Exchange!

This past weekend, I moved to Budapest to work for a company called SELTI International, an English language school, where I will be teaching English as well as taking over as Chief Operating Officer for the company. I found this position through AIESEC, an organization that I volunteered with during university. I will be in Budapest for a year and a half.

While I will maintain this blog for my social media, technology and productivity tips, I will occasionally cross post some of my adventures in Budapest.

In the meantime, check out my blog where I’ll be writing about my time abroad!

Adventures in Target

The best part about going down to the States or any country for that matter is investigating the store shelves and seeing what randomness you can find – especially at a grocery store!

A variety of different animal crackers. Every wanted a Chicken in a Bisket? I wonder if these are Chicken flavoured, or just salted. Or what about these pink Circus Animals? The colours just turn me off. I know we have Goldfish here, but what about RAINBOW goldfish? C. made us buy these, but we haven’t opened the package yet.
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Seattle – A Doughnut Adventure

Last week, in a last minute decision, I decided to go to Seattle for random adventures. These random adventures ended up involving ridiculous amounts of food and shopping. What started out as a day and a half trip, turned into two days. We would have stayed longer except I had to come back for my last dental check up before heading out to Budapest.

The trip involved many doughnuts – in total we went to three doughnut places! First was Top Pot Doughnuts where we tried their chocolate glazed and cinnamon sugar. The chocolate glazed one tasted stale and a bit dry, but the cinnamon sugar was delicious. Light and fluffy with the right amount of sugar.

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Pecha Kucha Night Vancouver vol. 16

Last week, I attended my first Pecha Kucha Night Vancouver and was completely blown away by the number of passionate people in the city. Pecha Kucha is a style of presentation: 20 images, 20 seconds, resulting in each presentation being approximately 6 minutes and 40 seconds. It keeps presentations short and concise and keeps the momentum going from presenter to presenter.

I wasn’t really sure what to expect. In many ways I thought it would be like TED talks, which I absolutely love. The line up of presenters sounded really interesting and I was looking forward to seeing and hearing what they all had to share.
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#YVRTwestival

Last night I attended Twestival 2011 Vancouver at the Vancouver Lookout at the top of Harbour Centre. I’ve lived in Vancouver for years, and I’ve never been up there. It was a perfect evening to go up as well. The sun was shining and we could watch the sun set from the top. So gorgeous!

The view from the top

Twestival (aka Twitter Festival) is a gathering of social media users in communities around the world to fundraise for a charity. This year, Twestival went local with each meet up fundraising for a local charity. The Vancouver Twestival fundraised for Beauty Night Social which “builds self esteem and changes lives of women and youth living in poverty through 3 streams of programming: wellness, life skills development and makeovers.”
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#BellaVA TweetUp at Bella Gelateria

Two days ago, I attended my first tweetup. I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve been trying to get active in the Vancouver community and have chatting with people that I had never met in real life.

With @nicolb, @misscheryltan & @kathygko
Photo courtesy of @rickchung

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