from Maria with laugh

a little bit offtopic: how was it IC 2007, Turkey! we are there!

2008-05-21T12:24:00.000-07:00

2008-04-19T15:30:00.000-07:00

February 2008, Moscow and Ufa

2008-04-13T03:15:00.000-07:00

February comprised of 2 incredible conferences.
First was National Exchange Conference in Ufa, that i worked for a lot as a conference manager.
I gave so much energy to people and received a lot as well. that's an incredible feeling, this energy turnover.
the only one thing taht i didnt have a chance to explore the city at all.
Just airport - host-premeeting-official day-conference train station.
I was hosted by Gusel, the girl that i hosted 2 years ago in my house during Plan-it in st.petersburg.
That was so sweet and nice, her mother was almost offended that i'm vegetarian and moreover i dont eat a lot.
she was always trying to feed me =)
Gusel and Rinat (OCP) are a very nice couple, feat each other so well.
Martin was a chair and he became ill during the conference we worried a lot but we managed that as well.
the only one thing is that the whole MC team came home to Moscow so ill.
we were supposed to have teamdays just after Ufa but we had ONION AND HONEY days.
we just didnt have any possibility to stay in bed coz in 2 days me and Nastya, Aigul were leaving to Macedonia and Katya and Marina -to Turkey.

Also after exams Bora came to Moscow and i was leaving to Macedonia. I missed him a lot and we spent only 2 days together.
We recovered somehow with Nastya and went to International Presidents Meeting to Skopje.

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

2008-04-13T02:25:00.000-07:00

So i came to St.Petersburg in the middle of January and i didnt manage to pass two exams coz i was not simply allowed by professors coz i didnt attend.
So i was nearly to be kicked out of the univercity. solving that problem i was also preparing big National Exchange conference in Ufa, coz i was conference manager, i was "divorcing" with my boyfriend.
But fiends support cant be underestemeted.
At the sam time i was also dealing with the procedures to remake my passport to go abroad coz it was going to be expired.
I managed to pass but i spoiled my diploma that was supposed to be filled in with excellent grades. My choice. i know.
Before leaving to Moscow i also made piercing in 2 ears that i was planning to do long time ago!
Thanks Natasha due to you i did it!

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

NY holidays -snowboarding

2008-04-13T02:00:00.001-07:00

So during NY holidays we went to the North with Lesha, his friends and my brother.
it was an incredible week!
It was quite cold there: -10-15'C.
A small city is surrounded by mountains.
Each morning we went out of the flat at 9 or 10 am and went to the mountains by foot.
if we bacame cold we drank tea with cognak in small wooden houses-cafes.

In 3 pm it's already dark there so it's cool to go down the mountain with lights.
in the evenings we were seating mostly at home, playing games, talking, drinking beer, watching movies. Coz the city is really small it's croweded by tourists like we were so mostly all the small clubs are occupied. Moreover after the whole day of snowboarding yoo are really exhausted.

Once we went to another resert: Lesha, my brother ad me.
it was extremely windy and the mountain was mostly covered by ice rather then by snow.
we reached the half of the mountain and wanted to go down without getting up. but the man convinced us that it would be better on the top.
it was so icy that i could not even stop my desk.
anyway we went to the top.
it was sooooooo beautiful and extremely windy.
we started to go down and understood that almost all the surface is covered either by ice or stones.
To cut the long story short we stocked in the middle of the mountain, quite high when you cant stop your snowboard and there is a steep just 3 metres below. i was scared actually but as i knew my brother is near (he is very very good in snowboarding) i stayed calm, when i got that doesnt know what to do it became worse but i tried to use my self-controle.
eventually everything was ok after 15 different ettempts but the emotions were quite strong.

Another day we also went to the different resort!

wowowoow! i'm so happy even just to remmebr that.
Coz they had a route throught 1 mountain 3 km long and 300 metres wide at some places.
moreover it was quite difficult so almost nobody except several young crazy people like us were there.
GOD! I just remember that the very last time we were going there only Pasha (my brother) and me with the speed 60 km!
and looking at each other.!
As for Lesha we quarreled quite a lot there and reconsiled quite fast. Anyway it was like that more and more frequently.
Eventually at the end of January we broke.
At the date of 1 year anniversary of relationships.
Life is unbelievable if to remmeber how we start and what were the plans.

