To-Do List

I had a talk with my manager yesterday, and I am forever grateful for my manager's understanding and virtue. He allowed me to take five days off from work in order to be a facilitator at NPS! I was actually invited by Kai to attend a regional conference in his region in Germany because he'd be able to pull some strings to give me a position in this conference, but I have to regretfully decline that offer. Flying to and from Germany just to be there for less than a week, come back to Romania to work for one more week just doesn't sound so efficient.

Now I need to get busy, because now I need to multi-task, which is something I fail miserably at doing.

To-Do List for the next few days...

1. Be prepared for my sessions at NPS - As Dale Carnegie once said, "Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident." My favorite professor at Georgia Tech that I took three courses with spends about four hours to prepare for one of his one hour lectures. Sessions are different from lecture in a sense that encouraging participation of delegates is more important than me speaking and presenting information without flaw for two hours. But I must spend a lot of hours into preparation regardless.

2. Endorsement Letter - A rough draft of it shall be completed today.

3. Planning my trip back - My internship ends on Friday, December 12th. My flight back to US from Amsterdam takes off on 23rd. I have more than a week to spare, so why not go to Amsterdam early, and travel around Netherlands and Germany for the first time? I'm sure there's enough out there to keep me busy for about 9 days.

And I may end up going to a global village in Iasi this weekend because I was asked to represent Japan, and was told that almost all trainees from Romania are coming for this event. The last time I was told that trainees from all over Romania are coming there were only 5 including myself, so let's hope that there are more than 5 trainees in Romania this weekend :)

Let's get busy!