, my own time and activities, my room which has become my home now. For sure there are a lot of things to still do, but hey, only a month:) I am already thinking about what i will be doing the 5 days i will be home in December and how fast i want February to come to go to Israel, to see mom, Sorana and most beautiful baby in the world, Eytan. Him i miss the most! And I am sure the feeling is totally mutual:) This is how he's looking at the camera, knowing that Doda Dana will see this picture.How can't you miss such a baby? But no worries, by february, he will be 7 months so he will be for sure able to have a conversation with me...in German even, as I need to practice it:)
Besides all my family, be it in Israel or Romania, I miss Woody so much...I even dreamed of him one night...sniff sniff...
Now...happier times! TODAY I had a celebration! In the honor of my first month here, I cooked my first real meal! In the community room...And it was heavenly delicious!mmmm....Chicken breast with mushrooms ...yummmmmmmmmyyyy...In the reality it was much better than it looks here. We were laughing that the LBS horrible food regime makes you cherish on an unbelievable scale the little pleasures in life...like the pancake the Indian-that-thinks-he-speaks-Romanian from the kitchen gave me today, specially and only for me :) (i know that from that moment on i have some new enemies:P).
And also...a very important event happened yesterday: I have received a package from mom and sis!!!! You have no idea how i rushed to the offices to take it and how all cocky I was walking back with it to my room! My rich relatives didn't forget the lost daughter that they sent in foreign land!:) Not to say that now I could start some sweets illegal traffic, but also I have Bamba, soup, choco. And a lot of printed pictures (that are already on my wall). And even a bamboo that i will take care of and will grow up to the sky:) I felt so excited yesterday...little things again:)
So now, i have almost finished decorating my room so expect by the end of this week pictures with my sweet home. People say it looks really nice and cosy and i really feel it this way too.

Now, I have moved to Olga's room cause she has windows to the "outside world" which means she can reach some outside wireless networks, (yes, but me, with my inside the campus windows have the advantage of being able to put food on the window. She is not allowed, as it "bothers the neighbours with an unpleasant view!!!?!") so I came here to download a torrent as I miss my Amazing Race sooo much. And with our LBS network downloading illegal torrents is not an option.

Tomorrow evening we are going to visit the Christmas Market. I understood there are different markets but we will go to the main one and will drink also some "vin fiert" (is it mild wine in english?). Anyway, I expect some quality time with colleagues, although they announced that it will be colder and colder, reaching on Sunday the wonderful -5 degrees Celsius air temperature!!!!
Guten nacht lekulam!:)

experiences in LBS dorm...

...can go on and on...Remember the post about the food stolen from the fridge? Because many of you found that funny (as I did), I am posting this too. We found out that it can go beyond it. Only few days passed and we received another email from somebody more mad. And I totally understand him. The fact that, again, this e-mail will probably not help at anything, is even more annoying. What lessons does Dana learn from all these?
Watch your step and don't carry anything with you, especially things that you want to remain in one piece:)
I am adding it below. I didn't answer to the guy because his tone was not funny, even the situation was. I don't know thought why does he consider that he is Dana Scully and Mulder all-in-one, in order to solve this case, but I wish him good luck.


I wonder...only in this dorm things like this happen??

"Dear LBS Students,

Usually, I do not bother myself writing about trivial issues concerning
lost scarves or community rooms, however this is an obvious exception.

November 15, between 11:30pm and midnight I was walking in the corridor
towards the direction of community room 101 when all of a sudden I slipped
on
a disgusting puddle of food (which magically matched the color of the
floor, by the way), obviously cooked by someone on the 1st floor.

As a result, my laptop ( which happened to be in my hands at that time),
fell from a distance of at least 1.5 meters on the stone floor. As it is
right now, the webcam on my computer does not work and some of the computer
drivers are damaged.

If you know who is responsible, please give me his\her name in order to
settle this thing and compensate for the damage. If the person does not
choose to confess, he will be found anyway (sooner or later) and the
consequences will be much worse.

Sometimes it really sickens me to see how little the students on campus care
about each other and about the school.

Peace,

LL"

people can snore in Bratislava...