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

2008-04-13T01:46:00.000-07:00

My dear friends i have not wrote for a long time that makes me be ashamed somehow coz i created the blog to give you updates about my life.
So now i'm coragegous enough to start even from December.
So December 2007. We as AIESEC in Russia have a National Congress at that time and in 2007 in was hosted by Novosibirsk.
By the way it takes you 4 hours by plane to go to Novosibirsk from Moscow it's the same as if you go from Moscow to Paris.
wow, my country is really huuuuuuuuge!
=) Photos from the plane:

This conference is devoted to half-year review of your work, strategic planning and elections.
Elections....
At the very last moment i decided to Aplly not to AIESEC International for non-Corporate manager, but for Member Committee President of AIESEC in Russia.
Elections were very tough i must admit. Eventually i got it

After being elected i had to carry out the intervies for the candidates to the team.
They were very cool and some of them didnt give me a chance to sleep for 2 days lmost coz i was constantly thinking who was a proper candidate. But this choice was also made.
Anula nad Bora were out of Novosibirsk and they supported me so much at that time.
Above all Nastya Markelova, Anya Vinogradova, Albert, Danya -i will never forget your sms i think! That was real support.
ANd of course Rayan! You were tha chair but you helped me personally very much!
And i will not forget also you motivational and insparing speech to mee that you told exactly 4 times coz you became drunk ant the paty!

hahahahhahah, but that's smth really special =))))
That were elections!
We came to Moscow i directly mooved to St.Petersburg to my exams.
My God, i'm so lucky or blessed by God to have such kind of good friends!
Victor was taking care of me like with the child when i came to University.
He took my arm and brought me to all the rooms where i had to pass the test, gave me materials.
Or for instance took my task, sent me to another test and went to the internet to find the answer to the 1st one.
So i passes all the test and to exams for excellent marks.
Then New Year came as well as Lesha came to St.Petersburg.
We spent the holiday together and the 1st of Jnuary we were leaving to Kirovsk with his friends and my brother to do snowboarding coz it's the in the North of Russia.live well
laugh often
love much (c)

it's all about snow

2007-11-18T06:45:00.001-08:00

that is really cold
really cold
i hope i will get used

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

2007-11-17T01:53:00.000-08:00

Eventually I decided to reflect my autumn's journeys on the paper, I.e. In here. Francly speaking i'm going home by the undeground and writing it in my pocket computer. Thank you dad that is really a very practical device. It's hard to start the story coz a long time has passed so the emotions are not that fresh. Anyway it's easy to make a long introduction rather then to start.

So what happened:work in moscow, journey to st.p for my parents' wedding anniversary, flight to kazan being ill for chairing the conference, journey to st.p for the weekend with lesha, going to izhevsk fo faciliating at rec, st.p again.

Let's do one by one.

Working in moscow. That's funny that i'm a person not only without a city (st.p and moscow) now but also a person for 2 flats even in moscow: coz i'm living in mc flat and I lesha's flat :). Therefore there are lots of funny moments happening in both environments. For instance we watched a movie with bora and victor at night. It was motorcyclist's DiarieS. It was in Spanish with english subtitles. So the sound was quite low. Victor fell asleep. And then suddenly he stated to speak romanian very loudly and scared me really ;)

I'm cooking also for lesha. He calls lots of my cuisine results-mexican cuisine. May be, may be. But he likes it tRuly.

Or I can also remember a clea ing party in mc flat. Nastya, bora, marina and me. I remember that day I had a meeting with the UN, then I was invited by IBLF to go to the State Parliament to listen to the meeting of coordination committee of the state project financial literacy. That was really exhausting, 3 hours of uneffective discussion for an aiesecer. So I was like a boiled fish in terms of energy. But nasty, marina and bora were so axtive in cleaning the flat in combination with drinking gin&tonic. I joined. It was funny to clean the floor in the kitchen 6 timescoz it was really dirty. Hahahahaha funny moments from October.

Above all Araz (vp x of AI) came for a visit. There was and exchange meeting with vps from different cities. At the same time thanks to katya and nastya we organized a party for Lesha Nikityk (joined our mc team). It was a nice cozy party with the topic of Harry Potter. I reember me sitting in the corridor on the flor we lesha N, katya, vika from engec-guap and bora drinking beer, telling stupid stories and jokes mixed with the serious thoughts and future plans discussions.

It was also "join 21" joke period.

Niceeeeeeeee. Bora and me were recruiting people to our gang.

Niceeeeeeee.

I also remember me and Araz meeting with alumni: first Dum, then M.Tureckiy. That was quiet different .

Then as I mentioned I went to my parents wedding anniversary to st.petersburg. We call it family day. Nice dinner. It was good that I bought in advance a tie to my father, later on I bought underwear to my mother. So I was equipped in terms of presents for them.

