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Last time I posted was about a month ago but a lot of things have happened since, it seems as if my life is getting more and more chaotic and unpredictable. The joys of being young and free! Starting back off from Romania, came back to Barcelona for my final month, that was simply amazing! Made some more friends, had some more office parties and outings, went to London for training and had an amazing time, then following week off to Berlin to catch up with friends from Germany and UK! I will do a small stop at Berling, because I was blown away by how much I enjoyed it!! I was really excited and I was right, everything about the city excites me, from the food and markets, to the shops and techno parties everywhere, to the photobooths and art present everywhere, to the AIR concert and general people's vibe of the place! I got to see the Berlin wall that was hosting a Syria war exhibitions and reminded me of Amsterdam and the photo exhibition I was at with Fanni! Also, Fanni came...

The last time I posted on this blog, I was back from Brussels and in Oxford, travelling to the UN summit in Geneva. Since then a very awful lot of things have happened!! All exciting and very different, sometimes scary. Longer than a year ago I last posted on this blog, now I am writing from my holiday back home in Romania as a BAM graduate and also employee in a cool tech company in their Barcelona office!! Oh, how life has its funny ways. So, to have a quick recap, in May 2015 I attend the WHA youth summit I co-chaired in Geneva, I fell in love with Devon in the summer of the same year and had a long time affair with it until December, visiting monthly or more. In the summer I came back to the motherland for a while in July and then back to the UK for the last leg of my degree, and to write my dissertation. The last year had been somewhat lacking in foreign escapes as I was mostly in the UK, going to Devon and sometimes visiting friends in other cities. Understandable, as I was ...

My journey to ASHA began in a very peculiar way, and even now I cannot pinpoint how I applied and how I was blessed to have my path guided to this healing and developing wonderful oasis. It is very hard to condense all the stories and teachings that I take back with me from this amazing experience, but I will try. The first lesson I learnt was about Ahimsa, which means infinite love, but also infinite capacity for suffering, which is one of the guiding principles in life, everything needs to be in a balance and a real leader needs to master the art of balance. The time spent at ASHA on the Social Entrepreneurship course has freed me from so many restraints that I build on myself and my relation to others. I am now more knowledgeable, and I know my other 33 new friends from 9 different countries on the course, including Romania, Italy, Poland and The Netherlands, feel the same. Even from the first day we all had a connection, we are a balanced group that has managed to make ASHA our ...

So I am back in Oxford and busier than ever!! I am doing a lot of things I love and meeting with some lovely and inspiring people! However, I was in Geneva for the first time this week for two summits at the UN on the right to health and access to medicine! I am so impressed and motivated to go on with my dream of working in international development and I will not give up! Geneva is beautiful and the UN is such an inspiring place to be in if you want to meet people that will help you change the world into a better place! I had 3 days of intense discussions, debates and at the end a speech, that was very well received and thoroughly congratulated on mobile tech and access to health. Sometimes, I cannot believe what I am doing, the places I am going and the people I am meeting! I am so blessed in so many ways and next week I will be away for a full week course on social entrepreneurship!!! So chuffed! Until then, love and light!

Since last month, January has come and gone, and so have I! I was in Romania for a couple of days to catch up with my life and family but also to think through what I want to do next! It is not very easy but I think I have taken the right decision, to leave! Beginnings and endings are always hard but I do believe that sometimes there is no other way to take your life back than to leave and start again. Therefore, I have left Brussels after 5 months and I am now enjoying my first day back in Oxford, England. I cannot explain how tired I am but at the same time how relieved I am. Now it's time to start anew and the good thing is no one is really expecting anything of me for now. SO a clean slate! I have already gone and involved myself into some projects and am loving the freedom that I have, hope it stays that way! Love and light, always!

So it's the beginning of January, a new year, and I'm finding it hard to find... Find what you might wonder, find myself, find happiness, find a purpose and find a path, find all what I have lost. I feel trapped and I feel powerless and because of these I feel angry! I went home in England for two days for Christmas, I travelled by bus because they were the only time fitting options I had and I felt happy, I met old friends and old places, I embraced their reality and my feelings and memories with them. I momentarily found myself again but then I was lost when I returned to this grey, foreign city, that slowly withers my soul. I am now looking forward to going home in Romania, to letting the snow cover my wounds and the warmth in my parent's "chemin" melt my worries. I am me again and I am free, as a lioness released from her cage and let to roam free on the plains of Africa. But this freedom won't last long, it will be only a short moment of sweet libera...

I have been really caught up in settling in Brussels over the past months and I made a to do list, including a blog post on my past 3 months, so here it goes!!! I am missing Africa like crazy and I am trying to enjoy my life in Belgium as much as I can but I have a little virus, called wanderlust, that is preventing me a bit from it. My job is going very well and I realised two thing, the first, that I want to work in operations, and the second that I want to work in International Development, so far so good. OCTOBER- I went to Paris for the weekend with a friend and it was amazing, great weather, great views, great food, great overall. I visited the Luvre and Versailles and it was truly breathtaking, but as much as I like visiting Paris, I would not like to live there, too crowded and urban for my liking. NOVEMBER-  I got the chance to go back to England for an all paid residential with the British Council on active citizenship, which was awesome and I got to meet ...