13th & 14th Weekend

It was a fun weekend I must say. I will try and summurize it.

Saturday:
There was a legislation weekend for @ Lviv, and the announcement of new membership status in the LC. You know what, for the @ers in Lviv to become a full member, he/she needs to achive certain criteria, sumbin a quaterly review form, have a review board with their EBs and submit another full member application form with recommendation letter from one of the full member in the LC, WOAH~ Then they granted a girl an alumnus status.

Then the second half of the session was about the performance of the LC. OMG! Their performance, measured SMARTly, totally impressed my. They had for example an initiative, with the initiative begining date, and ending date, goal and achived goal % in the end of the initiative date. Man, @ in Lviv really is something, they set their goals high, and they achived good result, most of them are about 80% achived from communication, information management, project, talant management, leadership application, finance etc.

@ in Ukraine has about 900 members, 16 LC and another new one I heard is about to be born. Their members are super positive, awesome, smart, friendly, passionate they are VERY DIFFERENT background and they achive results. @ in Kiev, Lviv and Donetsk are the best LC in UA, they are best in different area and @ Lviv rocks!

However, the 10.30am-3pm session wasnt all fun t me, they were in Ukrainian and for some staged I was so bored that I wish I could sing some Jay Chou to them.

After that we went for a short drink, it was 3pm right... Then everybody went home before 6pm. It was about 20+ of us and it was hard fr us to find a place to go in the popular Saturday. By the way, I was sitting opposite this @er and she is OMG pretty. SO many pretty gals in Ukraine! I dont want to go back home(s)!!! Let me stay here with one of the Ukrainian gal please!!!

Sunday:
After the tiring early battle with the mouse, I was ready for a futebol game with Slavik. He met me infront of the Opera House in town then me caught the marshutka(bus) to his place. It was cold, -3c for yesterday, and there were some winds.

I arrived at his place and the futebol field is just infront of his house, as concrete field with 2 goals but no nets. I used the internet at Slavik's place for a bit then we were getting ready for the game. I should be more prepared next time, I would need to wear more in their winter...

It was 4 aside futebol and all of them except me are just staying around the area and most of them live opposite the field too. It was so cold that My ears were like 'burning'. Then when the wind blows, it was so so cold...

More about the game. Both teams are quite equal, our score were close. The game finished by 1 team scoring 10 goals 1st. It was scary playing on concrete and on my shorts. I dnt want to fall down or run too fast, it's gonna be nasty when I fall, the condition on the surface was the worst I've been playing in NZ. So I was a bit cautious and I played my worst game in months, scoring 0 goals and lost 8-10. It feel shit not scoring goals in 4 aside game, normally I score quite some goals :~( Anyway, it was a really good game and if Slavik ask me to play again, I'm sure I'm gonna score or I will change my name to something else. By the way, I ran so much and I couldnt break a sweat, it was the 1st time in my life playing futebol and not sweating!

Went back to Slavik's home, and his mum prepared us some food. OMG! yummy Ukrainian food!!! Smachnoho (bon appetite)!!! There were borsh (red soup), kartoplia (potato), miaso (meat), rieba (fish) and other more. Yummy food man, yummy! Especially after the 1 and a half hour futebol game.

Then I had 2 cups of tea, Slavik had 3... and we talked for hours. Well, Slavik is 18 now, he was on the EB when he was 16, and now he is on the NST, and he is just 18... He couldnt understand English and he was like a wood on his 1st @ conference but then he is now fecilitating some sessions and he was the OCP for one of the national conference recently. He knew what he wants to become in the future, and his rle as a Information Management NST is teaching him more than his university. He may now consider applying for MC or complete his studies. As you can see, Slavik is a cool, friendly and handsome guy in @ Lviv/UA.

I got some Ukrainian music from him and I showed him one of the episode in Romance of the 3 Kingdoms (San Guo Yan Yi) my favourite novel/history book. I showed him how ZheGe KongMing 'borrowed' 100,000 arrows from Cao MengDe. Hopefully he found it interesting, well I did, again, LOL!!!

One more thing at Slavik's house, I met this cat of his, Chris. According to Slavik, the Siberian cat, Chris is a present from his friend. OMG, I love dog so much and dog is definitely men's best friend, but this cat, OMG, was super cute!!! CHIU KAWAII!!! That was probably the cutest cat I've ever seen! He is still very young, 1++ months old. Very friendly, active and adorable. It has long grey hair, small and flexible body and soft palms, waaahahahaha. Chris was climbing up the chair, maybe he thought he is a monkey, and he was playing with shoe lace, my leg! my shorts etc. It was fun playing with him! If I ever want to have a cat in my life, which I never ever want a cat anymore because I would love to have a dog instead, Chris maybe an exception :D

End of the mouse fight episode 1 when I got home (hopefully no more drama after this... but I think there is still another one in the room...).

SO!!! FUN WEEKEND!!! UKRAINA! UKRAINA!