Transmongolian Express Part I
This summer a few friends and I decided to take a different approach on vacations and change the typical beach summer holidays for a new adventure. The challenge: to cross Asia through the transsiberian railway network.
The challenge actually started quite a few months before the trip, as we organized and bought everything on our own. First, being 7 people in total for the trip, it was a tedious work to get to agreements, but with time we learned to be more efficient. Once we had agreed on the route planned and the dates, we set to buy airplane tickets, train tickets, make hostel reservations and arrange visa permits. The plan was to start in Russia, go to lake Baikal, take the trans-mongolian train to Ulaanbaatar, continue to Beijing and end in Shanghai.
Buying the airplane tickets was an easy task with Aeroflot, a russian airline with relatively good service. Buying the train tickes however proved to be a bit more complicated. We ended up buying the train tickets through local agencies, as international trains cannot be bought online. Obtaining the 3 required visas proved also to be a challenge, especially the russian which requires and invitation to the country and hence we had to do it through a travel agency (with the additional costs implied).
The trip started out by flying to St. Petersburg after an overnight flight to Moscow, where we spent a couple days to enjoy the city. We had the opportunity to visit the Peterhof palace and enjoy the russian ballet with Anna Karenina.
Afterwards we flew to Moscow, where we spent another couple of days. Here we made the typical visits to the Kremlin, to Lenin’s mausoleum, the Red square and other areas around the city. I had the great pleasure to meet an old russian friend from university, who gave us the insider tour and took us around all the city. Overall we had a great time in Moscow and it couldn’t have been better.
The transsiberian train route starts in Moscow, but because of time constraints, we decided to cheat a bit and do the first leg of the journey by air. We flew directly to Irkutsk, where we took a local (illegal) taxi to Listvyanka, next to the lake Baikal. Here we stayed for the night in a very nice cabin overseeing the lake. The next day, we began the train journey from Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. This meant 2 nights in train including 7 hours being held up to cross the border. The train was a very interesting experience, meeting new people and even getting to know yourself a bit better 
Russia overall was a great country to visit, and I feel like I need to go back to Moscow and St. Petersburg sometime soon. People are not very used to tourists and the language barrier can make things difficult at times, but it was totally worth it.
It was a long trip and I don’t want to bore you, so I will continue on another post but I leave you with a few pictures I hope you will enjoy.
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- UK Pavilion, Expo Shanghai 2010
Novedades no tan nuevas
Más vale tarde que nunca… y es por eso que aprovecho para poner un par de fotos un tanto retrasadas. Bueno, en realidad no tanto, pero el tiempo vuela y parece que hubiera sido hace años.
Empiezo por fotos de la boda de Mary y Marc, la cual fue tan divertida como emotiva. Tuvo de todo un poco… ‘bloopers’ en la iglesia, invitados tardíos (o de plano ausentes), apagón de luz en la iglesia (durante la sesión de fotos), excelente comida, mucho alcohol, bailarines profesionales, cuenta-chistes con zapatos dispares, etc. En fin, una boda muy completa jeje.
Además, debo decir que quedé con una impresión super positiva del fotógrafo, que aunque ya había visto fotos suyas de otras bodas antes, las fotos que he visto hasta ahora son increíbles. Aunque todavía no están todas listas, dejo un par de muestra de la sesión de fotos en la Feria de Chapultepec
Y bueno, de vuelta a la vida en Madrid no han habido novedades importantes. Me he escapado de las nevadas pero no del frío, aunque por lo menos ya empieza a mejorar la temperatura y los días son mucho más alegres.
Además de alguna que otra fiesta, también me fui un fin de semana a una casa rural con Álvaro y el resto de la familia brasileña-francesa-española-dominicana-bulgara. Muy divertido y la casa de lujo, aunque no sé si es exactamente lo que se conoce generalmente como una experiencia rural… con mesa de billar, televisiones planas, etc.
Y el último viaje fue otro fin de semana a Marruecos, un sitio que tenía muchísimas ganas de visitar y representa mi primer visita a un país musulmán. Definitivamente una experiencia que vale la pena, y más aún bien acompañado, como tuve yo la oportunidad de ir con toda la bola de nokieros y ex-nokieros. Aunque saque muchas fotos, pongo mis favoritas aquí.
