Hiking snowy fields Czech style

Some weeks ago Lukas (the MCVP XD of AIESEC Czech Republic) mailed me to ask me if I can go and be the chair of the OPS.

I had a very slight idea what I am putting myself in, since it was right between coming back from Poland and the Finance Summit and the start of the ER Summit. Still I decided to go since I enjoy chairing a lot and AIESEC CzR is a role model country for me and also OPS is so much a different conference compared to any other conference in AIESEC.

So here I was just after half a day of catching up with Geri in Budapest - finishing a bottle of wine in 1 hour and gossiping, the next afternoon I was already on my favourite Student Agency yellow bus on my way to Prague. Yes, I was smart enough also to arrange two more meetings with companies, so I have even more reasons for coming here :).

Meetings were great - both quite interesting and also very inspiring :).

Still this post is about the OPS itself.
On Thursday morning we were supposed to leave for the site at 7 in the morning and so we did. We had a very carefully planned schedules so that we are on site around 11. Well, we almost managed.

The second time we were supposed to change from train to bus we missed our stop, so we thought that going to Prerov is not very smart, we got off the next stop with the idea to catch the next train that is going back to our stop. The next train was in 1 hour and since it was quite cold instead of waiting there we thought that we can walk back to the previous station - according to plan it shouldn't be more than 1 hour - it was just 5 minutes by the train!
And so our journey began:

As you can see it was not such a bad idea at the beginning, after some 15 minutes it got a bit harder, but we thought that there is no sense already going back.

After some 30 minutes we realized that it was not a smart idea at all, but we couldn't go back... so, here we were with all our stuff and me with a trolley bag! If you were traveling like me for 2 months with a backpack you could possibly understand my desire to finally have just a small bag and nothing on my back.

Nobody told me we will be going through a snowy field for almost 1,5 hours. :). We somehow managed to our station and being happy and extremely tired we found our bus stop just to realize that next bus is in 1,5 hours - no way we could wait with our feet cold. So we decided to hike! Yes, I was hiking for the first time in my life and it was quite successful. :)
So far so good - we got to the town where we had to take another bus, that was in 2 hours... So it was time for lunch and taking off our wet shoes!

A shot of Becherovka and some tea as well as a very nice lunch made everyone's life much beautiful and we even celebrated the successful team building with tochena Kofola :).

And after some more traveling we finally got to Cenkovice to discover amazing mountains covered by snow! I haven't seen so much snow for the past two years! It was so amazingly beautiful and so extremely cold!

Some more pictures from the site: