Leaving Riga

Wednesday:

- Maybe the most boring day of courses. Even if themes were quite important - handling difficult people, performance management and so on. Or maybe that was the weather or smth, cause I wasn't the only one who really needed some sleep that day

- meeting with three travellers from Portugal! Great experience! Starting evening with some common themes and thinking only about one beer and finishing with four beers and invites to Portugal on wine making season next autumn! That sounded so good, that I will really try to come there. Bruno and friends, hope to meet you one day again as it was nice and funny evening..

- live music! live light jazz music!


thursday:


- I did choose it as a day of rest: take some walk after courses, have some reading, talks with friends, argues of some principles (don't give up) ;)

- so not much to tell about this day, unless you want to know what I was dreamin' :)


friday:

- the day of practical tasks on courses. Forget the theory, do what you know! That's what I loved in these courses - only theory hardly brings you t o the target, you just have to know how to work with that!


- coming home! It's really nice to be back to Vilnius! How often do I say this? And how often do I say: good to be back to Riga, Stockholm or whatever other place? :)

- I already have tickets to four performances in Sirenos festival! (Requiem For A Metamorphosis Dir. Jan Fabre, Road To Damascus Dir. Oskaras Korsunovas, The Little Match Girl Dir. Dan Jemmett and Tragedia Endogonidia. BR#04 Bruxelles. Dir. Romeo Castellucci) Who also goes there?

5 days in Riga

Third night is coming here.. So, key things about fist two days spent here:

When decinding to come here, I didn't knew that I'll wish to stay in Lithuania these days... However, it happened, so why not to take all the best from it?

Sunday:

- coming to Riga: Jack Kerouac "On the road" - that's the book I've chosen for this trip. I must admit that was a good choise. Those 4,5 hours in the bus going from Vilnius to Riga just passed by..

- The hotel isn't so close to work place as I was expecting.. Anyway, that's much better place comparing to some of my last experiences..

- bartenders in hotel talking english much easier than in russian? What's that??? I did always thought that russian has the same popularity as latvian here :)


Monday:

- it's about 40 minutes to go on foot from hotel to Mebius office.. anyway, it's good to have such a walk in the morning! :)

- Courses are fun! Maybe it would me better to say that all this opportunity to come to Riga for some good courses is perfect! 4 estonians, 7 latvians and only 1 lithuanian :)

- latvians do not care about basketball!!! WTF? Had so many problems until I was able to see the last quarter of that perfect game with France. GO LITHUANIA!

- Good management thinking in hotel - no free internet in rooms, only in bar on the top floor :) As I was watching basketball and had some internet chatting, I also did get some beers and meal.. nice management :)


Tuesday:

- I do start to like courses more and more! The task to go to the streets of Riga an to do some teamwork tasks, that look so stupid from aside, was a great thing!

- HC and CS starts to bore me a bit.. Maybe it's something wrong with me, but it starts to become unuseful crap.. It just doesn't work! And topics like 'thank you all for not helping me' are occuring more and more often.. However, I'm still a membet of this and hopefully an active member!

- nostalgie.. walking in the streets of Riga oldtown and remembering last summer when I visited this nice city for the first time.. Have you felt that strange and very warm feeling when you turn to unknown street and when you understand that you have been here? You remember people, you remember feelings, you remember the place! That's wonderful! ;)

- listening to live blues in some nice pub in the oldtown is just great!!! Try that!

- I was joking several days ago, that in the internet near most known persons with name Lukas I found Luke Skywalker from Star Wars... It seems that in hotel's bar I'm becoming George Lucas :D Or that walker in the sky.. or some other mystic or fun hero :D

- forty minutes walking on foot equals 10-15 minutes going on bus.. I'm getting additional half an hour to sleep in the morning! :)


P.S. But now that I have finally found you Im gonna take it one step at a time Lets try keep this good thing going You tell a joke, I nearly die We have to laugh until we cry Take mine, please take mine (copyright Anouk)

Back to LTU

Yey! I'm back to Lithuania for a month or more with some short breaks (am going to Riga next week for some courses). By the way, congrats to all of you whom 1st of September means something more than just the begining of autumn! :)

So, I can say that this comeback is just great. There was a city festival on the weekend.. Just saw Alina Orlova, "live sculptures' performance acted by some mimes and Andrius Mamontovas concert of course (say or think whatever you want, but for me this guy is a symbol of lithuanian music)!! That was the best I guess... And when he started playing old songs from Foje repertoire.. It just couldn't be better! Especially when there was one more person who made it even more glamorous ;)

And now - European basketball championship started and Lithuanian team seems to be very very very strong this year! GO LITHUANIA!!! Two wins already, seven left to go!