Last weekend in Germany with my friends

The last visit of my person in Bonn this year were my friends from university - Verusha, Monika and Lenka who spent 3 great days with me. I rented a company car for us (very nice service for Telekom employees, indeed) and we went to the closest and biggest cities around Bonn - Köln, Düsseldorf and Koblenz. On Sunday afternoon we visited few villages around the river Mosel and girls tried out local wine in a nice restaurant. In the evening we enjoyed the Bonner copy of Krizik´s fountain in Prague (just joking). No , it was a water show accompanied with classical and pop-rock music, installed at the main square in Bonn. ´In German it´s called "Klangwelle". There were really crowds of people watching it and they did it as a memory of 6o years of German Republic´s existence.
Girls went on Monday morning to the City on their own and I set off to my third last day in T-Mobile. They left on Tuesday morning and there were just two more days for me to spend in Germany so I really tried to make the most out of it :-).

Martas, Evca and Hrusticka in Bonn

This weekend my Czech friends visited me in Bonn. Hrusticka was for the first time in Germany and I hope she had enough of real German experience. We tasted typical beer of Bonn - Bönsch, and also visited the biggest fair of Nord Rhein Westfalia - Pützchensmarkt where we had some Kölsch in a Bavarian tent. We did small sightseeing in Bonn City center and we concluded Saturday with a barbecue on my balcony and also my friends from Bonn - Stephan and Isabell - came around. On Sunday me, Ondra, Martin, Evca, Lucinka and Katka - big group of Czechs - went on a boat trip to Königswinter. The weather was not one of the best in Bonn but we enjoyed the day as well. Everybody liked the view from Drachenfels and we even had time for a nice cup of coffee afterwards. It has been a cheerful weekend which is something I really enjoyed in these days.

Düsseldorf visit

On Wednesday September 9 (9.9.2009) I went with my colleague Sare to Düsseldorf where we met our friend from last year Cigdem. It was a very fast two-hour visit but we managed to have a tasty dinner at the Rhine and then we walked through the old city center and ended up at the Ratinger street with one glass of "Alt" in our hands. Düsseldorf exceeded my expectations - it is a very nice and living City. And of course, it was very nice to meet Cigdem again and see that she´s doing well.

Trier and Luxembourg

On the first September Saturday I decided I need to do some trip and I chose to go to Trier - the oldest German town and then I continued to Luxembourg. I spent some hours in regional trains, going along the Mosel river with beautiful wine-yards around and I managed to escape from the rain clouds the whole day. When the train kicked me off in Bonn again at 1am at night I was culturally satisfied and nicely tired.


Trier was really crowded in the city centre but the main reason was obviously Saturday shopping because when I turned into some smaller streets, suddenly, the town was totally empty.I visited the old Roman excavations and ancient buildings. The exhibition of Roman spa was really interesting and then I went to see the amphitheatre as well. In the Centre where the main sightseeing point of interest is the ancient Porta Nigra I remembered my final exam at the grammar school. During the German part one of the topics were old German architectonic highlights and Porta Nigra was definitely among them.

Later in the afternoon a small train took me over the German border to Luxembourg where I spent three lovely evening hours wandering around the City and marvelous views on the old fortifications and Citadella of St. Esprit. Luxembourg has a great atmosphere and also the fact that you can hear so many languages in the streets is fascinating. So I even tried to speak few sentences in French again :-). It felt almost quitchy when the sun was going down over the hilly City panorama with old bridges and viaducts.

News from Bonn

What my days in Bonn this year look like? First of all, diploma thesis, diploma thesis, diploma thesis...secondly I also try to relax, meet with my old and new friends and do some little trips. I went with my collegues Martin and Sebastian to an international supplier meeting in the Netherlands which was an interesting event for me to see.

There is some restructuring going on in former T-Mobile International and therefore the company organized a nice barbecue in the park near T-Mobile Campus which was ended rather dramatically by the arrival of a big windy storm that carried one of the white tents away :-). Me and few other people continued afterwards to the well-known after-job party, it was an evening full of fun.

