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What we did in Copenhagen on our second
ExCo meeting
Almost as if the Congress in Croatia finished few days ago,
there it was - meeting in Copenhagen was here, about to begin.
Another chance to see the same good old faces: Mr. president
(as I managed to blab when I saw her firstly in CPH ) Jean,
Rangi (our faithfull and hardworking information officer).
Boris (& inevitable hugging and kissing), Charlotte (with
a few visions always on her mind) Val ( THE brainstormer of
this meeting), Catherine who joined us the day after, the
same as Phillip, our computer guru for this occasion. Unfortunately,
Henrik couldn't join us, but as we found out later, he won't
be joining us at all, due to some unpredicted circumstances
- sorry to hear that! There were, ofcourse, all the Danish
people we met and loved at the Croatia's Congress - Laerke,
Vivi, Tina + some new: Chris, Signe, Tenna… who all took great
care that we felt like home all the time.
So, as you can presume, we worked hard,
concentrating on issues that were put in front of us , with
meetings starting early at the break of dawn, finishing late
in the evening…
Well, not exactly, but I can tell you
we made quite a good job in that 3 days we had. Meetings just
flew under Jean's guidance (hmm…as we see it, maybe it was
because John was not arround to make fuss? ), with great assistance
and fantastic ideas our dear Val came out with - thank you,
Val, we'll never forget your efforts :) As the meeting table
was getting more and more crowded with papers, magazines,
food, personal belongings, laptops and stuff, (as you can
see on the picture!) agenda was slowly coming down to it's
end …
The organizers had some extra activities for us, too. They
showed us around the Faculty premises (everybody told us about
big gas explosion a year ago), and beautiful surroundings
made a good scenery to take some exco pictures, as you can
see..
Fabulous dinner that was carefully prepared
(and not that carefully eaten) for us at Vivi's place was
a great chance for all of us to get to know each other better,
try our luck on throwing the dyce (unlucky-ones had to wash
the dishes!), hear stories about what danish vet-freshmen
do on their motivation week (!!), or try to not get your hair
eaten by Vivi's cats (I just loved that cats!). After the
voluminous meal we have fitted into our stomachs, I really
don't know how I managed to cycle up to Tina's place, where
I stayed while being in CPH. Yes, "up to", I lived
on the only existing hill in Denmark!! And I think this is
a good time to say a big THANKYOU to Tina, for letting me
stay at her place, drive her bike, (almost) burn her kitchen
and other nice stuff like that…
After we were done with the meetings
and workshops, all the decent people went home, but me and
Boris abused Danish hospitality and stayed a little bit longer.
Just didn't want to go home. We wanted to see some more of
beautiful Copenhagen (and Malmoe too), do some shopping and
spend some more time with our great hosts (I'm sure they didn't
have anything better to do than to take care of us:)!!
Thanks guys, it was great to see you all in
your beautiful town, and it's even better to know we are going
to see each other again and again…
Lada
Radin
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