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- Feria de Chapultepec 1
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- Feria de Chapultepec 2
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- Feria de Chapultepec 3
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- Marrakech 5
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- Marrakech 4
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- Marrakech 3
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- Marrakech 2
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- Marrakech 1
Ahora, los próximos viajes planeados son a Barcelona y Toulouse… aunque me muero de ganas por visitar Paris, Londres, Irlanda, Alemania, etc etc. En fin, ya veremos a donde nos lleva la vida. Saludos!
Rainy outside?
Is it rainy outside?? Not for me! I can see a beautiful skyline under a shiny blue sky! All thanks to my umbrella which I bought in Frankfurt
Algarve, Portugal
Summer is about to arrive, and it couldn’t be a better time for some days off from work! So last weekend with thursday and friday off, we took off to Algarve, in Portugal!
The whole thing was sort of a last-minute plan… I was told by Alvaro of the plan to go, and friends invited friends and so on, and at the end, it was a huge group of 24 people, and it turned out to be a great trip!
We parted from Madrid on Wednesday afternoon… 3 cars left earlier and our plan was to leave at 6 but obviously some how everyone got delayed and we ended up leaving at 8pm. With 8-9 hours driving ahead it seemed like it was gonna be tough but thanks to the in-car company it turned out to be fun (although still tiring). In our car the official driver was Alvaro and co-pilot Mónica, and we reached the hotel at about 4:30am (I can’t remember if that was local time or Madrid-time).
From then on, the long weekend was sleeping, eating, playing footbal, partying and basically enjoying the beach! Half of the fellow travellers were brazilians, which meant playing football, dancing samba, drinking caipirinhas and basically party all day long! It is amazing how they really do live at a very different pace!
The beaches were very nice… the weather was quite good, although a bit cold, but we still managed to swim in the sea and all. So overall the trip was excellent (except for monkey’s cousin of course) and to top it off Real Madrid won the league when we reached Madrid! Unfortunately I couldn’t make it to cibeles but next year I will
Below are some pictures… hope you like them. Cheers!
Semana Santa @ Torrevieja
Well, it is monday late night (although feels like sunday) and I should go to bed soon but I didn’t want to miss writing about the last week’s trip to Torrevieja and Alicante. So I guess this will be a short post
Accompanied by Alex, Virginia, Miguel and Divya, we followed Tomtom’s directions to Torrevieja. Miguel was kind enough to offer us his place to stay, which is a very nice flat located in the party centre of Torrevieja, just one block away from the sea. Overall the trip was really nice… very relaxed. We didn’t do much except for sleep, eat, drink, play and party, but it was a very welcome break from work routine. We spent endless hours playing parchis (Ludo according to Divya ) and the only bad thing was the weather, which was very chilly, cloudy and with some rain. Still, lots of fun and looking forward to repeat the trip!!
Hope you enjoy the pictures, cheers!
Eurobasket and more…
Well, a few weeks ago there was a contest at work in which the person that made the best pictures (with a Nokia phone obviously ) would win tickets for the Eurobasket tournament here in Madrid. And yes, you guessed right, I did win tickets for 2 quarter-final games! My pictures were not that great, but considering not many people participated hehe, I won 7th place! With this, I won two tickets for the two games on thursday: Russia-France, Spain-Germany.
The first game, Russia-France, was not that good… but the two teams were very close to each other and the match was decided on the last few seconds, which made it quite interesting. Finally Russia won and is today playing the final The second game, obviously Spain won… It was a great game, and at one point Spain had a lead of almost 40 points! Great plays and a great atmosphere!
(You can see the pictures in orginal size at my Flickr page: http://flickr.com/photos/jlecanda/ )
In other news… work at Nokia is going ok. This was a tough week with a lot of work, and as always some tasks are better than others but overall it is going good. Now, I am also taking charge of organizing Nokia’s participation at the Movilforum event of Telefonica. It is something completely new for me (which doesn’t drive me crazy), but I think I will learn a lot from it.
And finally, as you should know, today is Mexican Independence day!! Unfortunately I didn’t had the chance to celebrate it properly (although I did had a lot of fun), but instead I got (a bit) drunk with caipirihnas and surrounded by Spanish people saying stupid comments about Mexico… así que ¡Viva México Cabrones!