...and this i know now for sure!:) not that i ever doubted it anyway. But anyway that doesn't make those people less nice, overall...cause in the moment when we're about 15 people that want to sleep and one of us wants to show us how loud he can be, or how small throat he has, for sure he's anything but nice, cute and wonderful:)
Ok, and now when i lost already all those that were bored, i can explain to you, the one that remained, what i am talking about:

It is already 1 week ago that we went to Bratislava for a short weekend in which we were planning on visiting the capital of Slovakia, on partying biiig time and on...finding good cosmetic saloons:) (it is universal known that the prices are much better than in our beloved and expensive Vienna). Well...if you ask me whether these goals were achieved (talking business already:) )...i would say about 53.2%! How did i reach this exact no? I will elaborate:
1. Visiting Bratislava - we, the happy gang, Olga, Luka and myself, decided we'll go before everybody else, to get to visit and to walk around also on Saturday. But what we forgot is that it's winter already and that by 4:30 pm it's already pretty dark. But anyway, we only got in Bratislava at around 5:30 pm...so what sighseeing to do? We learned that walking around in the city center doesn't take more than..30 min, especially when you're totally hungry. So, at my persuasions, we got to eat in a very Slovakian restaurant (not!) called La Rambla...as some of you might know already, it was very spanish, but i enjoyed a lot the salsa music in the background. So much that at a point i went and asked the waiters if there's anybody that dances salsa around here. At their negative answer, I started dancing by myself...lame? nice? cool? i enjoyed myself and this is what's important. (and also Olga and Luka were pretty embarrased with me - but it's ok, as it was only the beginning) Then we walked some more, laughed some more, sang some more, noticed how everything resembles Prague only that Prague is 100 times more beautiful and full of life, found everything closed and headed to the party.
The party all in all was ok, not too bad (good music, on my taste - but this was the problem, the music on my taste = oldies and latino, was not on the tastes of most, so a lot of the LBS people left soon). But going to sleep...that is the interesting part...this is what made all this trip worthy:)) We were told we're going to have a place to sleep, and to bring sleeping bags but if we don't have, we'll be provided with sheets and everything. Only to get there and discover that the place we'll sleep in is at the last floor of this building!
So you can imagine what great test had the organizers in mind: with all the free alcohol...drink as much as you can but after that...it's your business how you reach up there. Should i mention that there was a HUGE hole at every floor, by the stairs?:) fun fun fun. And also, we slept...on the floor...i don't know what is more on the floor than that...sqeezed in between girls (yeap, i know, other were luckier than me:) ) cause we didn't have enough sheets. no mattresses whatsoever anyway(this is why i said that i can fell my BONES!).
and with all these...also the nice guy i told you above...that woke us all up with his snoring...and here i was, the courageous one (cause this guy is by far the best built one among us) going to practically shake him. He stopped for a few minutes but we couldn't sleep anymore and we started laughing so loud and unstoppable that we woke the rest of the people up. But it was fun! These are the things i remember from the whole trip.

In the morning, after sleeping all in all about 3 h, we went visiting the city again, this time with a guide and with a group of about 10 people. Taking pictures in weird positions, drinking hot chocolate, visiting the synagogue, taking the bus back, sleeping in the bus, sleeping in the metro, laughing some more...and this was my last weekend.
Most of the pics i have uploaded here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=83334&l=af573&id=720410940
Ufff...such a long post already...and i wanted to tell u about the Klezmatics show and the Salsa congress on Saturday. But hey, out of all these you will get the idea i am only partying. Which honestly this time would be so far from the truth...really! again studying a lot, but liking the subjects, not having almost any free time in the weekdays but, mom, dad, i'm great!:)

The direct relation between financial crisis and the fridges in our dorm....

....is much easier to spot now than it was before receiving the e-mail that i am attaching below. And you will see why. I laughed so much when i read it that i had to reply to this guy from my dorm. I love when people have good humor and manage to mock stupid situations especially when they can't do anything else. I said to share this with you now, cause the copy+paste actions don't take too much of my time, but other than this, i again want/desire/need/thrive/wish to tell you about my weekend in Bratislava (so much to say) and about the Klezmatics concert on Monday evening (amazing at least) but i literally don't get more than 10 min off school things. really. for example now, i need to make another presentation, as last week, proving this time that "A company is NOT a machine". Last week, as i was telling you, was writing about "A company IS a machine". If i get to do this fast enough, i will for sure write another post about the events mentioned above. For now, enjoy the exchange of e-mails and tell me whether u found it as funny as i did:

Quoting xxx.yyy@lbs.ac.at:

Hello all,

Today I felt the world financial crisis directly. Seems that impoverished from the crisis, a poor student, desperately craving for food took some of my own food from the fridge in community room 123.
Of course, I understand that to sustain his biological existence he or she had to go to this extreme measures. However, I kindly would like to ask the person who did that to bring me back the leftovers from bread and cheese, and in turn, I officially promise to give him half of my food from now on.
Ashamed, I have to admit that some part of me believes that its not about the crisis but about greed, laziness, and misunderstanding of the concept of property. Nevertheless, I would not
let this part prevail over my belief that there are only decent and worthy,young Jewish people in the dormitory.
I guarantee full confidentiality for the student and his social status in our wonderful little community will not be harmed by any means.

