Speech from My Graduation Published Online

Greetings to everyone. I have finally uploaded the speech from my graduation ceremony for those who were interested to listen but could not attend on March 12. I hope you will enjoy it.

http://vimeo.com/11994877 

 Just a little reminder, the speech is in Czech.

Edinburgh calling

On the first weekend of May I arranged a trip to Edinburgh in Scotland to visit my friend Lucy. I flew with a friend of mine Martin and our both flights went ok despite the recent activities of the Islandic volcano whose name is so hard to write or pronounce.

The temperature in Edinburgh was around 10 degrees lower than in Prague but that has not discouraged us from exploring beauties of the Scottish capital. We were impressed mainly by the crowds in and atmosphere of local pubs. In the restaurant called "Standing Order", you order and pay your food at the bar and tell the waiter the number of the table and in few minutes, they would bring you the meal. Interesting and quite efficient pub supply chain :-). Well, I am just joking.

Edinburgh has for sure a lot to offer. I was most impressed by the really green lawns and grass, plus at this time of a year, flowers and trees in parks are blossoming and the city looked perfect with old British houses around. There is great view from Calton Hill where we spent Friday evening observing and ancient fire festival tradition.

On Saturday we visited the coast and the beach. It was probably the coldest weather at the seaside which I´ve ever experiences but I found some huge shells which improved my mood very much. Then we had a small lunch in a nice restaurant near the beach.

A funny story ended our Saturday evening when I pronounced the name of our street totally differently to the taxi driver and he took us on other side of the city. So ok, the drive cost us a bit more :-). Lucy likes it in Edinburgh very much and I do not wonder about it. It is a nice place if you don´t mind bit of rain and cold wind...:-). Although when we landed back in Prague on Sun evening, it was raining while it was sunny before the plane took off from Edinburgh.

My recent activities...

Hello again after some time. I am getting used to my new assignment at Cisco Emerging Markets Partner Organization while undertaking other activities in my leisure time....well, as usual :-). The team in my initiative is growing and I am learning fast every day which is good.

I have again attended some CEMS events during the last few months, including traditional CEMS drinks, CEMS Team Building in Krkonose, CEMS Gala event. One special piece has been the CEMS Theatre, a play called Happy Prince from Oscar Wilde, performed by CEMSies. The video from this world first premiere can be seen right here . I have contributed with little piano accompaniment.

Apart from this, I am trying to be in close touch with my family. The last two months were full of big anniversaries when my mom celebrated her 50th birthday and my grandmother her 75th. After me celebrating my 25th this year in August, this big chain of our anniversaries will be over :-).

I am meeting my friends often and we have spent some nice moments together within last weeks, including this one:

Last but not least I spend a lot of time with my bf Lukáš who is great support of my out of work life and brings balance into everything around.

I am also trying to upload the speech from my graduation ceremony to be available for preview. However it is not ready yet and should be done in a short time.