Indre reports from Lithuania

Short story

Wednesday Chicago 3 pm
Cd for Lelis is burnt
Laptop packed ..except for the cord ..to be found later
Said good bye to everybody
Cab driver ..guess from where .. Riga - my prelast travel point
says Polish, Ukrainians and Lithuanians are biggest immigrants communities in chicago
reached airport .. 5 terminal
Ooops ... laptop cord left in Kraft
Do not have it yet :) will get one tomorrow
Aer lingus ..greenish airlines with 6 kg allowed to plane ..
some repacking ... and boarding
security guy takes my small bag on the side
something must be wrong
he finds the scissors
they look really old ..guess what does he do?
puts them back again:)
left my lighters too
Flight ...
So tired ..fell asleep right away
Wake up ..lady with the snacks just passed by
Ran after her ..
Got my juice and crackers
Back to sleep
Wake up again ..
Everybody around has empty containers from hot food
Mmmm ..too late to ran after stewardess
But about time to check out Kraft cafeteria salad
Eatable
Back to sleep
Wake up ...
Not again ... coffee smells everywhere ... and stewardess at the end of the plane
whatever ...will wait for the next one
Dublin
One line for EU .. short one
another line for non-EU ... looooooong one
xi xi .. sometimes it is great to be in EU
Foggy Dublin
but warm .. small and friendly
first thought ... cigarette ... do not have any
in the airport there is only one place to buy cigarettes
not a single euro in my pocket ..and they do not accept credit cards
too bad ...
but polish guy next to me helps another eastern european and we are chatting about this and that
went to Dublin from Poland just like that
found a job in Marriot in Cork
likes the country, likes the people
except for fat irish girls
two hours went by .. time to get ready for Ryan air
weighted my luggage ... geile scheise ... laptop cannot be carried as a separate item
so .. I am facing 8 kg overweight or 64 euros
too much
time to beat the system
left my 8 kilos in the locker
checked in .. got luggage back from the locker
ready for Riga
3 hour flight ....doesn't make sense ..but whatever
land ..water ...land ...water ..land ...water .. land
where is this Latvia?
Finally Riga
Flight is late for one hour ... it means I am late for my bus 10 minutes
Next one comes in 4 hours
Great
The best place to spend 4 hours is Riga is bus station
Cafeteria with real plates, real cups and real food
waiting hall with real alkoholics and facility-non-warming policy
all good
4 hour chat with a girl that took the cab with me
Latvian girl met Lithuanian guy in Ireland ..
now moving to live in Lithuania with him ...
all exited ... showed her Valentine card for him
I showed her my pictures
she had some beer
I had some coffee
checked internet
Here is the bus ...
4 am ...back home ...
guess who came back the night before me at 4 am
my brother ...came back from hitch-hiking trip from Moroco
and now ... in Lithuania?
All good ..could not be better
still miss you
c u soon

beso y abrazo, Indre

Garotas? de Ipanema

This was happens when a group of argentine girls goes to Rio de Janeiro.

or somewhere else in Brazil...

Chicago Cab

If New York City is the city where it is hard for taxi takers to find an available taxi, Chicago is the city where it is hard for taxi drivers to find available taxi takers.
This city has a taxi surplus. They are everywhere and a soon as you dare to look on the streets at least one taxi driver will blow the horn or will start yelling at you. In the morning, when I step out of my building, as soon as I put my foot at the pavement, a taxi slows down and gives me the desperate "do you need a taxi?" look.
Sometimes I feel like if I was in the Grand Bazaar with people around me offering leather pillows.

Australian Open Semifinal 1

I'll have to wake up and check if I'm dreaming
— Marcos Baghdatis

Baghdatis está jugando muy bien y por lo tanto se merece el lugar que alcanzó
— David Nalbandian

Meeting and the club

These are some pictures of the AIESEC Northwestern meeting at our place last weekend. Afterwards some of us went to Blu.

You see those "cool" necklaces everybody is wearing? Well, they are from Argentina, designed and produced by a friend of mine. Entirely made of buttons. The good part, they are on sale. Just ask for them. An item every nomad has to have.

Some pictures of the city

by Constanze

Chicago Winter

Some ice skating in Millenium Park followed by a little bit of Poker @ 3000 N Sheridan

Chela beats Hewitt

Chela beats "Mr. Come On" in the Australian Open

"It had been one round later in last year's Open that the infamous spitting incident occurred, Chela having taking exception to Hewitt celebrating his mistakes in a tense fourth set. There was no ugliness last night, not even a "C'mon", just a tight, intense and often dramatic contest on a steamy summer night."

Chicago International Film Festival Session 2

Monday 01/23/2006 8 pm

Tango Feroz, la leyenda de Tanguito (1993)

Directed by: Marcelo Piñeyro
Produced by: Claudio Pustelnik, Katrina Baylonas
Starring: Fernan Mirás, Cecilia Dopazo, Imanol Arias, Hector Alterio
Country: Argentina


Rock singer Jose Alberto Cruz, nicknamed Tango, is the young man whose music and rebelliousness inspire a generation during the late 1960s in Buenos Aires. Charismatic and sexy, Tango draws hoards of young people to steamy underground nightclubs by singing of love and freedom, loyalty and peace. Tango shares the activist views of the students, but he is the product of the barrio, where persecution and torture are a way of life. While being detained by the police for his participation in a student demonstration, Tango meets Mariana, a student committed to freedom but tied to her bourgeois past. Overcoming their class differences, Tango and Mariana fall in love, only to be dealt a devastating blow when the chief of police tries to use Tango as a pawn in his battle to uncover the leaders of the growing youth movement. Despite the brutality and despair of his prison experiences, Tango bravely fights on, living in the hope of being free and reunited with Mariana.

