And here I am, back to my blog updates.

It has been a bit busy time in July - AI transition (with party included), travel to Portugal for Pita&Anya's wedding, our last team days with my AI team (we have rented a boat and went sailing as much as you can do in Dutch waters), spent a couple of days more in Amsterdam.

But that's all coming soon (I mean my stories about that), and first things first: I'm at home now.

To make a long story short - I've finished my term in AI and went to Belarus, to my parents house, to spend a couple of months as my vacation. At the end of August I am going to Poland to meet my first MC team (Masha, Dasha, Marek) - "coincidence" but we have our MC re-union at the times of IC :))) So I plan to see some other friends around, say last "bye" to AIESEC at our AI handover session. Then back home for September, and back to Poland for a week-end for Mike Janiszweski's wedding. All in all enjoy being an alumnae :) (well, not quite, as I plan going for an AIESEC internship). And this is precisely my job plan - somewhere around October-November I plan to go on an internship. This is a task to match my ambitions and aspirations with my skills and experience. I believe somewhere in endless pools of TNs there is the one waiting for me :) Searching so far.

So it's been a week as I'm at home.
It is Svisloch, a small town in western Belarus (a couple of dozens km away from the polish border), where my parents live, for 15 years already (we are from other places ourselves - see my 100 things post).

And no, I'm not bored. I'm doing exactly what I wanted badly - not much doing :) 2 days to unpack my stuff, watching TV and movies, reading books, magazines, sleeping A LOT (there has been no day I woke up before 9 am). And at the same time I don't feel quite as on my vacations. Because vacations (as the one I had in Egypt) - it's when you are resting in a place done for resting, and there is only you deciding what's going on after that next swim. Well, home-sweet-home is a different place.
I missed my parents (well, have to admit I haven't seem them well this year - 2 times for 1 day each), and it was good to see that Mom looks great for her 50, Dad is the same Man in the house hehe :) However the thing that hit me - I am no longer used to share my life with other people. I've got independence over last 8 years I has been living on my own, with short visits home. And now there is my family that wants me be part of it again - having dinners when it's time to, not when I'm hungry, doing some work about the house because my Mom needs it… It's not bad, just different for me, but I'm getting used to it. Anyways, it's good to be back to the place where you are taken and loved as you are :)

And things got different in the town. It is no longer a forgotten hole (mind you - we have 10.000 people population) - we've got many new shops (now over several dozens, but yes, still no supermarkets and I don't predict any), a couple of re-building houses, and I even got internet at home in 1 day!!! Yes, this is the biggest development I feel personally - can't believe I'm sitting in my old room with a laptop connected to the worldwideweb :)))

The other big thing - the speed of life is different here. If in Europe I felt myself relatively young in comparing to others (I'm 23) - here I'm feeling much older. Half of my former class-mates from school are married and have babies. I met a girl we used to be friends with before I left for long, and she has a baby 4 months old, she's a mother! For me that's too early (it seems she thinks the same) - but that's the way things happen here.
Oh no-no, it doesn't make me desperate to get married, there is a loooong way to it :) But interesting to be a part of this life - which used to be mine, and which is of my friends.

Seems like a lot of impressions for the first week :)

To be continued