Cluj-Napoca

11/3

I got up at nine something and went to the train station with Mada. It was so lucky that Mada was with me because the train was delayed again for 40 minutes. She stayed with me and we talked with lots of things, like economy, politics, police, etc. If she weren’t here, I may start to worry because the train hadn’t arrived for so long and it was a bit dangerous for me to stay in train station for so long alone. Finally, I got on the train and I really missed Brasov. But life must go on…

Train was heading to northern part of the country. It was quite boring in the train, so I started to write the blog entries during the journey. There was a very interesting thing I encountered on the train. The train officer asked me for the ticket to give to someone, which means that she was going to let some people travel without any cost. After long haul journey, I arrived at Cluj around 5:30pm. And there was a punch of people holding the banner to welcome my arrival, thus I was so happy about that. There were almost 10 people, including Laura, Oana, Anca, Ella and so on. I knew that I will be very integrated to this LC because people there were awesome.

We first went to the AIESEC office, which was as nice as the office in Brasov. Anca, who was the OCP of CR Revolution (an outgoing PBoX related to CSR), let a place for me to sleep. I was also having fun in the office, with the surprise that everyone knows my name…I was so famous here. Finance team was doing a handcraft in the office, which was about the project 2%. It was about contributing 2% of the income as tax deduction to AIESEC, which was a NGO here. It was just so funny!

Oana, who was the VP ICX (non-corporate) elected, accompanied with me to meet people from NGO for the project. We had a short meeting in a café nearby. The NGO was an environmental related organization, which had just resturctured the hierarchy. I will be working there for launching some projects, at the same time, doing some coaching and training for the members. It sounded interesting to me as it was not so developed for the organization. Whether they will accept me as their intern is crucial to raise sponsorship for my food and accommodation. I am looking forward to work in this organization and achieve more, thus helping this organization to grow.

I bought some instant noodles before going to Anca’s place. I missed food in Hong Kong a lot, so I was excited that I would find some instant noodles here. Anca told me a lot about the PBoX I am going to help. I was invited to tell delegates about CSR in China and Hong Kong. Anca was the kind of person who cannot live without music. She also showed me numerous postcards that were written in different languages, which were given by trainees. I will write her some Chinese words too in the future. Cluj was really a nice city to stay and I haven’t made a wrong decision to come here.

At train station- so warm

AIESEC Office at Cluj

Drawing and fun