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One more week..




Good afternoon everyone.. Or what time is it now at your place?
Today's topics will be as following:

Life outside
Summer time 
Project
Meetings
So let's start with the life outside. What do you think I mean with the "life outside"? For me it is the time that I don't spend in the office now, my free time. Free time? Yaaaay.. Actually, I have plenty of free time, but I think that I am wasting it. I need to start doing something that will move me from "freeze" point. At my free time I am usually trying to relax at home, or I am walking around the neighborhood. By the way my neighborhood is called Ixelles.

It is really nice place to live in, here are a lot of students, because the VUB university is located in the middle of this neighborhood. A lot of parties are held here, but I am not a "party" person, it might sound a bit boring, but I am enjoying my life without parties. I really like the time spent alone, I can think about a lot of stuff. So actually, I have free time after work, when I am watching series or movies or when I am communicating with people. I aslo have some housekeeping work to do. So that's what I wanted to tell you. I got used to do my laundry at home, just put your clothes into washing machine and wait, but here it works differently.
I found out that Brussels has a plenty of laundry shops, on one small street you can find at least 2 laundry shops. I need to wash my clothes there. I have never done it before. Brussels gave me a new experience with the laundry. I think this will be useful the other day or maybe not, who knows?

And again weather. Do you know what? I never thought that Brussels has so unstable weather. At the end of September it was freezing, but now it is hot. I already asked myself a question about the weather. "Does the October know that it is autumn now or it thinks that it is a summer?"
Just look at these weather predictions.

Let's move on to the project. Saxion University of Applied Sciences requires every student to do a project assignment within the work placement organization to be ready for the graduation assignment. This week I started to do my project. It is actually quite interesting to do the project in this company. My colleague figured out that I am doing a small assignment and she asked our fellow colleagues in Sofia to help me if needed. The project is based on the central research question that I need to answer at the end, I just started it, but I already know that it will be difficult, because the company itself is working on the same problem as I stated in my report. Here is my research question: Which marketing tool should Tech Tour implement to attract as many European high technology businesses as possible?
My project started with PDCA cycle and it took me quite much time to finish it. I like that every person in this company is ready to help me with anything I need and that includes the assignment.

And the last topic. Meetings. I think meetings are held by every company: either internal or external meetings. Tech Tour doesn't have any external meetings, but every Friday they have a zoom call, with all Tech Tour employees, including interns. These weekly calls have the chairman/woman and also the person who is taking the minutes, all the minutes are sent to everyone after the call by email. Every week they discuss the updates of the company and what still needs to be achieved. See some points of discussion below:
  • Partners
  • Participants
  • Programme
  • IVC ROUNDTABLE
  • Marketing
I already had meetings at the University, but they were not real. The weekly meeting helps me to figure out how a real company does meetings, and my previous experience helps me during these meetings. There are so many ways of doing the meetings, I am surprised. 
This is mostly it. I told you what I wanted to tell. And now weekly fact:

The Brussels’ International Airport is the world’s largest chocolate selling point.



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