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The week number Seven

Hi, there...
Well, I am working at Tech Tour for almost two months already.

These two months past really fast, I thought it would last longer.
This is my weekly blog, and today I will tell you about one more week at Tech Tour.
Today's table of contents:
  1. Other students in Brussels
  2. Walking distances
  3. Tickets to Maastricht
  4. School assignments 

Let's start with the other students in Brussels. Before I came to Brussels, I knew that some of the students from my course, my classmates, also found an internship in Brussels, but I didn't think that we will keep in touch in Brussels.
At the time I came here, they have been here for 1 month already, they contacted me and asked if I would like to go out, to sightseeing Brussels. I agreed, I thought it was very good idea to go out and communicate with other students. Otherwise, I would have just stayed alone, discovering new places by myself.
That day we were walking a lot. I have an app in my phone that shows how many kilometers I am walking every day, and that day we walked more than 27 kilometers, that was something new for me. After this walk we went to their place to watch the movie and I thought that I will walk back home after, it was just one hour walking, but then I became too lazy and just booked the taxi back home.
Look! Almost 30 km.
About the walking distances. I have never walked so much as I do in Brussels. I don't take the public transport or taxi, I prefer to walk. It doesn't really matter how long I will need to walk, I will do it anyway. Every weekend I am going to the center, and it takes me one hour to be there, but this is healthy, isn't it? Public transport is not for free, but walking is for free, and you can use it as an advantage. You are student and you don't have money, come to Brussels and walk, because the roads here go up and down all the time, it's sometimes difficult to walk, and you feel you muscles burning. The best cheap gym ever!:D

Now a little bit about my work placement.
Oh my God! This week was really busy. We have the event in about two weeks, and we need to get ready for it. Companies that will present on the event always calling and asking questions, some of them don't respond, but they suppose to do it, if they are really willing to find the investors. Major things have to be done and this week I was working on those. I needed to redo the web page of the event, I feel like a hacker while doing this, because I am using the codes to make it. I again need to contact the companies to ask them to send all the information I need to proceed, but it is not working with all of them. And then the tickets. I need to book the tickets to Maastricht for 4 persons, but the partner of the company doesn't reply to us, so we cannot make the decision about the booking date. So everyone who's working on this event until now, is under pressure.
And the last one. While working on the event, I was also working on the school assignments. This week I worked on Personal Development form 2 and Me,Myself & I model 2. At the beginning of the internship I did those two, but now I had to make it one more time to see the changes. I think that I had made some changes, some of the points, that I thought were the strong points, became weak points, I found out that I need to improve something, so those can become the strong points.The same worked with the weak points, I have changed some to the strong points. I achieved something during these two months of work placement. Work placement helped me to understand myself better, it helped to figure out what I want exactly, and what I don't want to do in my life. And this Me, Myself & I form helped me to see what kind of general and professional competences I need to improve to achieve my goals.

TO BE CONTINUED....

And the weekly interesting fact is about the place I am going to visit soon:

The oldest Shopping Mall. The galleries Saint Hubert opened in 1847 making them the oldest shopping arcade in Europe. Tourists will find an assortment of high end brands like Delvaux, Belgian chocolate shops like Neuhaus and Pierre Marcolini and other artisanal Belgian shops.

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