Trainee gathering in Budapest

All the 12 trainees gathered in Hungary last week to participate in our four days seminar which was a special “transit room” before we started the last module of the trainee programme.

It took some days for all of us to “check in” the seminar programme. Almost everybody was moving from one country to another, one position to another, one task to another and probably from one state of mind to another. This is definatly something what we got with the programme: an opportunity to continuos change. It is always time to change! However, it feels good sometimes to sit down, lay back and reflect a bit on what has happened in the last six months. Talking with the others, sharing some toughts, experiences, having some fun help us to see things from a different point of view.

Meeting with the Hungarian trainees

After a couple of days of trainings and endless talks we spent a really good time in a Hungarian restaurant together with the Hungarian trainees. We had the chance to meet and share experiences besides huge portions of meals. Not only the dinner was brilliant, but our colleagues showed their talent in adapting to our culture. Till the end of the evening everybody managed to learn the meaning of some hungarian key words, such as “pálinka,  gulyás and egészségedre”. After the dinner some of us took part in an alternative crash course about Budapest nightlife and gained some deeper experience with the above mentioned focus areas

Anyway, I was really glad to have the seminar in Budapest. On one hand I felt good about sharing “my” city with the trainees, on the other hand it was nice to meet my friends or just watch people walking on “körút”, speak finally in hungarian, feel the autumn sun and gaze at the Danube…hmmm. I was relaxed and ready to leave “the transit” and start on Monday.