{"id":791,"date":"2009-11-30T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T09:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2009\/11\/30\/neverending-duties\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T00:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T23:21:57","slug":"neverending-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2009\/11\/30\/neverending-duties\/","title":{"rendered":">Neverending duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\" ;font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">My last week was so crazy and full of different happenings, that I even did not have any time to write about it. Trying to catch up now and do it all at once! :)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">So what exactly did happen?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><img src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_96fXr_yXeV0\/SxOiYCXC9SI\/AAAAAAAAAZQ\/CJlNiFKHhEY\/s200\/PRES.JPG\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409846111236191522\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">t first, it was <b><a href=\"http:\/\/pres1leiden.blogspot.com\/\">PRES1 Leiden<\/a><\/b> (Public Relations European School),<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">where from Monday till Wednesday <b>I was giving workshops about PR<\/b> &#8211; to be more precise, one about strategic partners of NGOs (participants did a great role play), second informing them what is CD and <a href=\"http:\/\/aegeeprwg.blogspot.com\/\">PRWG<\/a> doing in PR and the third about PR problems in AEGEE locals. <b>T<\/b><b>ogether with Ramon and Hilde<\/b> we made sure that participants are getting a lot of PR knowledge during PRES1 week and go back home, full of motivation to improve the situation in their locals! Now I am looking forward to hear them getting active in AEGEE even more :) Special thanks to girls from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.best.eu.org\/index.jsp\">BEST<\/a> and PRIME who also came as participants &#8211; it was very interesting to see and hear external opinion time after time.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_96fXr_yXeV0\/SxOiukMrhMI\/AAAAAAAAAZY\/M9zKz8doEL4\/s200\/100_3804.JPG\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409846498276639938\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">Afterwards, going back to Brussels and experiencing trains being late (again), <b>I picked up my sister and my grandmother from the train station &#8211; they came<\/b> here from Latvia <b>to visit me<\/b> for four days and left just this morning. Trying to show them the best of Brussels, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antwerpen.be\/\">Antwerp<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitgent.be\/\">Ghen<\/a>t was a challenge as different people have different interests, but we managed to combine them and enjoy our time together &#8211; I haven&#8217;t seen both of them since April, when I left my home country, and I won&#8217;t see them again in the next few months for sure.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><img src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_96fXr_yXeV0\/SxOjAVN15kI\/AAAAAAAAAZg\/vX5iy0sWqWM\/s200\/SDC11502.JPG\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409846803492628034\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">All? No, not at all! For the weekend, also some of my <b>best friends<\/b> I met in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=21888479143\">Caucasus TSU 2008<\/a> <b>d<\/b><b>ecided to come over to have our reunion<\/b> as we did not have one since the New Year. So from Friday till Sunday during the day I was exploring Belgium together with my family, but in the evenings &#8211; enjoying the presence of my friends. Few hours of sleep, a lot of walking, talking and having fun!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_96fXr_yXeV0\/SxOjUcnkkKI\/AAAAAAAAAZo\/ilZWEh82s6U\/s200\/SDC11474.JPG\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409847149076975778\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">Last, but not least &#8211; yesterday <b>Polish mafia in the CD House<\/b> (as Natalia from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commissions.aegee.org\/netcom\/\">Network Commission<\/a> is currently doing her NetCom trip and visiting locals nearby Brussels) <b>had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/polish\/andrzejki-%E2%80%93-the-night-before-st-andrew%E2%80%99s-day\/\">St. Andrzejki<\/a> party<\/b>, so we invited some friends over <b>to find out<\/b> their and our <b>future<\/b> through Polish traditions. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:'trebuchet ms';\">Now, when almost everybody has left, we can turn all our attention just to daily work. However, I still need to remember that there are duties that never end &#8211; like taking care of family and friends.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">> My last week was so crazy and full of different happenings, that I even did not have any time to write about it. Trying to catch up now and do it all at once! :) So what exactly did happen? At first, it was PRES1 Leiden (Public Relations European School), where from Monday till Wednesday I was giving workshops&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2009\/11\/30\/neverending-duties\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}