And my answer after laughing a lot:

> Loved your message! :)
> this is how i see it (yes, from a mathematical point of view cause this is what i f...ing studied 4 years:))

> the relation between you-the stolen food-the thief- the general public looks like:

> 1. you = empty stomach and without resources = -1,
> 2. stolen food = ate already = 0,
> 3. the thief-not so decent anymore but totally content and full = 1+ (cause we don't count only the actual food but also the increase of his general state of being. and we don't have what to decrease cause that would be the decency and the correctness, which seem are totally 0)
> 4. the general public = 0 (as usual not intervening and being just a regular outside observer, cause the drawbacks of being called a traitor, are bigger than the satisfaction of being called a friend by somebody else)

> So then, which is the impact of your email on the involved factors?
> 1. you= still empty stomach but at least happy u took it out on somebody and even with a good humor = - 0.5
> 2. stolen food remains stolen food =0
> 3. thief= i assume no change whatsoever (hope i'm wrong)
> 4. general public with sense of humor = +9 and others = 0

> So the conclusion? Even though i never step foot in 123 yet (yeap, newcomers), just because u made me smile and get from 0 to 9, u get a share of my cheese when u want (and when i will have bought a new one, cause the one from now got rotten;) )

> Dana
> PS: if there is anything in the mail u don't understand, either
> 1. ask me and i will draw u a scheme :)
> 2. ignore and delete the message:P

Of course the funny guy approached me at dinner telling me that he will make use of that cheese as soon as possible:)

i had so many things to tell you...

...but i am too tired. it's almost 2:30 am, the second night in a row that i am going to sleep at 2 am because i had some school assignments. Does it sound weird for those of you that know me? Me, who was learning for school only in the exam period...well, this doesn't work here. i have so much to read (especially for finance, as i mentioned in a previous post) and some projects and presentations, be them in a group or personal. Some of them are nice, others at least weird, or confusing, to say it nice. But all in all, i am learning a lot of new stuff, i don't know how i lived till now not being curious about so many things, how i passed by them, now words that till now i only knew i heard them once, make sense. And i learned once again, the big difference between a difficult subject, with A LOT of material, but with a great teacher that makes it all look pretty logical and connected and an ok subject, but with a teacher that tries to find the most complicated way of explaining a notion, that we end up being so damn confused. I hope things will clear up later.

Anyway, wanted to write more about how nice autumn is in the campus, how i collected red, yellow, brown, green leaves and put them in books as i used to do back home...how i will wait for them to dry and then put them all over my home's walls...how i went yesterday and studied in the courtyard, among leaves, me and my Winnie the Pooh Caravan pillow and how refreshing that was...how awful the food is here and how much bread, jam, pasta, rice, milk and cereal i eat no matter it's breakfast, lunch or dinner...how in the same time, i just ate (at 1:30 am) some tuna paste with about 5 groupmates in the community room, while talking about the paralell SWOT analysis between LBS and the Granz Facheschule:)...how i'm playing ping pong with boys in the dorm (yes, only with boys, and i am some kind of specimen that people come to check out in the "let me see what a girl can do" idea.:) Well, i don't think i've done so bad yet:) so Cristian camp, i owe it all to you:))...how not even till now i didn't get to the center of Vienna, at least for a little walk...but who's rushing me?...how the accounting teaching sent us a list of cinema movies that he recommends, with a little review and i found it really nice of him...how i'm listening now to a bachata song on Radio Romantic and how i miss dancing Israeli dancing or salsa...but how i will go to the Salsa Congress next week right here, in Vienna...how i am missing...something. i honestly don't know exactly what i miss, or who i miss, or if it's an illusion i miss something...and then again, how busy i am here with things i like and enjoy, that i don't get to miss anything afterall.

This weekend i'm going to Bratislava! there's a big party organized by the Jewish Community and we're a pretty big group from LBS going there (well, why wouldn't be? it's about 1 h distance and there will be free alcohol all night long, so, of course, why not?:D - as for me, it's good i spoke with the bartender and i ordered already some customized Dana's non alcoholic cocktails). For sure i'll do some sightseeing as well.

Yes, everything came in this post pretty messy and unorganized. well, surprising or not, i became more and more organized and tidy in my life and home, so at least in the post to have my old "good" habits:)

I know i still owe you pictures from my room and some stories from the past. They too shall pass away:)
By the way, i would love to hear some comments or questions if you have about everything that is happening here.
Good and nightmares-free night ...

