Europe (II)

I have been in this small town of Austria for three days. To be sure, small European town looks exactly like the one we see on the post card. Beautiful but fake. Right outside my balcony I can see mountains. Because of the high altitude, sometimes I see clouds flying by like the mountain is smoking cigarette.

Busy. I barely have time to do the readings and write the blogs. Right now I am delaying my dinner to write this entry. If I go to dinner right now, I will stick around until later tonight. Too many interesting people to have conversation with. However, I have set up a very good schedule for the past three days. Getting up at 6pm, go to the gym for half an hour and then swim for 20 minutes. Come back and have breakfast until 8am, that's when classes start. I will try to keep that up, even on weekends.

I think I really have made a good choice in taking this new job. I like most of the people around me. It seems that I would be expected to contribute more in my work than in my previous work. To be honest, I am a lazy person, but if the expectation is high, I tend to perform better. After three days here, I have a good sense of the people around me, and I feel that I can be at least above average in the new environment.

Maybe it is just me, but it only took me one or two days to sort through all the people in this training programs. Some are good talkers, some are deep thinkers, some are solid, some are showy, some are strong-willed, some go with flows. It is amazing how my judgmental abilities work through the crowd. For me, I am never a person who leaves a strong first impression, but I am damn sure that everything is going uphills ever since.

This weekend I might go to Salzberg. It is important to pay Mozart some respect to see his birth place. It was quite incredible to think that such a genies has lived on the land that we normal people can share. I hope that is not too much insult to Mozart.