Skydiving - Interlaken... ;)

I had a wonderful weekend!!!

Yes, yes, yes... I went for an extrem weekend... Amazing!!!!

Of course, me.. who can not sit backwards on the bus, on the train, me, who can not handle the serpentines, me, who can not even look at all the fun wheels, or roller coaster, not even talk about sitting on them...

So, yes, I went up with the airplane for higher than 13000 ft, around 4300 m high, and yes, experienced 36 sec of free fall!!!! :)))
waoooowww.....

AMAZING!!!!!!

And the free fall part was the best...
Obviuosly I had a professional guy behind me... we were bonded together... amazing!!!! ;)

He was great, and also the cameraman was great too!!! :)))

Of course, as soon as the parachute opened, he started doing his own little tricks, that made me sick... but still..this 5 minutes...just worthed it!!!
:)

Check this out:
Before.. I trusted him... and he trusted me too ;)




1 second out of 36 while I am experiencing the free fall :


And the beautiful view of Interlaken, Grims, Jungfrau... :)


We practiced the landing in the air...still... I landed on my butt:



Stay tuned for canyoning... ;)

Finnally...

So, finally I am back... I was not updating this blog due to several reasons...
first, nothing interesting really happened to me
second, i was than very very busy with my studies (ok, maybe I was rather in a deep selfpityness...)
third, lots of things happened, everything changed, and I didn't know where to start.

So, maybe.. at the beginning??? :)

Yes, I graduated!
I am an economist. - Whatever it is...
You guys can not imagine, how big relief it was for me... ugh...

And... actually, beside the relief I felt somehow disappointment too... (ok, here of course I am not talking about the aftergraduation party in Pest with Süti :)

I was disappointed maybe because I have been working for 1,5 years already, so I can see the real value of my degree... :(
It is really just a paper!

Because of my graduation, and all the exams, etc I stayed at home for more than 5 weeks!
It was amazing!!! I really missed my family ( btw, FAMILY stands for: Father And Mother I Love You) :))), my little brother, who is actually not that little anymore.
He is a real entrepreneur!!! :) and my grandfather of course!!! :)

Than I came back with Eszter, who is going to take over my position at HP.
She reminds me the way how I started everything.
I also had problems with the IT technology at HP, or looking for a flat in Geneva...

I had strange feelings, the transition started, she is going to take over my role, my job, I am going to leave HP.
I am going to miss the core team, specially one of my colleagues! When my boss announced, that I am leaving, she jabbered me, saying that she is going to miss me... :)
That really meant a lot!
She is really a great role model at working!

This weekend we went to Bern and Basel. I can't believe I visited Bern again... it is a really nice, charming little city... but still... and it was rainig again, so I still couldn't check the bears!!! Next time!!! sigh...

Than we went to Basel!!! It was OK, however the interesting thing was the blind restaurant.

The restaurant is called: Blindekuh - as in the restaurant there is as dark as a cow :)

The restaurant is managed by a foundation, that helps the blind people.

We can experience , how it could be living (ok, this case, eating) in totally dark, you are using your other senses.
It was definitely really interesting, however, expensive.
They could have offered more food, anyways.

The whole restaurant was in an old store house, there was completely, completely dark. Ok, when we first entered into the building, there was light at the reception. (and of course the chef is not blind, and in the kitchen and in the toilette there are lights...) So, we had to check the "carte" at the reception, we had to choose there what to order. Than the receptionist called our waiter, she was blind. We had to grab each others shoulder, and she led us to our table.
Everything was completely DARK!!! :)

I don't know, if you have seen one of the episodes from the CSI TV shows... well, there was a crime committed in a restaurant like this... FUNNY :)))

Ok, tomorrow, we are going to have Hungarian plate at the cafeteria!!!
That's why it is important to be friendly with the CHEF, and other kitchen crew members!!! :)))
At HP, we usually have food from all over the world... but we never had a hungarian one, so I always asked from him, when he can prepare sth.
He was asking for recipes... so I gave him a book :)))

I am really curious about the food tomorrow!!! :)

Good night,
bisous

Hopp Switz, hopp...or Höpp Holland, Höpp!

Yes, it is the Euro2008!

And I am not in Switzerland... :(

Anyways, those matches I saw were great.. the athmosphere was also fantastic!

