words of wisdom

our dear Pope last weak said words not many would expect, he "warned against 'the dangers of excessive activity, whatever the condition or office held, because many occupations lead to a 'hardening of the heart' and suffering of the spirit."

it is so true our days that life pace has got incredible pace and it's so difficult to cope with it.
i remember last year, when stuck in Brussels airport for 27 hours, realized that i am more frequent guest in the airports than church and it says something about our lifes..

rainy ICL weekend

seems that "sunny days are over" in Lithuania as Vaya con Dios sing in their famous old song:)
though there's nothing to cry about, since summer has been long and nice.

this weekend i am facing little challenge - weddings of friends.. and it will be in the language i barrely speak. little intercultural challenge within my own country.. uff :)))

if all goes fine, after weekend you'll find some pictures here ;)

weekend near Baltic sea

this weekend was double in length due to celebration of "Zoline", our banl holyday and traditional christian festive day.

even though we had to work (delivering a training on strategic planning) we managed to enjoy some of the offers of Klaipeda, Palanga and Neringa, three main destinations on the Lithuanian cost of Baltic sea.

since weather was pretty-shity :) we had a chance to explore indoor atractions: Marine museau, dolphin show, bit of nightlife of Palanga and Klaipeda.

In Nida we had a splendid view over Curonian Lagoon and participated in the fair of traditional Lithuanian handcraft, medicide, tried fresh fishsoup and little pieces of bread baked on hot stone.

it nice to learn more about your own coutry and to learn to appreciate yout identity, your history and your culture. We do have things to be proud of!

just to mention, i do love my girlfriend!!! sweet kiss to you, dear T :*

elazig, prep, day1

Day plan:

1. breakfast
2. presentation of organizations involved in the project
3. visit to local "bashkan" - governor of Elazig region. wow. very nice guy. interested in other countries, quite open.
4. visit to the big boss of FIRAT University of Elazig, different story, not so welcoming mister, still nice air conditioned office and traditionally good tea.. :)
5. walk in the city. during the walk, i jumt into the shoe shop of my friend and he joins as for walk and lunch.
6. lunch -some more great turkish food... i could get used to eat it everyday, i think..
7.working session with hosting group of the project. long discussion, some debate, at the end - most of the things clarified. uf, we move on.
8. trip to ancient city Harput " we visit Harput Kale (castle), Shahadet Parmah, Ancient Theatre, have another tea in the restaurant with the magnificient view over valley of Elazig, surrounded by mountains on all sides and decorated with two big lakes and settlements :)
8. more food:)
9. nice long walk in the warm but fresh turkish night;
10. silent eve, since our turkish hosts are busy tonight and we are bit tired to do crazy things ourself. Marius is sitting and writting something to his blog.. one more cup of tea would be great.. going to find some :)

2006 08 01 back to Elazig.

little deja vou, Marius back to Elazig, Turkey. This place has given me one of the strongest and miost spectacular experiences in 2005, so it is my great pleasure to be back here and visiting my old friends.

though the real mission is advanced planning visit of youth exchange... tomorrow we gonna work on the programe, pay a visit to governor of Elazig and have a trip to Harput, an ancient city which can boast with a nice castle made of milk (water demand was always greater than supply in this place) and a burial place of Arap BABA.

you can read more about these places here, though it is in Lithuanian.

to be continued

birthday on the bus. hell know where :)

my 28 birthday "beggined" during my stay in Chisinau, Moldova and continues all the way from this green city via Transnistria to Kiev, lovely capital of Ukraine.

in the picture you can see me thinking of the wish, the birthday cake and a candle - according to ou traditions, if you managed to blow all the candles (in this case all one:) your dream will come true. i managed. now it turn of my dream to come true. i will tell a secret that it is already half true ;)

Moldova - you cannot imagine more beautiful view thamn a see if blossoming sunflawers. it is absolutely amazing, especialy if you see it in the sundawn. it is WOWOWOWOWOW...

more experience - strange "country" Transnistria - former part of Moldavia, Romanian/Moldovan country, now accupied by Russian militia and held as "sovereign" republic. well, at least we had to pay for crossing the boarder, there their power ends. i dont like that our big eastern brother still tends to intervene in the life of its neighbouring countries, like they akready sorted out things inside..

all for know, m