"Vienna hills"...

...or how to make a boring Sunday become a most colorful one...
As i told you last night, today was supposed to be a day of study, rememeber ? (wait, wait, don't ya nod your head already, i ALSO studied, but you'll see that by the end, ok?). And taking into consideration that i went to sleep at about 2 am (as every night), waking up at 12 at noon was not something unrealistic. Although, after what nightmare i had, with me trying to run away from the bad guys, being helped by a friend whose car was going very slow on the highway, and all of this happening inside my appartment in Bucharest (yes even the highway!), i should have waken up much earlier. Anybody eager to interpret my dream? does it mean that i'm already home sick?
Anyway, by the time i was ready to go, i realised i missed not only breakfast but also lunch. But as I wasn't too hungry so that didn't matter. I got a call from a friend of mine living in the dorm (I don't know yet what rule I should apply regarding the people in my stories. Should i give out names? Should i put initials? Should i not mention at all? I, for myself, like writing out the names, but as it's not me to say, i will have to ask for people permission to have their names written in my blog:) ok, at least in the not-so-embarrasing posts:) ) So he was offering to do something cause he's bored. So Dana, the anti-boredom solution came in handy:) like...Mr Proper whistling, but without the musles:) I told him I anyway wanted to play table tennis (cause guess what? I just discovered a ping pong table in the dorm! can't wait! we'll see who can beat me in LBS:) I hope I won't dissapoint the Cristian-Popa Soare training center :P! But, as we couldn't find "matkot" (rackets), we decided to go for a walk as the weather was great.

We didn't have a certain place to go, but in the end, we managed to get in a beautiful area, very pitoresque, on the hills, with lots and lots of vineyards, with colors that went from green to dark red going through yellow, brigh red and brown. The first picture of the post has became my desktop picture.


And think that this was only about 10 min far from my dorm:) How lucky can i still be?
We also met some locals and we were amazed by how friendly people in Austria can be. Really! How helpful, and full of smiles and goodwill always. I really think this is related to a combination between the standard of living (people are not so stressed about the daily life) and the level of civilization. As my friend said, they are YES people. They think how to make out of everything something good, if that good can be achieved.
Anyway, we ate grapes directly from the vineyard, goofed around doing jumps on a not very solid terrain, took pictures, drank 100% natural -me, grape juice, him, some kind of must (between juice and wine) at a lovely peasant restaurant in the middle of the vineyard, played with a German sheperd bred by an Austrian family that got a lot of prizes in Japan dog contests (!?!?:)) ), and we also made it to the wonderful dinner in the campus, consisting of tuna fish, salad and cornflakes with milk, all in all to end one of the nicest days in Vienna so far.

But hey, then where is the studying? And no, i won't come with my "usual" excuses like "studying people in the nature is an interesting and useful thing in life, so this is what i did" but i really came back into my room and did my homework at accounting. See? Dana, Good girl:) And tomorrow i also want to check with the teacher cause i spotted a mistake (on the "teacher, teacher something's wrong there! (sau tovarashu, tovarashu!!!) way :) )

Good night everybody cause tomorrow it's a heavy but nice day!

I left Romania 2 weeks ago...

...and here i am today...

yeap, lucky day that is, 2 posts in a row. what can i do if i need to catch up with the things happening here? i will start with the beginning, since i came and settled in.

First, i haven't felt this lucky in a long time...knowing i am allowed to have only 20 kilograms besides the carry-on, i went to the airport with...are you ready?...45 kg! needless to say that i wasn't so surprised to find out how much exactly i was carrying but believe me, the lady at the check in thought i'm making fun of her. And so here was i, pleeding and begging to be taken on board, with all the luggage in and even without having to pay some incredible fees. The lady at the counter (i would send her a bouquet of flowers if i knew her name:) ) was unbelievable helpful and nice. But she told me she doesn't have too many options, there are the regulations of the company, yada yada. I was like "please please, i am going studying and i have a lot of books to carry and please please please...maybe other passagers don't have the maximmum possible". And i was right. And lucky. exactly behind me there was a family (two parents and a child) and all three of them, yes ALL three of them, had...7 kilos!! Can you believe it? I couldn't...i think they had only socks in there:) but it was great for me.
So this was my first luck.
I'm not going to tell you how i managed with 5 (yes five!) bags and suitcases on the way from the airport to the dorm, just imagine me with all of them on some prety narrow elevator stairs and everything tripping and collapsing. see? Laurel and Hardy (sau Stan si Bran in romana) 2 in one!:)
Lucky me I had Annie here, so for the first night i slept in her room. The next day, i got my own room. MINE! miiineee!!! and here the second luck interfeers: i got a single room!! all alone and only miiine! don't ask me how i managed cause i really didn't do anything special, i just think that coming late sometimes is not necessary a bad thing:)
I will post soon a picture of the room, but i want it to be in the before/after mood so i need some more days to arrange everything in it.
Anyway, i feel good in here, i like buying different stuff for the house (i need to start calling her my home, right?:) ) and for that i went to...where do all people that want to buy cheap do-it-yourself products go? yeap, IKEA! but this needs totally another post as there is too much to say.

