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My last week was so crazy and full of different happenings, that I even did not have any time to write about it. Trying to catch up now and do it all at once! :)
So what exactly did happen?
At first, it was PRES1 Leiden (Public Relations European School),
where from Monday till Wednesday I was giving workshops about PR – to be more precise, one about strategic partners of NGOs (participants did a great role play), second informing them what is CD and PRWG doing in PR and the third about PR problems in AEGEE locals. Together with Ramon and Hilde we made sure that participants are getting a lot of PR knowledge during PRES1 week and go back home, full of motivation to improve the situation in their locals! Now I am looking forward to hear them getting active in AEGEE even more :) Special thanks to girls from BEST and PRIME who also came as participants – it was very interesting to see and hear external opinion time after time.
Afterwards, going back to Brussels and experiencing trains being late (again), I picked up my sister and my grandmother from the train station – they came here from Latvia to visit me for four days and left just this morning. Trying to show them the best of Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent was a challenge as different people have different interests, but we managed to combine them and enjoy our time together – I haven’t seen both of them since April, when I left my home country, and I won’t see them again in the next few months for sure.
All? No, not at all! For the weekend, also some of my best friends I met in Caucasus TSU 2008 decided to come over to have our reunion as we did not have one since the New Year. So from Friday till Sunday during the day I was exploring Belgium together with my family, but in the evenings – enjoying the presence of my friends. Few hours of sleep, a lot of walking, talking and having fun!
Last, but not least – yesterday Polish mafia in the CD House (as Natalia from Network Commission is currently doing her NetCom trip and visiting locals nearby Brussels) had St. Andrzejki party, so we invited some friends over to find out their and our future through Polish traditions.
Now, when almost everybody has left, we can turn all our attention just to daily work. However, I still need to remember that there are duties that never end – like taking care of family and friends.