This chapter is being written in the airport in Rome while waiting for the flight to Tel Aviv.
I will post it only tomorrow after I’ll meet my mom and this just in case she will read it tonight it won’t destroy the surprise.
This is the story; my mom is retiring from work in the middle of the coming month (Nov) and also celebrating her birthday on the 8th of November. So, together with my dad and my sister we have decided to have a family dinner to celebrate those two occasions. We have been planning this for about 3 weeks and my mom has no clue that I’ll be attending lunch tomorrow, and I’m sure that she will flip. Just yesterday she asked me for my home address in Italy so she can send me a package, she has absolutely no clue.
More then that, this is a chance for me to relax a little bit, to enjoy the things that I miss from home and for sure get some sun, though on today’s news they said it might rain tomorrow and if so I will be highly disappointed.
Can’t wait to have Krembo (Israeli thing, you won’t understand), Goldstar beer, go to the beach and off course to meet Shira and other friends. Its going to be very busy five days and I hope that I’ll manage to do it all in a short time.
What about school? Well, school is going well, we have started the International Business class with proof. Yusaf Akbar, a great lecturer with a lot of knowledge and not like many other professors you can feel that he has the international experience, and he actually has. He is from London, family origin in Afghanistan, lived in Singapore, teached in the US and now in Hungary and he has been around a lot. His performance in class is scintillating, this is a kind of professor they makes me to keep studying more and more and to forget for a minute that there are some lecturers that are teaching not in order to pass knowledge but in order to have a stage to say what ever they want. I have missed his second lesion and I look forward for the next one.
Other then that we had few exams recently and they all went well. Finance as I assumed is not my field was never related to the numbers, but I did my best and passed it with a decent grade. Micro Economy was an easy one, very general with a lot of freedom in the answers as long as you back them with good argument. But then there is Accounting, I have totally understood the material and how things works, I have even calculated the ratios correctly in the exam (except one case where I have just copied to wrong numbers from the balance sheet) after doing everything correctly and getting "numbers" to give me the right answers, and as Alessandro my teammate the engineer said when you have numbers there is no need for words, in this case I think he was right, I have added my creativeness to the solution which the professor didn’t liked much, the meeting with him was interesting due to the fact that I had to explain him how and what exactly I did. I wasn’t wrong but my solution was very different from other students according to him. If the company should follow my advise or not, this we can never now :) but I try to follow my truth also here, I believe that the extra that I have put in that exam from myself in the real world this is how great things happens. If for everything there were an answer in numbers then it would have been too easy and very very boring. Bottom line, for the time I have invested in the exam, which is accumulating to about 3 hours total, I’m more than happy with my C+ grade.
What else? So on the weekend of the 16/17th to October I went to an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Bologna with my team Vertigo. It was a lot of fun, camping out in the rain, playing 5 games the first day and another 3 in the second day (it ended up to be less then we knew before) and in the second day after a night of pouring rain, the fields we’re absolutely a swamp. Playing in mud up to our ankles, the disc is so heavy from the mud and there is mud everywhere, nothing and no one stayed clear. But we had a blast. We finished 12th out of 24 teams, right where we were seeded in the beginning. Now the indoor session has started, on last Monday I went to Gorizia for my first indoor practice, it is weird to play Ultimate indoor but it sure demands high skill of handling a disc. I think I might start lovin it.
Other then that, the winter starts to show its signs (or it is the autumn here) but the top of the mountains are white already, the wind is blowing strong (on Monday it was 140 KPH) and it is freezing. Waiting to the bus in the morning more then 5 minutes turns to be not a simple task.
What is it about airports that I like? I can’t stop looking at people that are around me and wonder where they heading to or what they are doing. I love airports and I love to be traveling I cant explain you the feeling. Some of you may think you know what I’m talking about but trust me you don’t. When I travel by myself, which I do often, it is pure thinking time for me. So many thoughts are running through my head right now. Plans for the future things that I have done in the past. Things I want to change and things I want to have. Where is this lady running? Who is waiting for her? And why this macho man in the other table got tears in his eyes? I want to know it all
Oh wow, I’m excited about going home. I miss Noga and Ayelet, be nieces. On Wed my sister told me that Ayelet was crying cause she found a present I gave her when she was in the hospital and it made her miss me and to realize that she will not see me until September next year. I have been dreaming about the moment where I see her face an that moment when she will realize that it is I and start run towards me. Omer and Dror are growing up rapidly they are my nephews both very young but with in those two month Omer started to talk... it will be funny to see him being man. Maybe I should start and train him with Barny Stinson skills (SUIT UP KIDO).
Since San Diego 2009, I have this master plan in my head. To start my own international company. I run ideas about it with my good friend Max, he is from Russia and I believe that this two ends of the spectrum societies that we come from will be beneficial to our company. We have a great idea, money I believe will not be an issue but we need to wait few more years until we will get it all together. But every time we talk about this is makes more and more since to me, and I believe more in this idea. We can ask about it as much as you want, no, I will not tell you what it is.
Saturday 30 October 2010
Monday 18 October 2010
let the finger roll
Its been a while now that I was thinking about writing again but I wasn't sure what exactly I want to write. On the one hand I have so many things to say and to share but then I`m not sure what should be interesting enough for people to read. However, today I have decided to just let my fingers roll on the keyboard and to see what will come out.