About classes: - also a lot to say but to make it short, for now: me likes them!:) for those who know me, that's something surprising, right? well, not really, taking into consideration that i changed the field. and that i can feel the immediate practical sense in everything we talk about. But the names of the courses, some of them, are something...for example, the course for Contemporary Concepts of Organizational Behavior & Management of Change I. For the first week i managed to learn the title of the course...i am on the right way, isn't it? :) Talking about understanding, diagnosing, managing organisational behavior and human resource development. Interesting. For now, the homework is a presentation with the subject "A company is a machine".
Then we have Financial Reporting and Controlling (which is accounting basically, but not the basics of the accounting, if you understand the difference:) ). With this, all the Balance sheets, and Profit-loss sheet and all the calculations, believe me, i have a much higher respect to accountants then i had till now:)
The Interpersonal Dimensions of Leadership is something definetly on my taste. Different types of leaderships, where works what, with who works what, and so on. Already i have scheduled a personal presentation on Dec 22nd.
The Contemporary Concepts of Finance and Investment is something i will have to take care of. I need to catch up a lot as i have no experience whatsoever in finance. A huge book to read (and this is only the start). Already it sounds scary but i'm not letting myself defeated by that.
And for now i will mention only the Personal Assesment course, which by the end of the first two weeks is the winner at the "Nicest and most "I know Dana, I'll have a tailored for her" - course". It is again related to Human Resources, to how to asses the person in front of you, in an interview for example and how to understand which are his/her values, motivations. And for that, we first need to know what drives us in a certain direction. so...self assessment that is, with somebody smarter to interpret everything. I feel i so much needed this kind of assessment or consulting regarding my future carrieer and what are my expectations in life about 7 years ago.
anyway, the time is NOW!

There are other courses as well, but about this...in our next episode:) (don't i sound like Teleenciclopedia?:)

I am open to any comments, questions or reactions whatsoever:) I will be happy to answer to them.
Oh and tomorrow, it's Studying time! I just said it here so i make sure i will do it, otherwise i will be too ashamed to come in front of you with other stories:)

being halloweenic...

...only once a year you can! so why not go for it? this is what i thought and that i why i went crazy!! For sure the imagination didn't overwhelm me this time and i went for the classic devilish look. but with all the Westerns' stereotypes about Romanians, it was anyway matching way too good.
So, i won't tell you all the struggles i had to put the makeup on and how many clothes i tried to end up with this:



















Most of the girls will definitely appreciate the shoes. well, they're not mine, they're 2 numbers bigger but i said that they match way too well (remember the Devil Wears Prada poster?). And there we were, ready to go. And here we start. if you thought going to a party with 4 bulgarians and 1 hungarian is easy, than u would be where i was yesterday: for about 1 hour on the way to the party, forgeting to get off the tram, then walking back to the metro station where we anyway missed the last metro, taking another metro in another direction, walking for about 25 min and then finally taking a cab which dropped us somewhere from where we walked another 10 min to the party:))
And all these, dressed like that:
But, the party was fun, with lots of people dressed up and with a lot of make up on, which made it really fun. besides the house electronic tehno (i never know the difference between all of them, they all sound only like beats -the same rythm all the time, to me). and besides the smoke. and besides broken glass everywhere under your feet. :) but nice people around...at a moment a spotted a nice cute looking guy. i showed him to one of the girls i was with but also told her i think he is gay. he was too cute to be straight. and guess what? when he left the bar...he kissed the guy he was with...:) me and my tastes:)))
on the way back i again experienced the night public transportation, waiting for about 20 min for a night bus which then we changed with 2 other buses and walked some more and eventually, at 5 30 am, i got to sleep:)

As there are a lot of stories to be told since i came, i will come back to them, as promised.
Tonight i am planning to go to Floridita, the salsa club in Vienna. heard it's very crowded in Saturday so i am still undecided.
More scary pics on my facebook account:)