Holidays and other news…
With the summer, Spain stops… literally! and Madrid suffers an amazing transformation from a lively city into a deserted one, taken by empty streets, closed shops and sunny evenings. Thankfully, I also had a break from work and got some proper vacations
First of all, an important news is the new acquisition I made hehe. I bought myself my first reflex camera, a Nikon D40. It is an entry level camera but for my inexpertise it is more than enough, and it came in very good time to take pictures during the holidays, which you can check at my Flickr account.
So, having a break from Nokia, I had a week and a half of holidays starting in San Sebastián. I went with Alex and we stayed in San Sebastian as a base, travelling to nearby places from there. Overall I liked it a lot. I had only heard positive comments about the Vasque Country and they are all true. Great food, nice beaches, nice girls and overall a very nice city.
We visited cities along the coast nearby, both on the Spanish side as well as on the French side, and although all the beaches were more than full of tourists, I liked a lot more than one. On the French part we went to St. Jean de Luz, Biarritz and Bayonne, and on the Spanish side to Hondarribia (specially nice), Gentaria and Zumaia. On the way back, we stopped at Guernica and Bilbao. Guernica was a big disappointment, but Bilbao is very nice.
But we didn’t go back to Madrid… instead, we went to a rural house for the weekend with some friends of Virginia. The house was in the middle of nowhere, and we had a good time… definitely very relaxing, with great food and lots of fun. We spent the weekend with Virginia, Isabel, Elena (from Barcelona) and Javier.
We returned to Madrid Sunday afternoon, and after a few hours, I left to the airport with Divya to start the next trip to Barcelona. Although a bit tired from not sleeping at all, we had a great time, doing the typical tour around the city. Although I had been to Barcelona before, I enjoyed a lot the trip… lots of fun teasing Divya and enjoying the beach Barceloneta. I got a good tan from the whole week walking in the sun, and a big sun burn from lying in the beach 
And finally, the holidays are over and now back to Madrid and to work. Although holidays are never long enough, I really needed a break after the master, and this was a very welcomed one. Now back to empty Madrid in an empty flat! Looking forward for work, parties and job hunting!
San Francisco in ruins
This picture was floating around the web a few weeks ago, and I thought it was absolutely amazing but forgot to post it… so finally here it is hehe Taken from a blimp, it shows a panoramic view of San Francisco’s Bay area in 1906 after the earthquake. It is amazing how all the city was planned. Obviously, the golden gate bridge is not there yet
cheers!
San Francisco & Silicon Valley!
As some of you already know, as part of the master we had a very nice trip to Silicon Valley! It truly was a great experience, and by the pictures, this post will be a bit long… but, I hadn’t written in a long time
After a long night and some surprises at the Madrid airport when it turned out that Alex & Jesus had invalid passports, we arrived to San Francisco! The picture is from inside the airport, just after passing customs… and yes, policeman started to shout at us and kick us out! :S
Although all the visits were in Silicon Valley, we stayed at a hotel in San Francisco, just next to China Town… and yes, Yan felt right at home! The hotel was good and next to the city center, and obviously the visit to the Apple store was a must!
On Sunday, we had the ‘official’ tour… we went more or less around all the city. The first stop was the de Young Fine Arts museum, which I liked, but I guess it doesn’t look that good after being compared with the museums of Europe. Still, architecturally is really nice. After lunch, we went to the Golden Gate bridge, to Pier 39, and later the official welcome dinner! It was good and definitely a fun day.
Who is the academic director and who is the student?
So on Monday the real business began The first visit was Cisco. We stayed there the whole day and was generally very good. We had several conferences, some demos of really nice future products and a tour. They showed us their mobile offices, where nobody has an assigned seat, but is a ‘serve as you come’ office. In general very good for people that travel so much. And to finish the day, we went shopping! Coming to the US, this is a must so we went to an outlet.
The second day, after some conferences at the hotel by Accenture (which were really good), we went to Sun Microsystems. Although the conference was not as good as we hoped, the demos of the technologies they are developing were outstanding. From the Sun mobile desktop technology to Java real-time… definitely awesome! An example of a company that does great value creation but lacks to capture it.