And then again, routine and work, biking to work everyday. But one has to admit it´s a nice routine here in Bonn. Me and Ondra visited the Kunstmuseum in Bonn last Sunday. This one did not amaze me too much, I was expecting more masterpieces but the building and coffee afterwards were nice as well :-). One thing I will never forget - the painter named Blinky Palermo - marvelous name, really. The thing in the picture is his work. This week I also met with my flatmate from last year Christian who is now studying technical logistics in Duisburg. We spent a nice evening in Bonn. And next week me and Sare, hopefully, we are finally going to Düsseldorf, to visit our friend Cigdem who was my last year´s sparing partner in TMO.

Weekend in Paris

Last weekend I visited two of my CEMS friends in Paris. Misa and Peta have a nice flat close to the City center and I had the chance to spend two nights and one and half days with them. We did some sightseeing along the river and I was finally at Musée D´Orsay where most of the French impressionist art is shown. We spent more than 3 hours inside and it was just great. I saw the original of Vincent van Gogh´s picture of his room in Arles and Paul Gauguin´s women from Tahiti and Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet, Cézanne, Toulous-Lautrec, Courbet, Rodin - perfect master pieces. I can recommend this museum to any fan of the 19th century art. We went out in the Latin Quarter and on Sunday morning I visited a nice market near the place where the girls live. Paris is a nice place and I also tried the high-speed train for the first time:

le Thalys :-) - Cologne-Paris in 3:50 hours.

Back to Bonn...same department...different company

One year of my life is over again, I am 24 years old and I am working on my diploma thesis in Bonn. Comeback to my old supply chain management team was a very pleasant occasion and I really like it here. The company has merged with its mother again so now I am an external employee of Deutsche Telekom instead of T-Mobile International. Nevertheless, this does not change anything on the fact that I chose a really good and interesting topic for my thesis: Collaborative planning in supply chain management; and right now I am in the phase of data and information gathering, studying, reading.....Plus there is another important thing knocking on the door....what could it be....the decision about my future career?

Tour Americas

In July I spent three wonderful weeks travelling through five states in the USA. We started in New York and then flew to Las Vegas where our roadtrip began. We visited nine national parks, four big cities and drove along the Pacific coast. Our NY, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California experience will be also soon available in our travelblog: http://touramericas.ontheroad.to/. It was a time well-spent and I have to admit that U.S. is a great country for roadtrips. Watching Manhattan from the Empire State Building, climbing in the Grand Canyon, seeing sunrise in Monument Valley, swimming in Pacific Ocean in LA, driving along the Highway No. 1 to San Francisco, standing on the shaking Golden Gate Bridge, seeing live bears in Rocky Mountains, experiencing the deadly heat in Death Valley and enjoying the night lights of Las Vegas - me and my friends, we have done all that :-). The best pictures are uploaded in facebook and the albums are accessible also through this blog on the right side.

The great and succesful month of June 2009

My final exams are done since June 8th and I very much enjoyed the rest of this month with my friends, attending various events and parties. Holidays will not last forever and I will have to start being a full-time employed person soon but for now there is still some time left. Let´s go for the big U.S. adventure called "Tour Americas". Plane to N.Y. is leaving tomorrow!

And one more thing I would like to add: This academic year was a great experience, I spent wonderful moments with my friends and took part in many interesting projects. My CEMS Club Prague presence has come to its end now but don´t worry...I will stay a CEMSie forever.

See you soon.

My Internship in the Czech Press

My latest succes is publication of an article about my internship at T-Mobile International in a Czech social magazine called "Reflex".
You may read the article at: http://www.reflex.cz/Clanek36261.html.

I met with the reporter Mr. Zvelebil few months ago to talk about my German work experience and I hope the result of our interview is interesting at least for some readers.