LATEST NEWS On Being An Expat

Dear sweethearts,

This is just a short update post for all you lovely lads/lasses out there :) Remember how I was telling you a while back, in May this year, that I was in the top 4% of the most popular reviewers in Krakow? Well, guess what? Yesterday I just got an update from my beloved Tripadvisor site telling me that right now I am in the top 2% :) 

But how awesome is that! To be aknowledged in my reviews with over 16,000 readers. That truly put a smile upon my face. It makes me proud to say that I am an expat living in Poland, in beautiful Krakow. There are so many things one can do and see and experience in this lovely city!

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Also this week, on lovely Monday morning, my expat interview went live on the one and only blog portal for expatriates: BlogExpat.com. You can read my interview about being an expat and let me know of how you feel about being an expat yourself. Blog Expat is run by expatriation experts and professional expatriates and of course by all the users who share their knowledge upon the places they lived or live in still. 

Considering that life abroad is better described by those who live abroad, they provide a list of international blogs around the world. They also give the possibility to open your free blog and take advantage of all tools provided in the Easy Expat community. I love the people there. They are open minded and friendly and if you have questions, people will try and you as best they can. They know that they have been in a similar situation (or that they can always be one day in your place) and who doesnt like some help!? I recommend the site with all my heart :) I would love to hear about your expat experiences as well. As you know... sharing is caring ;)

Yours truly,

An Expat LadyBug

An Unexpected And Very Pleasant Surprize

Dear friends,

Hobbies are a way to develop certain parts of our brain and make is feel happy when we perform them. When we enjoy doing something in our leisure time and we are not getting payed for it, and we do it just for fun, well... that, my friends, is a hobby! You enjoy doing this whenever you do it and it gives you somehow a feeling of growth or fulfillment. You do it voluntarly and you do it for pleasure. For me it includes taking photos, traveling and having this blog :)

My husband on the other side, has different hobbies and one of them is collecting postcards. He started this almost 2 years ago and now he has quite a wide collection, from most of the continents ;) He doesnt have Australia yet but hopefully one day we will have that one as well... or maybe we will just travel there and buy a postcard ourselves :)

This particular postcard came this weekend and it made me smile wide and remember times during my Master Degree. I finished my Master in Marketing and Business Communications in 2010. Oh, how I loved it! I loved every project that made me think and twist and turn my brain in endless possibilities... I miss studies until this day :) and I am happy I chose this subject as it was a pleasure to learn about it.

As you may know, projects though are done sometimes alone and sometimes in groups. Well I had the most perfect team and we both had fun and work hard when we had to. My team was formed out of Radu, Mihai and me :) Radu is the most amazing driver I have seen. Only he could work out a Dacia (Romanian car) like he did. The way he twisted and twirled around the curves in the road makes me wonder until this day!

Mihai, on the other hand, was the potentially quiet one of the group. Both me and Mihai were in AIESEC and I must say this kid knew how to talk and present himself. The combination of the 3 of us was always a wonder :) 

We used to go to the Library in order to do the project but always we would deviate from the subject and end up laughing so hard that we were always on the point of being thrown out for disturbance. Now all 3 of us separately would behave, but when put together it was always great fun :)

A while ago I asked Mihai, when in Bruxelles, to send me a postcard for my husband as we had none from there. I always say that to my friends who travel and some do and some dont or just drop by and give us the postcard in person :) Well this weekend I had a lovely surprise waiting for me in the mail.

It was an envelope from Belgium and inside the envelope there was a postcard with a sticker from Mihai, saying hello from Belgium. He managed to put a wide smile on my face and made me remember the fun times we had during our Master Degree. Mihai, this post is dedicated to you! And when I will get to see you/meet you live, I shall hug your very strong :)

We both loved the postcard very much and my husband already added it to the collection. You made us both smile wide Mihai :) Come visit us when you can!

How about you, lovely people? I know it is Monday but let us think of pleasant things. What is your hobby? What do you love doing in your free time? Do you collect anything? How old is your collection and how big? What made you start it? I would love to hear your stories as well :)

Have a very lovely Monday!

Yours truly,

The Twisted Red LadyBug