Differences

These are the signs for the public toilets in one of the parks close to my home. I just couldn't just pass it not taking pictures :)

MC girls & Bulgarian wine!

This was one of our fridays when we have the only our day off. So we took Bulgarian wine bottle which was standing in our room for almoust a week! So we took the wine, and went to the park (we waited to get dark) because if we would try to drink wine in the daytime we are risking to go to jail or to be banded from the country! :) So we had nice walk along the creek and then we found nice place to settle down and try Bulgarian wine which was very good:) As the consequences of the nice evening we have nice pictures as well:) Don't think anything wrong, it's just team bonding! :)

MC bunnies :)

Finally all MC bunnies are together! This is first Stella's day in AIESEC UAE!!!

UAE is not only Dubai!

Lot's of people say that UAE has no history, and history started only when oil was discovered and all skycrapers started to be build. Lot's of poeple say that UAE has no culture. That may seem like that if you have seen only Dubai. But I have seen the places where you really feel the country culture and history. This tower is nothing similar to any towers in Dubai that are shiny! Actually this is the place where very first mosk was build and still is the same as it was in the begining of 15th century. Also here you may see as people live not luxiourus life, but simple village life, with little of civilization and little of needs, although almoust every small house has satelite:)

UAE is not only Dubai!

The same day I had experienced something absolutely beautifull! For the very first time I went snorceling. On the right you see the place where we were. Its amazing sight - the rock in the water, and more amazing sight which is underwater! I have always been afraid of deep water, and diving! I was really strugelling to overcome the fear just to lay down on the water, put my face into water, and deep regularly. Finally when i managed to calm down and coordinate my breath, i started my trip into under sea world. Just few metters from the shore, you start seeing the begining of coral reef and fishes that have all the colors of the rainbow... It was absolutelly marvelous sight. For the first time i have seen such fishes so close to me... and of course fist empression was that i wanted to say: "ohhh... look how beautiful" and at very the sam emooment my mouth was full of salty, very salty water:)
We spent all day on the beach, swimming, sunbathing, sleeping:) RELAXING!!!

UAE is not only Dubai!

UAE is not only Dubai with huge traffic, rush and skycrapers that are the biggest, tallest and widest. UAE also has very nice spots! One weekend we had a trip to see different UAE. On the way to Fujairah we passed mountais, which are amazingly beautiful rocks and some palms in kind of oasis where you can see some huts and people living there, untouched of civilization.
Here we are at the very nice site: Cirstin, me and Dragos

Excitement ! ! !

It's so excited! ! ! And I just can't hide it ! ! ! :)

I'm get a boost of motivation when i think of all new people comming to join us here. First and most of all, Stella, my new team mate, she is finally getting her visa and arriving so soon! It's gonna be kind of new begining of the team. Sometimes it feels that we are stuck in the moment, when you say that latter will be better, but you've got to get yourself together to get it over. ( I almoust speak of the U2 lyrics) :) Also new begining is comming with all new members joining the LC. It will bring new winds and boost the enegery of all organisation, because huge new power is comming!
Another source of excitement is for my home LC Kaunas - who will celebrate this weekend so much, I know you will party like hell and will be happy in your hearst so much because you finally receive your EB member Giray, who we all waited for so long, also the inter is comming in! Guys - enjoy the moment and make these guys to experience real LC culture! ! ! I know it will be awesome!
I love you all so much!

