To appreciate small things

Spending your afternoon with a company of those that are the closest people for you might be something usual and obvious. However, don't even try to imagine, how your life would be like without your love ones.

Together with Mario, we appreciated our nice afternoon, which we spent in the Christmas Market in Manchester city centre. I need to admit that it was good idea to that, simply because we could be together within big city and lots of people, but still - together.

By the way, we saw nice German, French, Dutch and British food expositions and we encouraged ourselves to buy some of these specialties (cheese and biscuits for me and fine German salami for Mario). hmmmm yummie!

Small thing, nice evening....simple but it is important to appreciate things like that, isn't it?

Ice-skating at Piccadilly Gardens

Happy but with cold nose

City Hall full of lights

The Market

Mario curious about German beer

Santa made of lights - straight from France

Some nice german sausages

Be Enterprising

Have you ever though seriously about your future? I'm pretty sure you have. I mean, who wouldn't do that especially nowadays, when the competition in the job market is high?!

Well, students of Salford University (means - us), decided to do something already for our future.

As a members of two organisations, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and the Student Entrepreneurs Network (SEN), we will take part in a series of workshops. Why? Because, we want to develop our business knowledge and skills. After all, does every one of us know, for example, how to write a successful business plan?

The Student Enterprise Academy will run for us a series of workshops on a variety of business orientated topics, from how to market your business to how to find funding.
Maybe it could be perceived by someone only as another series of workshops which no one really wants to attend. Even though, we believe, it will be beneficial for us in the future.
After all, it is us, who can make a big difference for our future.

More information about the SEN and SIFE: www.ae.salford.ac.uk/student

This text is based on my article which was printed in 'Student Direct', Salford Students' Newspaper (2007, issue 8).

* to be not so serious, I also bear in mind that quote:

My son is now an 'entrepreneur'. That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Ted Turner, broadcasting entrepreneur