Its exams time at MIB, the system here is a bit different form what I know there is not real exam period. Every class last for about three weeks twice or 3 times a week sometimes, between four to six hours a each session. Few days after the last class there is the final exam. If usually in a normal world, you have a class that last for about 3 month (a semester) and then an exam you have enough time to understand the material and also to do some exercises. In this case we are not even getting back the papers we handed in during the classes so we can`t know if we are right or wrong. However this is the Italian way and it might feet to my previous post . Tomorrow is the 3rd exam in less then a week, I`m sure it will be fine though they want/need is to pass. This is a private school after all for good and bad.
what happen in the last 4 weeks since I have last wrote? well a lot actually.
at the beginning of the month there was the Barcelona here in Truest, this is the European largest yacht race. for a week the city center around Piazza D`Unitte was decorated and full with people and pavilions of variety of publishers. Concerts in the Piazza and thousands of people in the streets and in the bars. At the day of the Barcelona it self which is the official race (a huge triangle in the bay) we went to Optician, this is a little town up above Truest where there is a beautiful over looking point on the bay. We could actually see the boats setting in one line and when the cannon fired the race has began. It is a unique experience I have never seen so many boats in one bay racing together.
The winter has started to show in the streets of Truest, the locals are calling it autumn but trust me it is freezing some days. When the rain and wind are combining power together, it is almost impossible to walk in the streets, the cold is entering the bones and according to all professionals (the locals) this is nothing to compare to what we have ahead of us.
What about Achmadinigad? does any one in this world is about to do something about this ? how dare he to stand few kilometers from the Israeli borders and to claim that he will destroy us ? I want to see what would other nations react if this would have been them, the Lebanese I can`t understand also. for so many years they were under Syrian control with no strength what so ever about what will happen to their country, then they vote for Hizzbullah and now Iran so why we need this entity called Lebanon if its never standing by it self ? such a beautiful country with some great people (from the number that I was lucky enough to know) with so many things to offer to the world and they go hand by hand with the axes of evil. I have read today that Iranian planes will be able to fuel only in Germany and Austria until the end of the month and then even those will be closed for them. The reason is to prevent of making business with Iranian companies, I dont really think that this will solve it do you people not aware of the internet that has made the world smaller and there is no need for traveling in order to do business ?
Achmadinijad is irrational, and nothing we will do or say will stop him from talking and planing on destroying the world. He was bold enough to blame the US for planing and executing 9/11. He treats is own people as they were animals. A revolution is much needed in Iran but this is not ours nor to US job to make it happen, if the people of Iran enjoy the way they do now let it be. They must know this, Israel is going no where, neither the US or Europe, it is them that will suffer in the end of the day.
I was asked recently by the career development department at the school which are the top five companies I wish to work for, and in which field I wish to built my career path. I dot know I really don`t. One of the reason of which I`m here now is to explore future options, it is so hard to think far ahead, by far I mean a year ahead. I have no clue. I would let the time to decide for me, where what and with whom I will do things.
I miss Israel a little bit, I miss the food, the family, the friends the atmosphere I miss Krembo and I miss want to travel abroad.
good night.
Its exams time at MIB, the system here is a bit different form what I know there is not real exam period. Every class last for about three weeks twice or 3 times a week sometimes, between four to six hours a each session. Few days after the last class there is the final exam. If usually in a normal world, you have a class that last for about 3 month (a semester) and then an exam you have enough time to understand the material and also to do some exercises. In this case we are not even getting back the papers we handed in during the classes so we can`t know if we are right or wrong. However this is the Italian way and it might feet to my previous post . Tomorrow is the 3rd exam in less then a week, I`m sure it will be fine though they want/need is to pass. This is a private school after all for good and bad.
what happen in the last 4 weeks since I have last wrote? well a lot actually.
at the beginning of the month there was the Barcelona here in Truest, this is the European largest yacht race. for a week the city center around Piazza D`Unitte was decorated and full with people and pavilions of variety of publishers. Concerts in the Piazza and thousands of people in the streets and in the bars. At the day of the Barcelona it self which is the official race (a huge triangle in the bay) we went to Optician, this is a little town up above Truest where there is a beautiful over looking point on the bay. We could actually see the boats setting in one line and when the cannon fired the race has began. It is a unique experience I have never seen so many boats in one bay racing together.
The winter has started to show in the streets of Truest, the locals are calling it autumn but trust me it is freezing some days. When the rain and wind are combining power together, it is almost impossible to walk in the streets, the cold is entering the bones and according to all professionals (the locals) this is nothing to compare to what we have ahead of us.
What about Achmadinigad? does any one in this world is about to do something about this ? how dare he to stand few kilometers from the Israeli borders and to claim that he will destroy us ? I want to see what would other nations react if this would have been them, the Lebanese I can`t understand also. for so many years they were under Syrian control with no strength what so ever about what will happen to their country, then they vote for Hizzbullah and now Iran so why we need this entity called Lebanon if its never standing by it self ? such a beautiful country with some great people (from the number that I was lucky enough to know) with so many things to offer to the world and they go hand by hand with the axes of evil. I have read today that Iranian planes will be able to fuel only in Germany and Austria until the end of the month and then even those will be closed for them. The reason is to prevent of making business with Iranian companies, I dont really think that this will solve it do you people not aware of the internet that has made the world smaller and there is no need for traveling in order to do business ?
Achmadinijad is irrational, and nothing we will do or say will stop him from talking and planing on destroying the world. He was bold enough to blame the US for planing and executing 9/11. He treats is own people as they were animals. A revolution is much needed in Iran but this is not ours nor to US job to make it happen, if the people of Iran enjoy the way they do now let it be. They must know this, Israel is going no where, neither the US or Europe, it is them that will suffer in the end of the day.
I was asked recently by the career development department at the school which are the top five companies I wish to work for, and in which field I wish to built my career path. I dot know I really don`t. One of the reason of which I`m here now is to explore future options, it is so hard to think far ahead, by far I mean a year ahead. I have no clue. I would let the time to decide for me, where what and with whom I will do things.
I miss Israel a little bit, I miss the food, the family, the friends the atmosphere I miss Krembo and I miss want to travel abroad.
good night.
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