who's bloggin' these days?

I just checked. Not too many of my friends are blogging these days. I'm very bad as well! Since I have facebook, and my picassa, I kind of don't need blogg any more. Anyways, I still decided to write. Since it's been half way through my Internship already...! I guess I am having the 6 months syndrome again. I can't say that I disliked Switzerland, but I think I did not enjoy it so much. Now, after half a year, I am discovering the country and simply loving it. Maybe, it's because it's spring, finally? Anyways, it is sooo beautiful! It has all the I need- mountains, lakes- and those two, together with the view of the lovely swiss villages- I simply adore this pictures! Now, I just need to do some thinking. What's next for me? What I want from my life? What are my long term goals? Since I joined Kraft, I felt too good to plan my next steps. Somehow, in the end of my MC term, my goal was to find a good quality traineeship, to enter a big organization, and than stay within it. Once I got it, I started drowning in my comfort zone. It feels too good to challenge status quo, and look ahead! Now, I think it's the high time to do some personal discovery again. Need to find out again, who I want to be. Who i want... who... where...

scary thought...

So, I have been in Switzerland for 3 months now. I kind of settled down already- in my room I feel like in my room, Saturday is the cleaning day, I go to the gym 3 times a week, I will start my German course this week, I have 'my people' here, my favorite places; and finally, at work I feel I am the part of the team/ organization. But just some days ago the scary thought came to my mind- I realized, that you spend so much time at your work, that you hardly have time for anything else! And no matter how much you like your job, it's always like this- you wake up, you go to work, spend most of your day there, come back home, cook/clean/do the laundry/go for a course, you go to bed, then you wake up, go to work... and the week is gone! Then during the weekend you can ether sleep (which I do not recommend) or spend it as active as possible. But then, you feel like you are tired after your weekend, but there's no time to rest, because you have to wake up and go to work again! I really like my work, I enjoy the job that I'm doing and people that I'm working with, but... life is so much work- centered! You just spend so much of your time there! That is scary! Only now I realize how important it is for you to 1) like you job 2) DO something during weekends apart from sleeping 3) have and LIVE your hobbies 4) constantly looking for new passions, interests, friends 5) keeping the work- life balance 6) have positive attitude and be happy with your life This is actually nothing new, I somehow knew this 'truth' for a long time, but I realized how important it is to actually make those things reality!

Foto update

Warning! This foto update does not have any specific order! Just enjoy! Sepi M. Just a photo- Maja, Matt, Marcelo, Sarah Me and Lana- together 24/7 Sarah (UBS Coordinator)- reflecting Geneva With MC Russia 05/06 (Reunion in Belgium) Seahorses are always finding me! (Brussels 2007) Craziness with Lana Zurich and me My boom baloon My first evening in Zurich Flight to Zurich Maja on ice =) Garden in my office

Who moved my cheese

Remember my favorite book? If you still haven't read it- do it as soon as possible! You can read more about the book here :Who Moved My Cheese And for all who read it, I have the good news: those characters are real! They work in my office, in Kraft in Zurich! See yourself!

closing of 2007

So, we have 2008 already. Many things happened last year... Just a few days ago, when I arrived in Prague to spend my NYE, I realized, that 2007 was an interesting year. Exactly 1 year ago I was in the middle of my MC term in the Republic of Macedonia. I went back to Mace from Poland, with new approach, new ideas, new attitude. As they say- 'be the change that you want to see in the world'. I tried my best- to understand Macedonian people, to be less pushy, listen more than demand. It is hard to say if I succeeded, but at least I know that I have friends there. I met great people there, people, who influenced me a lot. One of them was Mateo. We all finished our adventure with Mace, but they are still in my heart, and without them, those months would not be the same. Especially without Matt =) In June I came back to Poland. Was hit by reality- I have changed, but people around me seemed not to understand it. It was hard- now I know what does reintegration mean. It was not easy to find my place among my friends again, find my place in Poland. Especially, that I was not clear what would be my next steps... The only thing I knew is that I have to finish my studies. I was the best in finding good reasons to postpone writing my master thesis =) I got addicted to LOST, I was meeting friends, was partying a lot. Maybe it was just a way for me to make the reintegration period easier?!? I don't know. One of the things that helped me a lot was the conference, where I was invited as a Chair person- Train the Trainers in Poland. I found the time, and people, with whom I could share my experience in Macedonia. It was a great feeling to hear from somebody- "Maja, you inspired me..." The most important is that I graduated, since October I am Masters! I also started looking for a job. Unfortunately, my expectations were too high I think. It costed me a lot of frustrations, when I could not find the job that I wanted. But I did not give up- I was looking in Poland and outside of my country- not limiting myself to Europe. In the meantime I took a course in computer animation, that was keeping my occupied, same time ensuring that my brain is working =) The worst thing that could happen to me was just... doing nothing. 1 week before the course finished, I was already in Zurich. I found the internship, that was worth waiting for. I am working for Kraft Foods, in HR department. I can finally say that I finished with AIESEC, but still, I feel myself connected with the organization. Maybe because Kraft is same international, using similar tools that I got to know in @? Or maybe, because I met people, who might find my support, my stories, my advises valuable? Or maybe just because I realized, that my network of friends is one of the most important things that I have right now? So, here I am, back in Zurich thinking of 2007, and next, 2008 year. Every year is the same- you know that nothing really changed, but somehow, deep in your heart, you are excited about what the future brigs... All the best, my friends all over the world! Happy New 2008 Year!

MASTERS!

Ladies and Gentleman... Finally, Maja Mozer became MASTERS! As they say- 10 minutes of shame, and whole life in glory! So now I officially finished Management Faculty, with my masters about Learning Organization. Now I finalized all my assignments in Poland, and I'm ready to go... unfortunately my departure to Zürich was postponed again, but this is FINAL! I even had my goodbye party yesterday! haha

my new passion

Doh! This program is amazing! I definitely found my new passion! I promise I will not show you all my random projects... at least for a while! Just check up those ones! Isn't the green car AWESOME?

Computer Animation!

I started the course about computer animation in 3D Max program. The lamp is one of the first thing that I learned to create! Yay, the program is so cool, and the course seems very interesting- classes are every day from 15.00 to 20.00 and I'm never sleepy on them! Haha, maybe finally I can become the Computer Master!