Chicago International Film Festival @ 3000 N Sheridan

Tonite 8 pm showing "Here we are"

Executive Producer Dávid Čorba (Michal's brother)
Country: Slovakia

SYNOPSIS
After the World War II, the Krnáč family moved from Central Slovakia to Sub-Carpathian Ukraine. After a rather controversial accession of this region to the Soviet Union, they fell in a trap with no way out. In line with Khrushchev´s decree, they were forced to settle down in Balgarka, a village in Kazakhstan steppe, where they spent over forty years. After the split of the USSR, they decided to move back to Europe. Sisters Tanya and Anna, Anna’s husband Dimitrij and their children, set out for their journey to Slovakia, a country they knew only from their parents´ stories.
In autumn 2000, Dimitrij Kiossyia’s family leaves their house in Kazakhstan steppe and heads for the country of their predecessors, Slovakia. After their arrival to the Slovak capital, they try to find jobs and accommodation, yet they are not very successful. They travel the country from the east to the west, and see only neglected villages, closed factories and high unemployment. For a short while, it feels as if they were not in Europe.After a long quest, they settle down in a small village in countryside. Parents start working in a local farm and children go to school. However, this new beginning brings more disappointment than joy. Family’s firm bounds are broken. Especially older family members feel uprooted and keep thinking of their lives back in Kazakhstan. And then one day, Dimitrij, the head of the family, decides to go back home…
If you want to check more info about the movie, here is the link:
http://www.myzdes.com/eng_prfilmu.html

BYOB,
3000 N Sheridan
Chicago, IL

Martin's post

Saldy said...

I think I met you at WSC in your room party. You guys (trainees) are really crazy, especially that Polish trainee who was so drunk he keeps passing out and walking around like a pscyho. it's hilarious. You have pretty eyes. lol oh gosh. Hey I hope to see you guys in Mountain Mayhem on March 17-18 in Colorado or Reception Weekend in Austin in April or the Get GOLDEN in YOSEMITE in California in May Memorial day weekend.

Martin (the Polish guy) responds:

Ye ye ye First of all I was not passing out but falling over, 90% of the time intentionally cus i thought it would be funny to fall like Dr. Evil and then quickly get up and announce: 'I am OK'. Second, tell whoever wrote my NYE review to try drinking some quality Australian wine and then follow it by a glass-full of some "American Wine" California.. rightly called by the Britons as "Weak Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine" mixed with some red pigment. Even a
professional drinker would be confused... :)

Indre's comment on the WSC deserves a post...

Indre said...
Some details about Ohio ..Minivan (would be considered super extra large car everywhere except States) with six ready to party trainees
Plenty of crowns for everybody in Burger King
Sauna, jakuzi and swimming pool during sessions in hotel
Japanese guy changing religion from budism to christianity to integrate into American culture
Party where alcohol cannot be served but everybody completely drunk
A lot of dresses and suits
Martin with the shoes and mind lost
Warm klimbing the tree (to be demonstrated some time later)
Hotel room parties at our guys' room with random people passing by
Regular massage sessions
No trainees except us :(
Enormous hunger at 4 am ... followed by poker betting hamburgers and nuggets …
Contacts in Washington, Austin, San Francisco, Buffalo, Dominican Republic
AIESEC dances
Everybody speaking Spanish and way too many people speaking Russian
Wonderful ice cream tasting as butter
Non eatable herring for LT presentation and great Lithuanian beer not allowed to be served
Turkish dances, dutch song, British English lessons for americans
Indian palm reading
Martin's brake dances
Plenty of hip hop and house music
International trainee perspective on cloning (Constanze), drugs policy (Kaushik&Christoph), misconceptions about religion (Indre)
Martin going to the car to listen to Madonna at 5 am.
NO CAR COLLISIONS with Indre driving half of the time …
Back to Chicago ... to move some furniture from Ricardo place

t.A.T.u.

"The master plan demanded girls looking as young as possible, with Lolita appeal and lesbian sex, exactly what lusty old men wish for according to Shapovalovs Internet research."

"In the meantime, the girls can safely admit that both are actually thoroughly heterosexuals, that their boyfriends are waiting for them in Russia and that they understand the rules of the popstar game just as well as their cunning producer."

Maxima 181

Las mujeres que llevan desodorante en la cartera, son trepadoras.
"Women who take deodorant in the purse, are go-getters"

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WSC

The conference was a lot of fun. We met a lot of people from all over the US. Michigan, DC, Kansas etc. It was amazing how many people had been to Argentina or had plans to go there soon. I was also impressed by the amount of non-native spanish speakers.We all had a great time there. Thank you Farid and NU LC for the support.

Of course, Farid. 

More GV 

Rachel from Kansas 

... 

Global Village in Ohio 

More Ohio 

NYE in Ohio 

And here we are enjoying the sushi and sake. 

With my sister in town, the first weekend we rented a car and drove to Ohio for the AIESEC conference. Martin, Indre, Karol, Lil' Kaushik, Cochi and me. 

The first week back in Chicago we went to Karol's place in Evanston to make sushi. I did pretty well for a first timer. 

And back to Chicago. During my trip to Buenos Aires I realised home for me was Chicago now. It was weird staying in te guest room in my parents house.

Chys en Icaro 

Chepo, Colo en Icaro 

Caripelas 

Icaro, Navidad 2005 

Fede, Mapa y yo, cagandonos de risa en una fiesta en la loma de orto 

Comida en lo mamas Dec 2005 

Asado en casa 17 Dec 2005 

Niceto

Mariana en Niceto. Buenos Aires Dec 2005

Announcement

I barely have comments in my blog, so I'm going to give free "Christoph's love" ticket to all the girls who leave comments.
Farid, I know you left a comment, but those tickets don't apply to you.

Indre

I think Indre is pissed off today.