First meeting with the project team

So, after hanging around a lot and relaxing in the sun. Finally the work started - or at least kind of.

Monday - hanging around the city:
Since I alreay explored the inner city and a part of the other river side I now went to the right. So I found a famous cathedral St. Sava or so. It's pretty impressive from the outside, but they are not finished building it. So it is empty from the inside. I also noticed that in front of the chruches and cathedrales --> there are the beggars, holding open their hands for money and also running after people. I have to say: I don't like that.

So I was walking around a lot again and sometimes sitting in the sun, relaxing and reading. I haven't done this for quite a while! So I'm loving it! I also just set down at the parque and watched the sun go down. With hundreds of Serbians beside me. I guess they really like to be outside.

I also seem to blend in pretty well. Lots of people are starting to sell me something in Serbian or asking me for their way.

Today!
Oh, the huge group from the weekend came back from their field trip to the hostel.
The main disadvantage are:

• It is really loud.
• If I stand up from my seat in the chill out room, I most likely will loose it as it is too small for that many people. So I cannot stand up.
• They block all the bathrooms, because they all want to shower. This means you cannot go on the toilet and you will not have warm water later. (Lucky me! I have showered before them in the morning :-)).
• The room is full again and a huge mess.

So tomorrow the group will leave and I will then be joined by other AIESECers. Still I think living in a hostel for 7 weeks will become a challenge.

In the afternoon Joanna which is the VP Responsible for the project picked me up at the hostel. She showed me the AIESEC office and we were chatting till the meeting would begin.
So currently there are 10 VPs in the LC and about 120 members!!!! There are I think 3 LCs in Belgrad and the MC is around the corner somewhere. They have 6-7 projects running right now. And lots of them will be finished in April - which means I will see them :-).

For the meeting we met with the project leader and two team mates. The Brasilian guy and the girl from Ukraine will arrive the next days.
A boy told us about our first project company. His father ist the owner. It is a medium/small sized company which trades car parts. Their main target group is mechanics, but they have trouble reaching them with their marketing. So it sounds pretty interesting! We will meet with the owner/his father the next days and then come up with ideas, how to improve his marketing and use the budget more effectively.