Si querido publico ya mas de 1 mes por aquí en esta tierra un poco fría, pensé que no me tocaría nieve pero eso es lo que me ha sobrado desde hace 15 días, bueno les cuento mi primer experiencia en la nieve era una tarde y empezó a caer como arroz, pero no era arroz sino nieve y yo dije “que maravilla ya puedo conocer la nieve”, y me senté en una silla y me quede mirando para arriba todo contento porque era mi primera vez que veía nevar!!! Después de 15 minutos ya parecía un muñequito de nieve, pero [View Full Entry]

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Bueno después de ya 15 días fuera de casa, he conocido mucha gente y muchos lugares ya tengo muy buenos amigos que hacen mi estadía aquí aun más fácil!! Bueno les cuento que estuve en un lugar muy especial y muy hermoso un lugar de oración donde se siente una paz tremenda es como para nosotros Buga, este lugar se llama Santuario de Ostra Brama y aquí se encuentra un cuadro muy hermoso y milagroso, esta encima de un arco y dice en latín Mater Misericordiae o la madre de la misericordia en español, Fue coronada canónicamente el 2 de julio [View Full Entry]

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Bueno hoy les escribo desde Vilnius, Lithuania, mañana desde cualquier lugar del mundo después de 3 años quieto en colombia he tomado la decisión de volver a abrir un nuevo desafió en un capitulo de mi vida, después de fregar tanto de que me iba y pasaba el tiempo y nada por fin llegue a lithuania el 27 de febrero, la experiencia empieza desde colombia creo que venir a Lithuania es uno de los procesos mas complicados que hay, puesto que a mi me tomo 1 año y 2 meses, lo voy a describir cortamente, si vas a trabajar como es [View Full Entry]

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My trip from Efland, North Carolina, en route to Lithuania began last Monday. With the help of my brother, I packed all of the things that I would need from now until October when I return to New York. The packing process was not much different from my last two big pr-trip packs, but the difference this time was that I did not necessarily know what I was packing for. The past two times I packed for a baseball season. But for what am I packing this time? First I will be in Lithuania going to baseball practices, then two months [View Full Entry]

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Dear Blog readers: I have not written in quite a while, the reason being that I have been home visiting friends and family. More blog entries are forthcoming as I am back in Lithuania and have lots of exciting travels planned for this summer. Here is, in brief, my plans: -I will be here in Lithuania for a month and a half staying with Viktorija and her family, going to baseball practices, working on a project that will bring two Lithuanian youngsters to Durham to spend June and July living with host families and playing baseball. -During March and April I [View Full Entry]

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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 [View Full Entry]

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This is only my small observation concerning formal leadership. Working for AIESEC in the last 4 years was the greatest experience that i have had, but during the last year i met some very interesting situations in conferences that i have been and i would like to stop on one. In October i had a short notice (3 hours before) training on leadership, now what happened is that i had a room with 80 various people from 9-10 countries but all connected by AIESEC, most of them with leadership positions in the organization. The actual training was more about identifying [View Full Entry]

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September: I was on the hill for game 1 of the Lithuanian finals. The weather was horrible--lots of wind, lots of rain, very cold. Kaunas stadium can sometimes give you the feeling that you are on top of the world. The clouds are right above you, there are few trees around, not much protection from the weather--in short, you feel like you are in the clouds, on a mountain summit perhaps. The rain stopped play numerous times throughout the day, and it is in fact a miracle that we completed the game. Twice we ran out onto the field ready to [View Full Entry]

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It would be very easy to forget the fact that you are in Kaunas, Lithuania, while roaming through the great halls of Akropolis, the newly-opened 3-story mega-mall in downtown Kaunas. If not for the Lithuanian being spoken, this could be any other mall in Minneapolis or New York or New Jersey or Greenwich, Connecticut, or Durham, North Carolina. In fact the mall is even more flashy and fancy than most malls I have visited; there is a bowling alley, a multiplex movie theater, a full-size ice-skating rink, and much much more. (One random thing about this mall, I have noticed, is [View Full Entry]

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This year was the first season that the Lithuanian Cup was awarded. The Cup was an end of year tournament that allowed all of the adult teams in Lithuania, from both the first and second divisions, compete for a championship. It was the final weekend of the season. This was also my final weekend in Kaunas. Saturday it was rainy and there were questions whether we would be able to play the game. Draugas pitched in the game and I was playing center field. Not much interesting happened in the game until the second inning. There was a fly ball to [View Full Entry]

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