I also met my dear Spagetto! Diego! =))))))))) if you are reading this you to know that i miss you soooooo much dude!

After that visit to st.p I came back to moscow extremely ill. It was monday. And the whole tuesday I was lieing in bed. Lesha even took day off to take care of me :) dear.

And Yulechka+Stas! Thank you for that evening with icecream =)
Miss you.

The problem was that on wednesday's morning I had a flight to kazan. I decided that I had to go anyway.

The fight was at 7.2o am. So we had to the taxi approximately at 4.40. The funny thing was that the taxi was supposed to be in front of the house in 15 min and the service-girl told it was not a problem. But going out of the house I received the call from the driver who asked not to worrry (why should I? I thought). He told that he has a tradition that no one of his clients can be late. When he eventually came he told he was on the other part of moscow when he got that order and the was going with the speed 170 km/hour. He was even stoped by polica and he gave them a bribe (welcome to russia).

And when we were going to the airport we were also like 150-160 km/h. Adventure again.

I came to kazan, still ill. One of my ears was blocked during the flight, so I was a little bit like disabled in kazan. I actually understood what means to be responsible for my own health.

Kazan was full of challenges. Change of lcp, then her illness, few delegates, absence of vptm. But the conference was very nice. Delegates became active very soon, the party was funny (playing consume).

The city is developed and rich. Petrol is petrol. I was living in the center of the city at the begining of Petersburg Street . that really resembles the spirit of St.P somehow =)
As for famous Kazan Kremlin it is really amazing. There is a muslim moscue in front of christian church there. you can make a photo and catch them both! that's wonderful!

I brought a big bag with tatarish food from Kazan. Chack-chak and pies i dont remeber the name of.

after Kazan i stayed in moscow for 2 or 3 days and we went to s.p for a weekend! Lesha convinced me to go =) we came early in the morning and wedecided to have a breakfast in Coffe House. we were drinking coffe near the window, looking on Nevsky avenu and keepinf silence. From time to time i just saying: We are in st.p, right? ahhhhhh, right! cool, yeap? yeaaaaaah! I think everything seem to be quite small after Moscow, righ? Right!

hahahahahhahahahahahha

then moscow again of course! i came at 5 am and at 5 pm i was in the train to Izhevsk with Bora nad Vincent!

Actually REC was simply GREAT and wonderful! that as one of my best conferences ever. one of the best. Poeple were really united, active and intersted. We managed to have mutual atmosphere: mutual fun, mutual serious talks, sensetive moments, learning. Faci team did a good job, we rocked! People were really exited to learn. Above all REC help me to discover myself better, to think soooooooooo much. even till now i'm going crazy because of all these thoughts i'm so happy i got this period.

And thank you Natasha, me dear and the best of the best of the best for ...Just for the fact you are

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

ill

2007-10-16T07:07:00.000-07:00

Yesterday in the train fro St.Petersburg to Moscow i understood that i'm ill.
Truly. And i didnt know what to do.
Coz tomorrow morning i have a plane to Kazan.
I'm eating pills and i feel myself so powerless.
Awful.

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

When the light was off

2007-10-09T00:59:00.000-07:00

At 9 am when i started my work in front of the computer the electricity was swithed off.
I dont know even why i started to make this picture.
Probably because i saw my blocknote with the notes from yesterdays MC meeting, when we were laughing, speaking seriously. But only the half of the team, coz so many of us are in different cities. And i miss you guys
Moreover the most funny thing is that all these photos are OLD. they were made in the beginging of our term
When we've just come

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

morning

2007-10-07T22:46:00.000-07:00

I'm happy in the morning!
Eventually i succeded in getting up with Lesha before he goes to work!
Having breakfast together!
Yeap, i'm happy in the morning

p.s. i like red and green today so much. i want these colours around me
live well
laugh often
love much (c)

Old CD

2007-10-06T11:14:00.000-07:00

I found and old CD. Stas, you made it on 2004. You gave it to me during the NY celebration (2004-05). That contains photos of all of us. Now I miss you soooooo much my friends and it was so cool to find photos of us several years ago. Lesha so this series of photos of me anв was amazed a little bit now. Coz now i look quite different.
That's nice to remeber the emotions and the conversations we had that time.
I miss you so much my dear friends!

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

Old CD

2007-10-06T10:36:00.000-07:00

Autumn evening

2007-10-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

Today i understood that those autumn that i like so much is over.
It was bright and warm outside, it was something between the memories about the incredible summer and expectations of windy autumn that will bring smth unpredictable as well.

