Student Alumni Mentorship Program

Last week I participated in SAMP which stands for Student Alumni Mentorship Program and it should be a meeting of CEMS Alumnis and current students where students get useful information about their future career opportunities. CEMS Alumnis work for international companies, mostly for corporate partners of the CEMS MIM Program and they are a valuable source of work experience. We were just 4 of us but also talking to 4 Alumnis. They were from Hilti Czech Republic, KPMG CZ and Vienna Insurance Group. It was a very nice evening.

Wine cellar with Cemsies

This weekend was full of interesting experience. I went with my friends from CEMS to South Moravia and we visited a true wine cellar for the first time in my life. We drank so much wine, oh my.... But it was a great weekend and on the way back we also stopped at the Chateau in Lednice and had a short walk in the park.

Club night

On Friday last week I went with two of my friends Monenka and Lucinka to a special event called "Club night". We went to 4 different places in the Centre of Prague in one evening and it was really a lot of fun. We were in Metropolitan Jazz Club and Salsa Club and in the end at the Doors revival concert.

My first CEMS drink this semester

I can tell you...I feel like being at home again because CEMS drink was exactly the thing that started everything yesterday. It is our traditional gathering of students of the CEMS MIM Program at the University of Economics in Prague and this time there were sooo many people. I really enjoyed it.
It is fun because I was doing exactly the same in Bonn :-))). Stammtisch every 2 weeks.

And otherwise everything is just fine here. And I am already looking forward to the weekend.

How is it to be back home again?

I have to admit that the first week back in CZ was quite stressful. I had to arrange a lot of things and I moved to the dorm in Prague. I am living in a student dorm again, after 3 years in a flat :-) but it´s ok because I know my roommate very well and Verusha also bought us a lot of new things in Ikea so in comparison to other people we have a really nice room.
I missed the first week of my semester but that is no problem because I did not miss anything important...I just found out that the books for my logistics minor will cost me a fortune...but of course one has to pay for the quality of education...:-).

I had meeting with my colleagues from CEMS Club Prague where I am the PR representative this year again and it´s already quite a lot of work because we have big plans for the upcoming academic year.

And I am also searching for some part-time job but this is not easy because I am already quite demanding and I found out my requirements don´t match part-time employment anymore - they always offer me full-time and that applies also for my dear T-Mobile. But so far so good we will see next week.

I also met my friends in Prague. We had a get-together dinner on Wednesday in a new flat of Monenka who is fortunately living just 10 min by walk from our dorm so it´s really convenient.And I met Lucinka again. We went for couple of beers also with my sister Bety.

My mom started working in Austria this week and she has nice stories about Austrian German (there is a really strong dialect in Amstetten but she will handle it well I am sure). Small example: da it net = das ist nichts, very useful phrase when you´re working in hospital but who can understand the first version if you hear it for the first time? Terrible, isnt´it?

Well, a lot of news and I have been at home for about one week?

Photos:Monenka cooking dinner for us, me and my roomate Verusha, me and my sis.

Goodbye T-Mobile, Goodbye Bonn

This week was full of cheerful and sad moments for me...both at the same time :-). I had two farewell dinners, one farewell party and one farewell afternoon coffee...and I have to admit I have never said goodbye to so many people, not even after my stay in Vienna. 3 months in Bonn have brought me invaluable experience and I enjoyed every moment both at work and during my freetime. My last week at work was quite busy and also very entertaining because I just got into the topic of our project so deeply that I really regret leaving T-Mobile at this moment.
I organised my farewell party in a nice German pub but with Czech beer and my friends totally surprised me with a great present. I got small papers with messages from all participants which were hidden in baloons and I had to smash those balloons in order to read everything..it´s been fun.

On Friday I had my last day at work in T-Mobile International and we have planned our last goodbye with another colleague of mine, Thorsten. My team has prepared great presents for me...you are really all my faves now...and I can prove that!

The very last moments I have spent with my two collegues Cigdem and Sare in a very stylish fish restaurant called Le Petit Poisson. It was an honorable way how to say goodbye to each other. Now I am back to Czech Republic, the plane carried me away from the Rhine valley and there are new adventures waiting for me at my University in Prague:-).Take care everybody, hope to see you again, very soon.

Mando Diao in Bonn

Last week I managed to get for free to the concert of Mando Diao (Swedish alternative rock group). Their music little bit reminds of the old good Beatles. The atmosphere in the audiance was amazing. I was there with Manuel, Stephan and Thorsten - they are all my colleagues and friends from T-Mobile.

Sunday relax

Today I finally visited the Museum of German history in Bonn - Haus der Deutschen Geschichte. The entrance is free and all expositions are highly interesting, I can strongly recommend this museum. It was interesting to see expositions of the WW2 from the German point of view. There were all big German cities after the end of the war, either in pictures or movies. They also showed the whole era of post-war reconstruction, separation of DDR from BRD, the speech of Kennedy in Berlin and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then I also saw an exposition of German songs and melodies - going from the 50s til 80s. That was cool and among the songs for children, the Czech "Biene Maja" was the first :-))))). Well, in our history there were times that were certainly not easy for anybody. You can also see the old German VW cars in one section of this museum.
I took my bike afterwards and with music in my head I just slowly went home and today there is such a nice early autumn weather. I felt so calm but anyway my duties in Prague are also slowly calling me - I am already writing articles for our CEMS Club where I am leading the PR team. And I am looking for a new job in Prague and planning millions of other things, as usual. Bye, bye.

Busy days and my stay in Bonn is slowly coming to its end.

Here I am with some more news from my busy life. I spent exactly 38 hours with my family in South Bohemia last weekend (viz. picture with my dear sis), then few hours with my friends on Sunday and Monday in Prague and then 8 hours at the University where I took the CEMS language exam in English. Afterwards, quickly back to Bonn and I am finishing the work on my project in T-Mobile because I have just 13 days left here in Germany and then - home sweet home again. In between there are some parties again. Yesterday we went to a big fun fair which is called "Pützchensmarkt" and it was really German and really crowded and loud but I liked it. We ended up in a Bavarian tent around 2 o´clock am singing German "Schlager" and drinking "Weizenbier".

La dolce vita in Bonn

The last week has been really crazy. A lot of parties - I went out on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and today I slept long and I start learning for one exam I am having next Monday in Prague. On We I went with my flatmate Christian for couple of beers to celebrate his end of studies and on Thu there was an after-job party and on Fri two interns in T-Mobile did a farewell party and on Sa we were doing a barbecue at Rhein and we went to cinema afterwards. What a great week, oh yeah. Well, and I have just one month of my internship left; the time is running so fast here, I can´t believe it. There is also still a lot to do in T-Mobile, of course.