12.21.08
The wedding
A family friend got married and it was a great chance for me to try out my new camera and improve my photographing skills.
There are more photos on facebook (public).
12.12.08
Cheap plain tickets
Because I’m obsessed with traveling, I spend aproximately an hour every day (or, if I put another way: 5 hours or so a week, mostly during the weekend) just cheeking out places I could go to, hostels there and ways to get there, travel guides and photos of other people that traveled around the world (send me some if you have any =P). Since I have no real money to travel outiside Europe (I don’t even have money to travel in Europe, but nevermind that, one can dream and hope and has birthday parties to collect some money from relatives) I have untill now mostly checked-out train connections and prices. But a friend has asked me, if I would be interest in going to St. Petersburg with her this summer (on which I replied: “Hell yeah!” or something like that anyway), and it’s a bit long way to travel by train, so I started checking out cheap flights (with help of this website). And the results are amazing! These are just a few I found, and the prices includes all taxes and charges! Of course you have to check the dates a little and find cheaper ones, but now somehow, traveling long distances doesn’t seem so impossible anymore.
A return ticket from:
- Ljubljana to London: about 70 €
- Ljubljana to Prague: about 100 €
- Vienna to St. Peterburg : about 200 € (+58 €*)
- Vienna to Helsinki: about 150 € (+58 €*)
- Vienna to New York: about 500 € (+58 €*)
*for a train ticket from Ljubljana to Vienna and back
12.11.08
I met Al Gore!
Yesterday I, with about 40 other receivers of Zois’s scholarship had a chance to go and listen to Al Gore’s presentation the Inconvinient truth.
Al Gore was invited to Slovenia by Diners club and we had an unique chance to go and see his presentation, just because we receive Zois’s scholarship (and we are, then, the best young minds of our country =P). While a big number of eminent guest payed quite a bit to be there (about 1000 € per person), we where there for free and beside that had an excellent view from the balcony. The presentation itself was mind-blowing, the most scary part of it being the graphs that show the changes the environment is undergoing and compare it to the changes that happened before. A relatively calm graph always starts raising crazily after the 1970, which makes you really think: what the hell are we doing with the environment?
Al Gore also took a picture with us after the presentation and told us a story about the average age of engineers that cooperated in the first landing on the moon: 26. That means they were 18 when president Kennedy announced that in 10 years, the USA will be landing on the moon. “So,” he said “You are the ones that can really make a change now.”
I was searching for a picture of us with Al Gore forever, but every single website only decided to publish the pictures of him and the prime minister. So I’m posting a random one. Hopefully at least one or two newspapers will publish it (though I highly doubt it).