On Wednesday, we went to Google… possibly the most expected visit And yes, it is a one-of-a-kind company. Actually, it doesn’t look like a company, but more like a college. To Start, they have colorful lava lamps on every building reception… plus obviously colorful sofas. And everything looks friendly, full of employee’s art in every wall, free food everywhere, resting areas, cafeterias, pool tables, games, massage chairs, gym, laundry, swimming pools, beach volleyball, etc. The environment is so relaxed that is even weird… people can take their dogs to work or take a nap if they feel tired. Definitely a good place to work, but obviously all those commodities are focused in enabling you to stay at the ‘office’ 24×7.
After Google, we went to Hewlett-Packard. Very nice installations, but the complete opposite from Google. While in Google all the food is for free, at HP they have coin machines for aspirin! But generally the conference was very good and they also gave us a demo of their newest products… with HP Halo the most impressive (although I liked more the Cisco ).
The visits on Thursday were Electronic Arts and IDEO. EA was good, we had a tour around the buildings and we visited the team in charge of The Sims 3. We saw everything, even the sound recording studio… which was really nice. It is impressive how they really live the game, with all the offices decorated with the theme. Ahhh and yes of course, they have an Xbox, PS3 and Wii in every building reception
Ahh yes, after everybody complained with Rajesh for asking so many questions when time is so limited, he of course got quite angry. And he got even angrier when I took this picture, but it was worth it Finally, to finish the week we had an innovation workshop at IDEO. It was generally quite good and lots of fun, although I didn’t like some details…
Obviously we also had some fun during the night Although after being in Madrid… it definitely feels like something is missing. On Wednesday we went to Hooters, to eat some ‘typical’ chicken wings served by not-so-hot waitresses. On Thursday we also went out, but no with no excuses Ricardo (the academic director) and Eunice (the executive academic director) joined us. Ahhh and yes, Ricardo had to show an ID to get in… he is still a child, on the inside at least A fun night with a crazy back-riding accident of Rajesh and heart-hopping by Anirudh.
And well, everything has an end sadly… This was a long post, but perhaps if I can I will upload later other pictures or comment on some things I found interesting. We’ll see, depends on my workload 
which lately has been crazy.
See ya!
Belgique!
Well this past week we had a couple of holidays and IE was kind enough to give us a full “puente” of five days!! And thankfully I had the chance to visit a new country: Belgium! Well, actually they were two, Belgium and the Netherlands. I stayed in Wavre with Marc, who was kind enough to stand me for a few days, and traveled around. The first day, we went to Brussels!
Marc with his very nice car at Waterloo
The next visit was Amsterdam! We were very lucky and we went on “Queens’ day!” which meant that the whole city was partying! It was awesome, I really liked it but I guess I will have to go back someday to get to know the real every-day Amsterdam.
And the last stop was Brugges! I loved Brugges, really nice and definitely worth visiting. Nice sights, romantic canals, beautiful architecture and great atmosphere! (although too many tourists)
And as some of you already know… after some digestive problems and a lack of taxis, I almost missed my flight! I am really thankful for those people that do the small details that mean so much.
For those of you brave enough, you can find all the pictures I took during the trip in the gallery… I hope you enjoy!
Toledo!
It has been a while since I wanted to go to Toledo, but I had been waiting for a weekend without too much work and good weather. Finally, that was last weekend! So generally I liked Toledo a lot! We had lots of fun, the weather was great, oh and yes of course, we had to walk and walk and walk and…
Yan & Divya with Sancho Panza!
Portugal!!
So after two weeks of hard work with lots of exams and final projects, I got a chance to travel to Portugal during the Easter holidays!
Traveling by car with Alex and Miguel, we toured around Sintra, Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto and finally an express visit to Salamanca.
In the car aided by GPS (not to get lost ) and with Miguel as co-pilot.
Entering Lisbon, on the “25 de Abril” bridge. Very nice views…
City of Sintra
Palace da Pena
Street of Sintra
Click below to see the rest of the pictures…
MMTDB’07 Class
For those of you that were wondering what do my teachers regularly see… here is a picture for you. The only difference, is that usually during class most of us are sleeping. And yes, we have fixed seats so we have been heating the same chair for a long time now Special thanks to Greg for taking the picture!
Año nuevo chino y parque el Retiro
Bueno, pues para no perder la costumbre… aquí les comparto un par de fotos. Las primeras, de la fiesta para celebrar el año nuevo chino… sí, el año del cerdo! Las últimas, son algunas fotos tomadas en el parque el Retiro…
Imad, alvaro, pablo, virginia, yan, alex, divya y yo.
