Oooops.. just saw this didn’t publish yesterday.. sorry !
Just spent a really wonderful day in Slovenia… where you Say ? Slovenia is like OZ.. a place only few come to.. but anyone who does will surly fall in love with the place.. it reminds me of new zealand in that it’s it’s own little world.. with great geographic diversity, .. and all in all awesomeness. Everyone I met here was a) smart, b) nice and c) pretty happy.. can’t ask for better than that.. with a population of just about 2 million its pretty tiny.. but has the highest GDP in eastern Europe..
I was here once 33 years ago and the place has changed remarkably.
I spent teh day meeting with clients, ibm folks, journalists and students..
Here are the folks from ‘Take a bite out of science’ a science promotion tv show for kids and other humans.. they were just so great.. they asked great questions.we tied out the electric pickle experiment with a a red pepper and a hot dog.. fun and smelly
here’s the view of Croatia from the balcony..
after the IBM forum.. we headed back to Ljubljana to the university.. I got a good view of the coastline by day..
There’s was a nice crowd at the technical university tonight. It was an IEEE meeting.
i enjoyed given my talk there.. what a great group of folks. Three of them I’d met in belgium 2 years ago now that’s a small world. Here I am with Andrej’s son Jore who goes to school here.
afterwards a couple of us went out for dinner and Jore took me for a quick tour around Ljubljana at night.. what a gem !
ok.. time for just 4 hours sleep…
miss my homies.. love to all
nite all, nite sam
-me
I hope you find this as interesting as I did: this was the introductory paragraph of my admissions essay that got me accepted to many universities, including WPI.
“Slovenia: the Oz of the Real World
Many are not aware of the true utopia on earth. It goes by the name of Slovenia; a quaint country snuggled between Italy, Austria, and Croatia with a coast bordering the Gulf of Venice. Jokingly, those who have traveled its mountainous terrain state that it is impossible to dislike a country with the word “love” in its name. Perhaps it is not the mystical scenery, rather the incredible people who live there that draw in visitors. Every Slovene I’ve met has a great sense of humor and will say that the water in the area is always a refreshing temperature between zero and one hundred degrees Celsius. ”
I found it funny how similar our opinions are of the wonderful country!