The difference

Today was an ordinary day. Well, I guess so. Few hours in the office, then AIESEC presentation in one of universities, visiting Srini at the work, again in the office staying late and working on some stuff. Anyways, if you would look from different perspective, I'd say that the experience with university was quite interesting. There are two major things that are different from what I am used to (in Lithuania). University location and students.
First, the location of university - desert! Literary, university campus is located in the middle of the desert, it took as some 15 min drive just on the highway throught the desert :) however in a year time all universities will shift there, but so far there are only two buildings fro universities, others just to come.
Second, the students. We visited women university, that means that only women are studying there, and only local Arabs, so that means that all of them are under traditional covering and clothing. It's interesting to see the different student life in university... All girls look the same, and they don't need any uniform, because the abaya is already as uniform :) However, each girl has her own way to express herself through amount of make up, CK or Gucci handbags, jewelry.
We presented AIESEC internship opportunity for last year students, at the end of presentation we asked how many would be interested on going abroad for an internship, so there were many hands, but when we asked how many would be able to go (minding parental restrictions) only one girl said that she would be able.
Actaully the teachers and university administration are more excited about our internship program than students, and uni administration is the driver of this idea.
This is so much different from the university enviroment I come from :) (Best regards to VDU;) )

Girls over here are like treasure: hidden and highly protected!

What makes your day?

There are lots of small things that can make your day. Such as nice compliment, email from good friends, even good weather, or strangers smile.
My recent discovery is coffee (please notice that it is special coffee: cup of hot milk + instant Nescafe) which tastes especially nice and creamy and amazing taste cheese cake which is so soft and extremely nice. Such combination makes my day recently!

Day for your soul

Friday is a day when you can sleep long till afternoon. So I did it this friday. Long sleep is healthy! (Well, at least i claim that) :)

What else will make your friday nice day? What about good book, beach and sunset?

This is how it went: walk in fridyish empty street till the supermarket, buying a book of my favourite writer which i wanted to read for a long time. Going to the beach park, settling nicely on the sand and enjoing evening sun which is pleasently warming up your body. After some time the sun speeds up to set down, so it's perfect time to go for a swim and see how the sun is getting into warm water coloring it with different shades and playing with the last sunshines. The sunset was so beautiful, I could watch it every day, like little prince said, he loves sunsets so much that he watches it 40 times a day, just moving step by step in his little planet (The Little Prince by Exuperi). The beach was almoust empty and so peacefull, perfect time for meditation and reflection. Perfect time to forget the hectic speed, and just relax.

The paradox of our age

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints;
We spend more, but have less;
We buy more but enjoy it less.

We have bigger houses and smaller families;
More conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgment;
More experts, but more problems;
More medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much,
Smoke too much,
Spend too recklessly,
Laugh too little,
Drive too fast,
Get too angry too quickly,
Stay up too late,
Get up too tired,
Read too seldom,
Watch too much TV,
And pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values,
We talk too much, love too seldom and lie too often,
We‘ve learned how to make a living, but not a life;
We‘ve added years to life, not life to years.

We‘ve been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble
Crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We‘ve conquered outer space, but not inner space;
We‘ve done larger things, but not better things;
We‘ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;
We‘ve split the atom, but not our prejudices;
We write more, but learn less;
Plan more, but accomplish less.

We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait;
We have higher incomes, but lower morals;
More food but less appeasement;
More acquaintances, but fewer friends;

More effort but less success.
We build more computers to hold more information
To produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; We’ve become
long on quantity, but short on quality.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion;
Tall men, and short characters;
Steep profits, and shallow relationships.

These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
More leisure and less fun;
More kinds of food, but less nutrition.

These are the days of two incomes, but more divorce;
Of fancier houses but broken homes.

These are the days of quick trips,
Disposable diapers,
Throw away morality
One-night stands,
Overweight bodies,
And pills that do everything from cheer,
To quiet, to kill.

It is a time when there is much in the show window
And nothing in the stockroom.

Indeed it’s all true.


It’s all about you and me. It’s all about if we want to make the difference or continue to live in paradox. What we need to do is just stop of one moment, feel the silence in your body and mind. Think what really matters in your life, act if you don’t have any obligations, if you don’t care what others will think of you (don’t worry they are too busy thinking of what others thinks of them, so they don’t care about you), make things that makes you happy. Every little thing helps. If you want to see the difference, so be a difference you want to see.