That feeling was warm coz i was grateful to the nature for those moments that we spent in a park, for those smell of leaves we could feel and those photos we made, for those photos that lots of my friends put as picture to facebook, msn, blog.

those pics are yellow and orange, they are so warm.

Moreover those understanding was
added by
the slight feeling of regret.
As always i thought there would be time
to go somewhere and enjoy that weather,
there were so many things to be done.

There will be no period when i will have
enough time for everything.

There is al ways a choice .

2007-09-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

looking for time

2007-09-26T14:02:00.000-07:00

I have so many things to start. I say to myself i have no time, obviously there will be no time in my life when i will have plenty of opportunities and time for all of them.
I have to do smth with it.
imroving frensh, learning spanish, printing photos for the photoframes, finding new mobile, drawing, going to my grannies, dance classes, coming home for the weekend, reading books in economics.

2007-09-26T04:15:00.000-07:00

I've just understood that the plan for October-middle of December
looks like this:
Moscow-Kazan-Moscow-St.Petersburg-Moscow-Izhevsk-Moscow-
Novosibirsk-Moscow--St.Petersburg-Moscow
That's not that bad, yeap?
Trains-Trains

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

Psychological test showed

2007-09-26T02:37:00.000-07:00

I got the psychological test result
I'm Extreverted Initiative Feeling Judging personality = "The Portrait of the Teacher Idealist".
The "Teachers" are found in no more than 2 or 3 percent of the population.

ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. Many ENFJs have tremendous power to manipulate others with their phenomenal interpersonal skills and unique salesmanship. But it's usually not meant as manipulation -- ENFJs generally believe in their dreams, and see themselves as helpers and enablers, which they usually are.

ENFJs are global learners. They see the big picture. The ENFJs focus is expansive. Some can juggle an amazing number of responsibilities or projects simultaneously. Many ENFJs have tremendous entrepreneurial ability.

Teachers value harmonious human relations about all else, can handle people with charm and concern, and are usually popular wherever they are.

NFJs know and appreciate people. They are apt to neglect themselves and their own needs for the needs of others. They have thinner psychological boundaries than most, and are at risk for being hurt or even abused by less sensitive people. ENFJs often take on more of the burdens of others than they can bear.

Teachers Idealists expect the very best of those around them, and this expectation, usually expressed as enthusiastic encouragement, motivates action in others and the desire to live up to their expectations. Teachers have the charming characteristic of taking for granted that their expectations will be met, their implicit commands obeyed, never doubting that people will want to do what they suggest. And, more often than not, people do, because this type has extraordinary charisma.

If you want as well http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

2007-09-18T15:21:00.000-07:00

My parents are great. I understood it. I got it eventually. I knew it before but today i would say i realized it somehow different. I got a new feeling just because yesterday they came home from their journey and today i saw their photos. Tomorrow i'm leaving for Moscow where i work currently. It's 2.29 am and i still look through their photos.
They are so cool. I value these photos so much.\

My mom is sooooo beautiful.
Dad made approximately 200 photos of her only =)

My father is funny even when he is serious.
They are so independent during these holidays.
And i want this message to be here just to remind me about the feeling i have now.

Mohito party

2007-09-16T09:50:00.000-07:00

I miss my friends extremely in this period of my life. Working in Moscow i have to face the problem that i'm not able to see them frequently (they are in St.Petersburg).
The ones that i'm talking about now.
Now I'm at home for several days.
This week granted me lots of meetings with friends.
But one of the best events of my week was MOHITO PARTY that i organised in my flat!
It was so warm and funny.
Dinner+Martini, Laughing+chating+mohito= we are all together that evening.
thank you for coming and your great interest in all the changes in my life and other things that happen to me
p.s. Juk, i'm waiting for photos

live well
laugh often
love much (c)

(с) чье-то творчество пусть мне поможет

2007-09-13T13:29:00.000-07:00

это тебе
не ругайся
это от твоего лица
мне
прости меня

Первое сообщение

2007-09-10T13:11:00.000-07:00

Так странно писать первое сообщение...

Так долго собиралась создать блог, и вот момент настал, а я в замешательстве: что же написать?

Прямо как день рождения в детстве. Ждешь его, ждешь, а он проходит так, что ничего особенного и не произошло.

Но тут-то совсем другое дело, начало какой-то истории как никак.

Начало долгим не бывает, поэтому первому сообщению конец.