My plane takes of tomorrow evening.  What a sad sad fact. I’ll miss so much from here, most of all I’ll miss my girlfriend Lalai.

But before that, let’s party!

On the note of stuff happening in the agency, we presented to the client the project I’ve been working on lately. Success. They loved it. That felt good.

The last 10 days been like a never ending rush hour for me. First of all I had friends here visiting, giving them the grand tour of Budapest, unfortunately I had to leave them half way through and head to Amsterdam.

I met up with the De-Construct team in Amsterdam to kick off some projects that I will be distance working with from Budapest. After 3 days in A’dam I jumped on a flight to Gothenburg, Sweden where my prescence was needed. I speed dated friends and after two days I went back to Budapest with new visitors in the baggage.

So there I was again, doing the grand tour and trying to be the perfect hostess when I most of all just wanted to sleep. The last week has been crazy. But fun. More fun than crazy I would say. Lots of work, late night with nice dinners and early mornings trying to catch flights or just getting up to be all sparkling and fantastic at work :)

Thanks Olivia+Johannes and Lotta+Katja for coming here.

So, I had a short visit to Stockholm this weekend. No matter the number of times I´ve been flying (I can´t help it) I´m still amazed that you´re “only a few hours away” from a different world. In this case, only 1,5 hour.
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A reflexion of the difference, the bad economic situation, that has been extremely obvious at home and in peoples´ lives, gave me a somewhat naive feeling (despite that my economic situation is part of the chaos), a relief to live in Poland right now. The crise is not that obvious here due to many reasons.
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At work we are currently waiting for the client´s approval in one of the projects to be able to start the production. So today I´ve been doing a lot of resarching for another case within P&G and will continue tomorrow.

In the corner of my eye I noticed….
(a scene similar from “Dinner for One” but without the tiger skin and the servant James)
Starting this afternoon, I will no longer have “the pleasure” to watch my collegues slip forward and backwards on the three pieces of carpet near my desk. They are now removed. I couldn´t stand the thought of being witness to a triple backflip or double frontflip by mistake…

Every day I pass this small ”delikatesy store”, it´s just around the corner from my work. By the look of it, it could have been seen along a deserted country road. Tonight I just had to immortalized it on my way home.… sometimes things appear more interesting in the darkness.

Speaking of darkness…I went to the cinema last weekend, to the film festival. The repertoir seemed to be good enough, but if you wished for the english subtitles the variety reduced a little. Anyway, I found this great movie, ”Snow”, and I really enjoyed the darkness, the nice, warm, comfortable arm chair…ZZZzzz….

This is my second week on client service, where I first started out. Before that I worked at the Media department, the last week of my grand ”tour” around the agency. Just recently I made a summary to be published on the agency´s web site about my first month in Poland, both from a work- and a culture perspective. What is typical Polish and what do I like the most in this country, I should know that by now, shouldn´t I?…. I like many things but can´t explain why, maybe I like the feeling of getting used to things. On the other hand, every day at work has so far been ”new” and different (this is the 6th room and the 5th desk I´m trying out;-). At the moment I have short and changing deadlines in my project at client service. I´m currently working for a hair care brand, interesting, but right now the project are not developing exactly the way I hoped. I will get used to it!

Tomorrow I´m flying back to Stockholm for the weekend. Right now, 7 weeks later, I reached a point where I miss to be ”social in Swedish”, I miss my family and friends, no offence please, you were always in my mind since I left home, but to start a ”new” life in a new country takes your mind of everything else. At least this happened for me.

1 month has passed, time pass by quickly when… you know the cliché but it feels true though… ”Fun”, I will come back to this subject in my next blog, or rather, what makes me happy and perform a better job. I have noticed when I read the blogs from my other FA friends we have many things in common, but different missions and situations.

Next week is my “last week” in the ”tour” when I work for every department on the agency to get to know people and their job. This Friday afternoon I moved out from house no 4 and crashed down in house no 5. ”Crashed down” may be the right expression, after 10 minutes (of one guy running up and down looking for a desk) they had arranged a work place for me and I dropped my laptop, and my 51 different cables in the middle of the room; thanks and hello Media department! The ”tour” makes people curious and ask me which department I like the most and why. Hmmm…. I have 1 week left so read my next blog ;-)

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I don’t know if it’s a really good habit, but it’s a rather nice one. Splitting a dominos pizza with Renato at 19 and then staying at Click fairly late. At around eight in the evening, enough people has dropped of so we can start play music without disturbing too much people.

That was what Tamás my mentor told me last friday. More or less. But it was not my life at Kirowski he wanted. More of a thing to show how the ongoing work and creativity flows at the agency. So that’s what I’m working on right now. I have a few ideas that I’ll try to squeeze into synopsis.