First days in Poland

My first true corporate experience together with a second considerable cultural experience have started and for sure I am in the “honey moon” phase, I like very much the people I meet around here, I enjoyed trying Polish beer & cuisine, visited the city and at work I feel I am learning a lot.

I am doing some things I never did before and that is exciting for now: I attended a 4 hours meeting without break in Polish, I am travelling each morning for 25-30 minutes to office, I am shaving every 1-2 days, I am wearing suit almost every day, getting into the management consulting mindset and discovering how a highly professional and reputed company is working.

The highlist so far have been meeting so many nice Polish people and getting acommodated with the business world. I attended 2 business meeting, one for 4 hours with a Polish client, it was me and 12 Polish people and a sales meeting with potential client. Besides that I got to work on a Commercial Due Diligence project with 2 colleagues, attended induction and knowledge management trainings.

In the first days I lived in a student dorm and on Monday I moved in an apartment where I’ll live with interns from Germany, Tunisia and Nigeria.

It’s already the 5th time when I start all over from the beginning to build friendships and a social group around me, I am getting used to it and is getting easier and easier.