Ho... imagine, there was a TV show in Hungary, and there was a guy saying in the report, that the only thing he is missing is the "athmosphere" in Switzerland.. that "football fever"...

What the hell is he talking about???

I mean, he definitly hasn't been in Berne, in a holland match.. or in Geneva when Turkey played against Portugal.

Or any match of Portugal... :)))

Coomeeoon... :)))

OR!

Holland against France in Geneva:)

It was great:

With Julia, we painted the french and dutch flag also... :))

Poor Dorys...

NOoooooooo....

I am just watching the Turkish - Croatian match.. i was really prepared for the penalties... than what???

Croatia scoooooreeed.... in the 119. minutes... I mean...

But I was really looking for a German -Turkish match... ;)

WHAT????

1-1

Zuzana, I am thinking about you now too!!!!

What should be in Geneva now????

ohh...

so, have to check the penalties now...

oh.. i am more frustrated now, than yesterday at my final exam... :DDD

Exam period

It is so typical... I have 2 papers to submit, 4 exams to take, several articals to translate, and still..what am I doing?
- chatting with almost everybody (the neighbors I do not even know, the postman... - i told him really embarrassing secrets too... just to gain some time...)
- comparing my friends on facebook
- watching TV shows--- really silly ones too
- going to swimming
- visiting my city as if I were a tourist --- ok, not in exam period, but I think it is a great activity: you are a tourist in your hometown! Take the photocamera with you, walk next to the river,besides the castle, visiting the cathedral and churches, maybe even a museum!
- and yes, updating my blog :)

I am actually doing everything but studying...

It feels like: I came back, everybody has changed, moved forward, but me, I am still standing in the same point from where I started.
It hurts.

From Hungary

YEAH!
I am back to Hungary... :)

Ok, just for 1 week, but still... :)

And I am going to a "Cinema fan's night" which means that for 200o HUF, around 14 CHF you can watch moives from 18 in the afternoon till 6 in the moring :)
So, basicly I won't miss any movienight, I can catch up with the 5 missing Wednesdays within 1 day... 8 hours movies... :)))

Than on Satrudaywe are gonig to have: HEN's NIGHT :)

Vandi is going to get married next month, so we have the girls' night tomorrow!
Bandi and Maresz are really really into this topic, basicly they are orginazing everything.
We go back to our univeristiy town where we lived all together... :)))
Lots of fun, stories, and drinks of course!!! :)))

It will be so great to meet all of my girsl finally again!!! :)))

Than on Sunday I sleep, than on Monday have to go to the uinversity, talk to the professors, arranging all administrative thinsgs, etc.
On Tuesday I am back again to Budapest, working very very hard...as today for example. :)

Than on Friday we have our traditional family dinner.
April 23rd is "Bela's day". In Hungary we celebrate name days. :)
And all my male famiymember called Bela. :)

It is gonne be great!

On Sunday ETO will play against a russian team.
It is about the Champinos League..semifinal... female handball obviously!!!

For more info click here!

And I am following this match from from the first seat!!! :))))

Than my parents and my brother will come to visit me in Geneva!!!!

Sooo much looking forward to this whole month!!! :)

3 weeks silence

Nowadays i am quite busy, that's why no news from my side.

But here i am, again, after 3 weeks.

That's so strange, when i finally start feeling that yes, i am on the right path of my life (in connection with all 3 "legs" : family/friends, work/carreer/university, love) than sth happens and everything collapse.

But so far, so good:
With work, everything is fine, finally i can travel: Barcelona, Grenoble, and again to Grenoble. :)
I got my contract and also my WORKPERMIT, which is a great news, i can stay in geneva for longer.
However, i feel sometimes a little bit left out form some important meetings or happenings within my organization, and that's not the best.
That is also strange, that it seems that my bosses are counting on me only till August. Well, it could be however a good news too.... I have more time to look for a job! ;)
And here you go, I said it..moreover, I wrote it down... look for a job, updating CV, uploading CV everywhere, going to interviews, etc. I found actually a CV-buddy already ;)
But, first step: find a great CV photo.... well... we all know, the first step is always the hardest :D

University:
That was/is the tricky one. I got a call from my university, saying: "Where are you? Are you finishing your studies or what? Cause it seems that you are not registered in our system..."
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