Palacio de Cristal, parque el Retiro
Puerta de Alcalá¡
Snow!
Bueno, pues estas fotos son de hace un par de semanas pero se me habÃa pasado subirlas… Un dÃa que Alex nos hizo el gran favor de llevarnos al puerto de Navacerrada a jugar con la nieve. Muy divertido! y tenÃa muuucho tiempo que no jugaba con nieve asÃ
Cómo se quieren verdad?
¡Cuidado! Es el abominable monstruo de las nieves!!
Mas Tenerife!!
Bueno, he aquà unas cuantas fotos más de Tenerife… espero que os gusten Excepto por las dos primeras, las demás son de buena resolución con créditos a mi hermano.
Esta es en la Candelaria, pequeño pero pintoresco pueblo… Vista del centro de la ciudad, que a un lado esta la ‘catedral y al otro la playa… nada mal!
Abajo… una fotografÃa de la carretera que va por el norte de la isla, un dÃa que decidimos darle la vuelta completa. Muy buenas vistas, pero una carretera horrorosa de doble sentido en un carril, con el acantilado a un lado :S Aún asÃ, increÃble experiencia!
El Teide visto desde el mirador del Pico del Inglés… con un lindo atardecer. Abajo, junto al coche que rentamos camino al Teide.
Ramón y Laura con el Teide de fondo… me encanta esta foto. Abajo, el conductor designado (osease yo) y mi padre rumbo al Teide.
SÃ, soy yo…
Abajo, son los valles por donde pasaron los rÃos de lava… en verdad son impresionantes, parecerÃa superficie en marte o algo asÃ!
Tenerife!
Bueno, pues con las vacaciones aunque tuve más tiempo libre no habÃa podido actualizar el blog debido a que no tenia Internet… pero bueno, más vale tarde que nunca! Pues como muchos ya sabrán, pase las fiestas navideñas en Sta. Cruz de Tenerife… para variar! jeje He aquà algunas fotos… que por cierto, creo que saque más fotos con el celular que con mi propia cámara, que creo indica un poco cual es la tendencia no? Y de calidad creo que no están nada mal (aunque claro no esperen fotografÃa profesional).
Un lindo atardecer, en el Sauzal, cerca de Tacoronte. Abajo no se ve, pero a la izquierda del sol esta el Teide.
El parque GarcÃa Sanabria, en Sta. Cruz. Y abajo, el puerto marÃtimo de Sta. Cruz…
Finalmente, el Auditorio de Tenerife… mas o menos famoso por su arquitecto: Santiago Calatrava
Segovia!
Bueno, hace tiempo que no actualizaba el blog debido a falta de tiempo, pero con las vacaciones ahora si no tengo pretexto. Y lo obligado son las fotos del viaje que hice durante el super puente a Segovia! Me encanto la ciudad, definitivamente un “must“! Bueno, espero les gusten las fotos, saludos a todos!
El acueducto… en verdad es impresionante. Definitivamente más bonito que el de Querétaro :p
El Alcázar de Segovia, y sÃ, ese soy yo.
Con Yan… el viaje lo hice con ella y Divya.
La catedral… impresionante.
25!!
Bueno, pues ya tenÃa rato que no subÃa fotos ni escribÃa ni nada… sorry about that! pero es que afortunadamente he estado muy ocupado y no he tenido mucho tiempo libre. Y aún sigo muy ocupado jeje, pero bueno ya era hora que subiera fotos nuevas.
Y pues sÃ, ya va a ser casi un mes jeje, pero fue mi cumpleaños! y con un cuarto de siglo cumplido… habÃa que festejar! En general me la pase muy bien, además de que la escuela me hizo el favor de organizar una fiesta de ‘integración’ con los masters de marketing y finanzas en el “cielo de pachá”, la sección vip de una discoteca pija de Madrid… y lo mejor de todo: gratis y con barra libre toda la noche! ujú! jaja
Pues primero fuimos a cenar a un pequeño restaurante italiano, pero buenÃsimo! Aquà hay algunas fotos de la cena… Fuimos casi todos los del master (hay alguien que nunca va a ninguna reunión…) y dos profesores… Martin (Alemania) profesor de Marketing, y Garen (LÃbano) profesor de contabilidad financiera.
