I´m back

It’s September Wednesday 17th few minutes before midnight. My departure from here is planned for tomorrow morning and everything was supposed to be packed and ready, just to leave back to Czech Republic.

However, I’m sitting on my bed and crying. So far I’m still in Holland and haven’t packed single thing. I’m reminding all the moments that has happened to me within thirteen months and it makes me cry even more. Realizing that I’m leaving for good is quite depressing after all. Am I ready to go? I look through my room – shoes still there, clothes in closet and my desk is a mess as I wouldn’t need to leave the next morning. Meanwhile my thinking there is a bell on church clock close to my place reminding me of midnight and last moments that are running out. My thoughts are about all of the great people I have met, all the opportunities and experiences I got chance to incredibly enrich my stay here and my life in general. After all I know that I’m NOT ready to pack this wonderful year and go. I’m not ready to leave this country of tulips…

Shock
Come back to Czech Republic was quite a shock. I could apply this shock to almost everything including culture, language or personal life. Yes, I have to admit that I missed the incredible beautiful nature of Czech and also the view of Prague in night lightning from Letenské sady, my family and of course my friends. However, despite of all this I realized that nothing has been changed here. It seems like I would get on the moving train, but came back after round way to the totally same place. One year was enough to feel like Holland is my basement. I cannot say that it would be the only one, but I haven’t lived anywhere else for so long so far. Different environment was waiting for me also at my university. All the subjects and lectures in my maternal language made me a little problem to get into it again. I would say that people around me must have been in shock from me as well. I came as changed person in the way that nobody expected. More experienced, with specific point of view, that many people do not accept here in our culture. Development I made within a working, personal or language area made me stronger and wiser than anybody else.  

CERN
What is the Universe made of? How everything started there? How we collect and analyze all the data we get? All these answers and many more information I had chance to get during planned excursion to a European Organization for Nuclear Research. The name CERN is origin from the French title – Conseil Europeén pour la Recherche Nucléaire. This project has started already in the year 1954 and people all over the world would have done anything to see and visit it. CERN as a European Research organization is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. Not everyone has an opportunity to go to see the ATLAS generator “face to face”. Many people has visited Geneva, where is placed this nuclear research, which is really developed and wonderful city. However, this “attraction” is still big secret for many people. Unicorn College has already some interaction with CERN from previous times, so organize trip like this, even for bigger group wasn’t problem. In this specific group where participated students from Unicorn College, but also many managers from Unicorn Systems. Vladimír Kovář, owner of both organizations I just mentioned, came with us. The opportunity to get into 80 meters out of 100 under the surface to see one of four generators in this project was incredible. After visiting ATLAS we also get a lecture at IT division as Unicorn is specialized mainly in this area. We got an idea how to collect and analyze all the data they processed within the activity of different generators. Even though this trip was for one day and the other two was spent in the bus the whole day, it was totally worth it.

In conclusion I would say, that even when I am back in Czech Republic I’m open to new things, plans or opportunities I will get. However, I hope to move abroad again as soon as possible. It might be for a longer period of time then only one year is.






















 

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