So, yes, that's so meee..... I let everything on the very lst minute...than have to freak out, than calm down, get together myself, and start thinking, organizing, and usually win.
Well... i think i am somewhere getting together myself... long way to go though... but not unmanageble!!!! hope so :)
- 2 paper/thesis to write
- 5 exams (3 difficult one, 2 so-so)
- several translations, presentations
- till May 14 :)

Family/friends:
I am having lots of fun with the RDL guys, for example we went skiing - but it deserves its own post -, we went to dinners - i ate mexican food, indian food, etc. , and we went to CERN too.... but again - other post. And of course lots of lots of great parties - SIP ;), MAD, RDL, or our own private Shakers party :) Oh, and I was in Zurich too... :)

My family will visit me, and I am sooo much looking forward to that!!!! :D

During Eastern, a good old friend visited me with her flatmates. She is DITTKE (yes, yes, from Szeged, we were LCPs in the same term...) from Bonn, and her flatmates.
They managed to prove that my "studio", which is 25 m2, is big enough for 5-6 ppl :)
And be aware, i am going to Bonn soon... :D But just because we couldn't gossip enough!!! ;)

Barcelona

I've just came back form Barcelona!!! :)))

Yes, yes... I had a business trip there... So, according to the HP policy (try to choose the cheapest solution), I've arrived to Barcelona on Sunday moring, spent the whole day with sightseeing, than on Monday left to the HP site, than on Monday evening came back.

It was cheaper to spend 1 night in Barcelona, rather than flying and coming back on the same day...

It was amazing.

When I was in Grenoble and in Lyon, I followed Coelho's advise: you can visit a city if you just let yourself walk around it... without any goal, or map.

Well, I didn't want to risk that in Barcelona, so the first thing after my arrival was to get a map from a toursit office. I already checked earlier the famous bulidings, and important things I want to see... So this time, even myself was really amazed, how prepared I could be... :)

Anyways, after checking in the hotel... (the guy at the recption was really helpful and nice... ;) ) I made my plan:
- would like to see everything... :)))

What a great goal!!!! :)

I have to say, - maybe because it was 20°C, and the sun was shining- but Barcelona is AMAZING!!!!

I visited some famous buildings:

La Sagrada Familia - it is the big art of Gaudi, ha had been working on that church for 40 years, and it is still not ready. Hopefully it will be finished by 2020...

Arc de Triomf

It 's not a typical Arc de Triomf, like in Paris, but definitly not an ugly one. :)

Actually that was the entrance of the World Exhibiton in 1888. If we walk from that Arc the Triupmph we end up in a beautiful park, with the Zoo inside:

The Parc de la Ciutadella

In the middle of the parc there is a huge fountain:



Ok, to tell you the truth, it was under construction, when I arrived.. so... yes... i stole this photo... :)

Casa Battlo and Casa Milà

Both house was bulit by Gaudi, however, Casa Milà was bulit only by a scatch..there was no plan for that.

Basicly the idea was: not to have any straight line:

You can visit these houses, and also living there is possible.. however, of course for a fortune... :)

What really surprised me, was a hospital, Hospital de Sant Pau.

You can visit it, as a museum... however, somehow I didn't feel approriate to take photos in a hospital...

The famous Guell Parc:



It is also the art of Gaudi - the famous catalan architect.
Originally the park was planned to be a huge park with houses, however, nobody wanted to live there, so as a business it was a total failure. Gaudi lived here with his family.

Tha park is amazing, the branches are also made from this mosaic, there are arcades, and the best view of Barcelona.

Tha famous avenue is the Ramblas.


This street is full with restaurants, bars, pubs, living sculptures, shops, souveniers, etc.

One of the main reason, why I should go back to Barcelona, is the Font Magico, the magic fountain.

I haven't seen the show...so I definitly have to go back there once, ando f course, I missed the bull arena, the FC Barcelona match, the Picasso museum... so lot to do still... :))

So, more information about Barcelona is here in hungarian or in english.

Than on Monday we had meetings, presentations, etc.

I think it was useful, and it was great to meet face to face with some of my teammembers.

So now, at least I can associate a face to each voice... :)))

I am wondering, how others picture me after my voice...

From a business point of view, it was maybe not the most useful meeting, however it was nto that bad... netmeeting, presentation, work, fun. :)

The WW HQ of Graphic Arts is in Barcelona, with a huge LFP museum... (those huge printers, that makes the huge advertisements...) pretty impressive...

I definitly have to go back there once for a demo or a training...