SÃ, soy yo…
Gustavo y Rajesh
Las siguientes fotos ya son de la fiesta en el antro… como las manecillas del reloj: yo, Imad, Divya, Alex, Alvaro y Yan.
Fotos
Hola todos,
ya se que tiene un rato que no escribia, pero tengo una buena excusa: he estado estudiando! SÃ, aunque no lo crean pero he estado estudiando bastante. Siempre tengo un montón de cosas que leer para cada clase, y obvio ya empiezan a haber trabajos que entregar y demás. Pero bueno, a cambio ahora tienen muchas fotos por ver, que espero les gusten.
Bueno, hay varias fotos del parque El Retiro… esta en particular me gusta: “El ángel caÃdo”
Otra vista del parque…
Junto a la entrada de un pequeño museo que esta en medio del parque…
Una fuente en el parque…
Bueno, esto ya no es en el parque jeje… es junto a la plaza mayor.
Cuando han visto toda una orquesta en las calles de México? Yo jamás… solo en Europa.
En la Cibeles…
Bueno, y dentro de las novedades… fue la visita de Cristina! directo desde Girona estuvo aquà durante la semana. Y para celebrar su visita, pues que mejor que un buen tequila? El resto, mis flatmates: de izquierda a derecha, Diego (el español), yo (duh!), Cristina, Alain, Henri (los dos belgas). Alejandro nos hizo el gran favor de ponerse detrás de la cámara.
Con Cristina en el parque del buen retiro…
Para variar, en el parque del Retiro… Linda foto no? créditos a Cristina
Una vista tÃpica madrileña…
Y bueno, en otras noticias… no ha pasado mucho: algunas fiestas, mucho trabajo, mucha lluvia y frio, y que me enferme de calentura por un resfriado. Ya estoy mejor pero todavÃa no bien…
Saludos,
Diwali
Ok, para los que no sepan (como yo antes no sabÃa) Diwali es una fiesta religiosa hindú muy importante, y significa la Celebración de la Luz. Hay toda una historia compleja detrás de la celebración que me contaron y que obviamente no me acuerdo, pero el chiste es que es una fiesta muy grande y se supone que en la india ponen velas en todas partes y no apagan las luces en toda la noche.
Bueno, pues Divya, la compañera hindú del master organizo la fiesta de Diwali en su depa. Estas fotos son de la semana pasada, del sábado… pero bueno, más vale tarde que nunca.
Casi puros del master… de izquierda a derecha, Paulina, Divya, Imad, Alvaro, Alejandro, Gustavo y yo. Paulina es también mexicana, pero ella esta estudiando una maestrÃa en otra universidad. Mi equipo de trabajo es Divya (India), Alejandro (España) y Gustavo (Ecuador). Alvaro es el otro mexicano en el master… también del Tec CCM.
La India invade España! Los cinco estudian en el IE, pero Divya, Anirudh y Rajesh (izq a der) son los 3 hindús de mi master. Los tres muy buena onda.
Yan (China), Divya y Amparo (España) son las 3 mujeres del master.
Empiezan clases, y con las clases las tareas…
Bueno pues esta fue mi primer semana de clases. El programa en realidad empezo oficialmente el martes, tuvimos la apertura, dio unas palabras el rector del instituto, nos dieron cafe y galletitas y finalmente nos dieron unas pequeñas conferencias personas de Accenture, Nokia, Cisco, etc. En realidad el master esta muy ligado con varias empresas, y vamos a tener muchos proyectos en dichas empresas, asà como la estancia de california. Asà que bueno, en general el master se ve muy prometedor y suena muy emocionante…
Y después de las conferencias y demás, nos dieron un lindo maletin lleno de papeles! Pesaba como 15 kg sin exagerar, y son todas las lecturas y casos para el primer periodo :S Asà que como se imaginaran, tengo un buen que leer. Para todas las clases tengo un caso que preparar o algun texto que leer.
El mismo martes tuve mi primer clase… y en el maletin venÃa el sylabus para todas las materias, incluyendo lo que habÃa que leer para la primer sesión de cada clase!
Y bueno, pues en general todos los maestros que he tenido hasta ahora muy bien. La mayorÃa son extranjeros, dos alemanes, una argentina, etc… y pues cada uno a su modo obviamente pero creo que bien. Ya después que estemos bajo mayor presión y empiezen los problemas ya les platicare si sigo opinando lo mismo jaja.
