Blogs from Vilnius, Lithuania, Europe - page 18

I was having this thoughts the other days about how people lead other people and about the kind of "leaders" i met during the last 3-4 months. Most leaders that i have seen lately are afraid to step out of their comfort zone, they tend to "play safe" and see where the road takes them in stead of making at least small risks that could bring so much more. Now, observing these in the last months made me think and i started researching a bit my past to see where are the "risk takers" and what is my position to them now. What i have seen is that lately i haven't really met people that will actually take decisions out of their comfort zone and more i have more appreciation for some people that took ... read more

So, in my AIESEC Career i had the opportunity to chair the "Global Village" of Euroco...how could i say no? Euroco 2007 was organized by AIESEC in Vilnius, and because i mentioned AIESEC Vilnius... Congratz guys and Girls you have done a great job... So the External Global Village took part in "Europa shopping Center" a modern MOL in the center of Vilnius, The pictures will tell you a lot about the Location. About 30 countries were there, the general feeling that i had is that GV in AIESEC is loosing it's value, is like the LCPs were out of order and not so prepared for an External Global Village. But after all i had a great time with the 2nd Chair...Kotrina from Kaunas, and 3 Crazy nights out with the delegations, Jonas, Deny, Lauras and ... read more

So. Lithuania...... after Riga we had finally met up with people that were going our way. Karen from Canada, Ally from Australia, Ken and myself had caught the bus to Vilnius. All these cities had the same sought of attributes, beautiful old city centres and massive developing tourism trade. Vilnius did not let us down. The advantage to this place was the local population also shopped , ate and drank in the old town, not just us tourists! I think overall I much prefered Vilnius to Riga....it had a much more relaxed vibe, cleaner streets, smaller and not quite as busy. Hostel we stayed at was nice too (VB Hostel) - a stones throw away from the old town. We tried the specialities of Lithuania, including these very solid potato dumplings made out of potato in ... read more

Tijdens onze kotenzoektocht van de afgelopen week had Jasmijn vlakbij dworzec centrałna (centraal station) een pijl richting Vilnius zien staan. Zondag, de dag na onze intrek in de flat, bedacht ze dat het misschien wel een leuke bestemming was voor een trip en ik vond dat nog niet zo'n zot idee en meteen die dag gingen we nog naar het station om tickets te boeken bij Eurolines. Maandagavond 10 september om 23u. De rugzakken gooien we in het laadruim van de bus. Exit pakezel, enter lazy bustoerist. Wij kiezen voor de turkenbank, helemaal achterin de bus, zodat we min of meer comfortabel kunnen slapen. We rijden ongeveer negen uren tot in Vilnius en daar komen we 's morgens om 09:00 aan (er is een uur tijdverschil). De eerste dag in Vilnius dwalen we vooral rond in ... read more

We had a nice long sleep in again today and neither of us particularly wanted to get up. When we did get up we headed across the city to the bus and train stations to plan our escape route to Poland. Turns out whichever route we take we're spending the full day traveling. We went for dinner back at the veggie restaurant. Rob finally got his falafel, and I had a vegetable crumble, all very satisfying and yummy. During dinner we booked our hostel in Warsaw. We're going back to dorm life, but hopefully it'll be slightly livelier than Vilnius. After dinner we had a gentle meander around a square we hadn't seen before. We made a decision to try walking to the Coke Cola Plaza again. We didn't really have anything else to do, so ... read more