Fun times leftovers and recent news

As I promised last time, I will write about some fun times I had here in the past 4 months. Lets start with Christmas...

Christmas time for me is a time for family, I'm not one of those that gets drunk on Christmas and goes partying. This year was no exception, we trimmed the Christmas tree, decorated the apartment, I cooked my grandmothers risotto calamari, Christmas music was playing all night long, we had our friends come over for dinner and we even went to church for a Midnight Mass.














Yes you see it correctly, we had 2 Christmas trees this year, the little one we bought and the big one was a surprise present from a special someone :* (p.s. don't kill me for this pic, but I liked it so much, I had to put it)

After the Midnight Mass we had some random fun while opening our presents













Next thing on our agenda was New Years Eve. We were planning to go to this awesome, private party and the theme of the evening was Movies. We were talking about the ideas for costumes for weeks, at first we wanted to have a group costume, cause we were a big group actually. Girls really liked the idea of going as a group from a Bollywood movie, but guys didn't like it and since they didn't offer any alternative the whole idea of a group costume was canceled.

So Julia and me were starting to brainstorm about the costumes and at the last minute, as usual, we figured it out. We will be a Mafia couple, husband and wife :)

Mouna decided to go with a Whoopi look and it looked great.



We were ready and we were on our way to Hammamet. We were among the first people that arrived to the party (and of course later on we were almost the last ones to go home) so we occupied one table we put our drinks on ice and the crazy night was ready to start. I had so much fun and for me it seemed like the party lasted only 2 hours (and yes alcohol might have had some influence on me not being able to tell time but that are just details, totally not important). There is not much to tell about this night, only that we were most definitely the craziest bunch of people there, that we had awesome time there and that the party absolutely fulfilled our expectations!











After the new years, it was time to get get ready for Waels' birthday. We decided to throw him a surprise party in our apartment. And it would really be a surprise if I didn't fuck it but, but those are details again so no need to talk about it, and if people that came with cars didn't park them right in front of the building so he saw them before coming... Still, he was surprised by the amount of people and all in all we had a lot of fun. Much bigger surprised was waiting for us when we woke up in the morning and realized how our apartment looks like. One friendly advice, if you ever get the idea to give mousse chocolate to a bunch of kind of drunk people, think again or simply forget that you even have mousse chocolate!!!! As you can predict by now, some people had o lot of fun with the chocolate including our guest of honour, so he decided to clean with us too :*

This were the higlights of the leftovers I promised, and now lets get to the recent updataes.

Most of my freinds here and at home already know, but for those who don't tomorrow is my last day of work in Batouta Voyages. Since the revolution in Tunisia started, tourism sector in Tunisia was quite effected and not in a positive way and so my company was faced with some challenges and some difficult decisions to make. One of those was to cut my intership short and February was my last month working for them. I was determined to find new job, and of course I did.

I start on 1st of March my new internship in the company Integration Objects. So far I heared only good things about them, they already had interns before and they even have one intern working for them at the moment. The office is located in Lac and most of my friends work there too so I will finaly learn to enjoy my 1,5 hour lunch break :) I'm really looking forward to my new internship and you will hear more about it next time.

One other kind of big news is that we don't have the curfew since two weeks I think, and last night we went out to the pub. As usual, a lot of random fun acompanied with good music and couple of drinks ;)













Until the next time, stay good and have fun ;)

Little bit about my work

Since things are getting back to normal here and I've been working in Batouta Voyages for 3 months now, I think it's about time for me to write a little bit about what I do and to introduce you to the people I work with. So, Batouta Voyages is a travel agency (like no one knew that until now :p). It is a medium size company operated from 2 offices in Tunis, I call them big office and small office (aren't I creative, OMG). I work in a small office, which is totally awesome because:

1. It is much closer to my apartment and there are no traffic jams on the way to work, which means i need between 10 - 15 min to get to work and people who know me, know what that means for me cause I loooove to sleep

2. There is only 3 of us in the office and there is only one room in which we work, so it is a very nice homey atmosphere and there is no office gossip, well at least not that I know of, most of times I can't really understand what the two of them are talking about :)

And now, getting to know Batouta Voyages small office staff; Sarra is the executive director of our office but she is more like our Mom and Sana is ticketing and reservation responsible, she is a shy nice girl at the first sight but when you get to know her then you realize she's a crazy little girl with good sense of humor. Our big boss (who we call Shacho) visits us from time to time to make sure we are ok and to give us some inputs and suggestions.

My main responsibility is MICE department (meetings, incentives, conferences, events), other then that I'm working on outgoing travel (mostly honeymoon requests) and marketing (taking care of our awesome new web page, Facebook profile and Twitter profile, so if you still didn't add Batouta Voyages as your friend do it NOW!) :) The added value of my job is getting to know Tunisia and it's culture and history, which is by the way totally awesome!!!

I know, I know all this sounds too good to be true and as any work it's not always purple and perfect. There are days when I don't feel like getting up from the bed and going to work (and it's mostly Saturdays that I feel like that, cause yes I work half time on Saturdays) but mostly it is a very nice place to work at :)

For the end a little bit of marketing for Tunisia, here is an open invitation for all my friends back home to visit me in Tunisia, maybe not in the next month or two, but I'm pretty sure that very soon Tunisia will be back on track. At least you guys should know how hard it is to get back the tourists after situation like this. To start with, my parents are coming on 8th of March for a visit (tickets are already booked) and they will probably be the first Croatians to visit since at the moment I'm the only Croatian here :) crazy family, ha?

Next time I will do my leftovers and write about fun time I had here for Christmas and New Years :)

Bisous