Am'dam

Originally posted at http://bORIS.nomadlife.org/

Last week I went to Amsterdam again. I attended ABN AMRO training course about Turn of the cycle and Early Warning Signals [Risk related mainly for people involved in Credit Portfolio Management and Risk Management within the bank] and it wouldn’t be enough to say that I’m satisfied with it because I’m more than that. The course came in the right time for me, on the start of my career in this field and the knowledge I’ve gained there is really useful. Furthermore I was the most inexperienced one [logically] and it was a great opportunity for me to meet and get to know better people doing more less the same job in different countries [the Netherlands, Italy, Kazakhstan, Poland, Germany, France, etc.]. It’s my pleasure to note that all of them are quite nice and interesting people! By the way, the course lasted two days and it was held in Duin and Kruidberg – amazing place [take a look at the picture].

After the course, on Friday afternoon, a colleague of mine from the Netherlands gave me a ride to the ABN AMRO headquarters where I met Zoka and bunch of other people already familiar from AIESEC, at the moment working or having their traineeships in ABN AMRO Amsterdam, and I was quite surprised because I had no idea that some of them were there. It felt really good to see them again. After the walking tour through the buildings we had couple of drinks in the bank [as I understood every Friday afternoon there is a drink in a garden of the bank] and it was good. Later in the evening we went out to some karaoke party and afterwards to café tour through the city. You should have seen Zoka performing on the stage – she was really cute! Nevertheless it wasn’t just Zoka, because when one of the ABN AMRO trainees is singing, all the others immediately join and make the crowd goes crazy and singing with them :)

Of course I stayed over Zoka’s place. She has been living in a really nice house with beautiful view from the living room and in the safe neighbourhood. There is a lake nearby as well as plenty of parks with nice bicycle and jogging paths. Saturday was sunny and it was a perfect day for Amsterdam by bicycle tour, arranged by ourselves. We were cycling the whole day through the city, having coffee breaks and enjoying live conversation with each other after more than two months. It was great! I didn’t want to, but I had to go back to Brussels in the evening…

Serbian community in Benelux countries is definitely growing :)

Ziveli. Bravo!