A week

This week was a bit crazy. I’m not used to this.

We had a four days training about new products. Around 20 colleagues participated from Ukraine, CIS countries, Sweden, Finland. Denmark, Germany, including trainers and trainees. It’s not that many people but it was the first time when I had to organize hotel. taxis from the airport to the hotel, transfer from our office to hotel and back, restaurants, lunches and so on. I need to mention that taxis here don’t accept credit card, only cash. And not every taxi is willing to accept euro instead of our local currency. And so on. Plus all foreigners are quite spoiled with service in their countries.

But we made it. And I say, it’s been a great experience to me. But I don’t want to organize it again

We were seated on  chairs like this in the first restaurant. They have quite interesting design. But it’s so uncomfortable. It’s impossible to sit back and relax.

I had a gastronomic surprise. It appeared that nobody except us (Ukrainians) eats sea cabbage (laminaria). Colleagues from Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan tried it for the first time and they liked it. Colleagues from Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Finland) countries have never seen it before, they tried and didn’t like. I thought that everybody knew about cabbage.

From wiki

Same goes to horseradish. Nobody knew what that was at the beginning. But everybody liked it in the end

Well, people from Georgia and Armenia knows about horseradish but it has opalescent color because they don’t add beet-root in it.

I got a lovely present from Armenian colleague Paylak.

I use it as a bag for my new HTC EVO 3D

I asked which language Dutch and Swedish colleagues speak among themselves. It turned out that a Dutch one speaks Dutch and a Swedish one speaks Swedish They usually understand each other. Most of the words are similar, some of them have different meanings but it doesn’t bother them. Some of the expressions in Swedish are so that in Dutch they are considered as an old-fashioned language. And they laugh at each other

It’s very similar to people in Ukraine. For example I speak Russian, my colleague speaks Ukrainian and we can enjoy our conversation this way.

After everybody left we found candies on a table. They were left by our German colleagues.

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