The very last days

my group

Well, i hate to say goodbye, that's why till last moment i didnt think about leaving, but itwas hard because somepeople left already. On my last night we didnt sleep,we were packing, we wentout, we drank a lot, i was joking andnot thinkingabout anything else.

dear liuba

Yes there were some diffficulties in our project, not all people were that nice andfriendly, but in general it was greta, i met amazingpeople from all over the world, spent 45 days in paradise place, travel, ate. had fun. So i have nothing to complain,and i dont want to XD I know that will miss my wonderfull Liuba, other people, but we will meet one day)

Actually after final presentation we had something like good bye party were people wrote each other diffeent nice things and put it in a special place, but you know, i hate this girly stuff and i dranka lot of wine, so i offered to write nice things on me, at list i can remember it that way XD

But now it is time to move on, as always XD

Last presentation

It was too official,too unnatural, i didnt like it, but the winers' video was great, i put it her eto let you enjoy it

P.S. Did you notice my anorexic hand twice?) Yeap, i was a part of this great job))

Last week

So after second presentation we had week anda half till the last one, and i had 10 days till leaving. During that time we had an amazing brasilian party with their famous "caipirinha" drink, russian party with pancakes, vodka and grechka, some drinking games parties and just a lot of fun)

Actually our russian party was the most disorganized party, we didnt have enough vodka and didnt explain people that you cant eat grechka with dolche de leche XD 

Second presentation

It was great, really
I just put here videos, it will say everything better than i can do XD

Our group video

Discovery Project - Group C - 21 Nov 2011 from AIESEC Catania on Vimeo.

and B group (they used my favourite song!)

Discovery Project - Group B - 21 Nov 2011 from AIESEC Catania on Vimeo.

Global Village party

I was so into my traveling that i totally forgot about "work" we had to do, and when i came back from Messina (all wet and tired) i met AIESECers in our residence who were waiting for us to go to the Global Village party, so i had to change fastly and join them)

What was this party about? Well, more or less it was presentation of our traditional food (there we were supposed to bring from our countries) to italians) So everybody just brught some snacks, their country flags and souvenirs and that was it. As we were 7 russians we had the biggest place there with almost no food XD

This party was in the "MA" club, so after small presentation we went to the dance floar and had fun there all together as always, music was shity but we didn't care, well, after italian wine you dont care about abything XD

First presentation

Hey, hey guys! How are you doing? Im very good, drinking wine and eating a lot, also traveling little by little)

So today was our first presentation. It was bad) Standart PowerPoint resentations with music and good photos, i think we were drinking too much and didnt concentrate on our "work" (if you can name it so). Actually i really have nothing to say about past two weeks, it was nice, warm, with a lot of alcohol and food.

Ciao

Let the party begin!

It is 23 of October and I'm in Catania!

This day was pretty long, at morning i met with my very best friends to celebrate Rita's birthday, so we had breakfast together after what i went to the airport, took my favourite WindJet airlines (200 euro for return ticket!) that took me to Milano, where i had my connection stop. There i met with another participant of that project - Lyuba: really nice girl from St. Petersburg. And 2 hours later we were in Catania already.

OMG how i missed this place! Everything is so familiar to me here, and after Moscow is so much better)

But ive already written everything what i think about Catania, so now ill stop on my project. this project is a photo and video competition between 4 teams that italians devided us in. We will have to travel around Sicily, take photos and make presentations every 2 weeks, and the biggest and the best presentation for the final conference - sounds ok XD

There are 20 participants in this project: 1 serbian girl, 2 girls from croatia, 1 from venezuela, 1 from Austria, 2 guys and 2 girls from Brasil, 1 guy from Mexica, 1 girl from Kazakhstan, 2 from Bolgaria aaaaand 7 ryssian girls. SEVEN! Do i have to explain that responsible for chosing participant were italian guys?XD After deviding in teams i was in Team C with two russians and two latin-americans, you can guess what was our favorite thing to do together))

Updates!

Hello my dears,
Missed me?)

It had been a long time, right? I have something new to tell you: i'm leaving soon!! Even more, i'm going to Italy! "Again?!" you can ask. "Always!", i told you i would come back there)

Do you remember that last year i hosted a girl from Colombia who came to Moscow for social internship? Now it's my turn. There is an international student organization called AIESEC, who is organizing international internships. So one day i was looking through their web site and found an amazing social internship in Catania! In my favourite Catania, in Sicily! Do you thing i had any doubts about it? It was like a sign XD

So, i just applied for it, had an interview with local organization, then with italian organization, and then i was matched! How i've understood there we will make some photo-project about Sicily, what is nice, but honestly i dont care what this project is about, i just want to come back to Italy)

So so so, less than in one month I'm going back to Sicily to drink a lot, eat even more than drink and enjoy my life there XD

Catania, or how i felt in love with volcano

I got so tired of Palermo that i crossed all Sicily just to visit biggest city there - Catania. I took a bus - and it is the only right way, because trains are so bad and slowly that you need a day to get from one place to another)

What can i say about Catania? It is so different from Palermo, i love this place. Even sea here is less solty and prices are lower) The first day my host took me to the beach at Aci-Castello, where you can see black medieval castle) And after at night time we went around city - that was very beautiful, friendly and calm. Here i understood that i got really tired of italian men, i think italy could be perfect for me without them XD

Second day in Catania became my best day there - we went to Etna. ETNA! I felt like in Iceland again! And Etna was erupting....Oohh, i felt so free there, i just was running around up and down like a kid - i loved that place! And colors, they are crazy there - brown, green, black, red, all together, all around.... And because we were high it wasnt that hot there. After we went to canyon with very beautiful waterfall and very cold water) There my host tought me how to play sicilian card game Scopa and lost me breakfast))

Next day we were walking around city. If you dont know the name of some place in there it is probably named after Bellini - the famous compose from Catania, really, try it) Also city is full of baroque architecture and churches, almost one building out of ten) In the very center they have elephant monument, because somehow elephant is the symbol of the city) But all of this isnt as interesting as nightlife inthere - at night we went to the beach party! Dont forget im from cold Moscow, beach party always sounded a bit unreal for me.  It was crazy night with alcohol, sea, Etna's eruption and strange man who came out of the water fully dressed

But next morning i was on my way to Palermo