Bueno, y pues toda la semana me la he pasado entre estudiando, arreglando cosas, haciendo el super, etc. Pero ayer me fui a pasear un poco por la ciudad… asà que les pongo algunas fotos.
Esta foto es en el parque del retiro… el chapultepec de madrid
El templo de Debod. Este es un templo egipcio, que Egipto regalo a españa en los 60′s creo por el apoyo que dio españa para la investigación y bla bla en egipto.
La pregunta es… y cómo lo trajeron? me imagino que lo desarmaron y se lo trajeron como rompecabezas jeje. Afortunadamente, lo pudieron volver a armar
La catedral de la Almudena. Esta justo enfrente al palacio real, y Almudena es la patrona de Madrid. Que aunque aquà la gente no es muy religiosa, es un buen pretexto para festejar.
Bueno, y finalmente, algo que me parecio curioso… caminando me encontre con una manifestación para liberar a 5 cubanos supuestamente encarcelados en US. Hasta eso si era mas o menos bastante gente, pero lo que más me impresiona es que si hicieras una encuesta, estoy seguro que ni uno de los que estaban en la manifestación son cubanos! Además, como que se agregaron grupos como “Jovenes Comunistas de España” o algo asà y demás…
Cataluña por Cuba… entre otras. Obvio habÃan consignas en contra de Bush, pero lo que me impresiono es que trajeran banderas con el sÃmbolo de la unión soviética y que apoyaran a Chavez (osease, que tiene que ver con 5 cubanos que los conocen en su casa?).
Hasta la victoria siempre!
Aunque eso implique una dictadura de 40+ años.
En serio, los españoles no tienen de que quejarse… Ya quisiera ver a alguno de todos estos vivir en Cuba a ver si seguirian diciendo lo mismo.
Bueno, y finalmente… en otros temas hoy juega el Real Madrid contra el Barcelona, asà que como se imaginaran aquà todos se vuelven locos y es todo un evento. Esperemos que gane el real madrid para poder salir a festejar a la calle Y además, antes es el campeonato de la F1, y es muy probable que pierda Schumacher y que gane el español Fernando Alonso… asà que otro motivo para salir a la calle jeje. Asà que bueno, me pondre a estudiar para terminar antes de que empieze todo eso…
Primer dÃa de clases
Bueno, pues hoy fue mi primer dÃa de clases, y en general estuvo muy bien! Aunque en realidad, aún no he tenido clases. Hoy fue el dÃa de introducción y tuvimos un “intercultural workshop”. Pues sÃ, nos juntaron con el master de finanzas y nos dieron diversas presentaciones sobre las culturas, los estereotipos, el shock-cultural, etc., y realizamos actividades bastante interesantes… como jugar cartas! En total fuimos 30… 15 de cada master aproximadamente, y pues hay de todo: españoles, brasileños, alemanes, hindús, franceses, libaneses, griegos, chinos, rumanÃs, ecuatorianos, argentinos, etc… ah sÃ! y somos dos mexicanos, en el mismo master.
Pues sÃ, el otro mexicano es del tec, también del sur, y no lo conocÃa pero si lo reconozco de haberlo visto en los pasillos. Estudio sistemas computacionales y tiene 26 años… se graduo un poco antes que yo, y en general buena onda.
Y pues ya, eso fue toda la mañana, y en la tarde tuvimos una presentación de PromoMadrid, que en realidad solo es publicidad para atraer inversionistas y capital a Madrid, medio aburrido pero bien… y algunas juntas de los grupos de alumnos… Hay grupos de todo, desde deportivos, académicos y hasta grupo de México.
Y pues bueno, eso fue todo por el dÃa de hoy, conociendo mucha gente y recibiendo demasiada información! Mi mente ya esta saturada, y tengo que estudiar y asimilar todavÃa mas información, porque mañana ya tengo una clase y la tengo que preparar :S
Y mañana es la inauguración oficial del master, nos van a sacar la foto de la generación y bueno, va a ser un largo dÃa pero ese ya se los platico después.
Bueno, espero no haberlos aburrido demasiado, pero en recompensa les pongo una foto de la escuela. No es muy buena porque la saque con el celular… pero prometo pronto sacar mas fotos de verdad.
¡Saludos!