My new job and whatever else has happened to me :)

Hello-hello!
I'm finally back to my blog.
So, it's already almost 3 weeks since I started working in Synocus Oy, a middle-sized Finnish management consulting company (I'm writing this, coz that's the most popular question I've heard recently. Of course, most popular after: so where are you from actually? ...stan?! Pakistan?). It's all new for me and challenging, though very interesting. And ppl even try to recall those words they know in Russian :) And I'm grateful to AIESEC for those so many practical skills and things I've been involved to and which are extremely useful for me now.

At the same time my AIESEC life continues (I'm now in the EB here). But it's definitely different. Maybe I've become more realistic, or just grew too old in AIESEC, but those things simply don't touch me anymore as they used to (and it's not a demotivation period, just a totally different viewpoint). For example, last weekend we had a Functional Weekend (a planning camp for functional VPs, etc). It was good and the people were great, but somehow I could barely overcome boredom at some points. And that was not because the sessions were not prepared, or whatever else external factor: just a feeling a repetition - almost the same first in my LC, then in Ukraine, then now. And somehow I feel that in the end, those things are marginal - the most important thing is the JFDI part.

Positive stuff? Lots of it. Saw "Sex and the City. The Movie" a couple of days ago. Wouldn't call it the best movie I've ever seen and probably wouldn't spend 2.5 hrs watching it once more, but that was fun. And that was the most girlish movie hall I've ever seen in my life :)

Then, yesterday, they finally called me from the Finnish Courses. It has been on the waiting list, but now I'm in. Very-very happy :) Actually, I'm in a quite multilingual community these days: a mixture of Finnish, Swedish and English at work and lots of Russian at home (I have a Russian flat mate now and 2 more of her friends are visiting her at the moment) with some French tv5 broadcasting occasionally.

And it's also a partying season. Janne, our VP ER, has his BDay party yesterday and we had a great celebration with his closest friends in his house in Espoo. That was magnificent. And the food... staying there till the next celebration sounded like a reasonable idea ;). Saturday is the Midsummer Day or Juhannus in Finnish after St. John the Baptist, is the beginning of the vacation season in the country. Everyone is escaping from cities to their summer cottages starting from Thursday afternoon. Besides, it seems to be a marriage season around the globe: several of the people I know will be getting married soon or have just married.

As for some nasty stuff: I had surgery today in the morning and the diagnosis is that the tooth cannot be saved. Which means I'll need to get a protesis or implantant (the latter is not sure, coz I may not have even enough bone left to implant anything). The whole ceremony will start from the fall, once my current wound will heal after the surgery. And it will cost me several thousands :(
... C'est la vie