I am staying another 5 months in Hungary :)

Niklas Staying in Hungary  & the following celebrations

It has been finalized, I will stay in Hungary and Pannon for the next 5 months as well! :)  Feels awe-some for me as my girlfriend is living here nowdays but also because it’ll give me the chance to stay on and be able to follow through on a lot my work here.  

So of course this happy turn of events required some celebrating.  Friday was spent in a house party, 20 people and 12 nationalities. Mexican burritos, hungarian snacks and italians wines. Most importantly however, I finally found some guys who are as soccer interested as I am, a big corner stone for the quality of my life… Probably for my girlfriend as well as she will now not be forced to watch champions league every second tuesday and wednesday…

Saturday was dinner at my bosses place with a bunch of couples, again a whole range of nationalities. Spent a long time discussing what it is like having a relationship with someone from a different culture, a topic that lies close to me as my girlfriend is Mexican. We got input from a Norweigan couple, a Slovenian couple, an Hungarian, Perubian and a Dutch and a Romanian one… a very interesting perspective to use for exploration of different cultures!

Machine-to-machine takes me travelling

On top of staying and working for Pannon i will also work 50% for Telenor Connexion, the newly started M2M company within the Telenor family. As M2M is one of the areas I find most interesting within Telenor, I am really excited about it. Being a part of setting up this totally new company is going to be a lot of fun! First job was to go to Denmark and attend a 2-day workshop trying to map out the demands this company will be facing from various stakeholders. A really nice workshop and fun being back in Demark again, been a while since I was there.

In addition to that my job within M2M has also taken me to Rome and Amsterdam the last couple of weeks. Rome was really interesting, a conference on how to use mobile communications to improve health care quality. As it happens, Pannon is pretty far within this area already having launched a mobile EKG which was met with a lot of enthusiasm.

Well, that was all for now… You’ll be hearing from we soon again I suppose as my Hungarian adventure continues.

/Niklas