Live to Travel

✨ The PREMIUM Team “Live to Travel” would like to express a special thanks of gratitude to The PREMIUM Central Management Team, who made the PREMIUM Project possible for us.

✨ Secondly, we would like to thank our Client, Thomas Dobbe, Senior Operations Associate at FareHarbor, for being actively involved in the process and helping the Team to reach the desired goals. Subsequently, we thank the FareHarbor team for the willingness to cooperate with us and share the necessary information.

✨ Thirdly, we are particularly grateful for the assistance given by our Mentor, Maureen Steijvers, with whose close supervision the Team made sure to be on the right track.  

✨ Moreover, the assistance provided by our Coaches, Adina Petre and Yvette Froeling, was greatly welcomed and appreciated. The advice given by PREMIUM Workshops has been a great help in working on the project.

✨ Lastly, the Team wants to offer special thanks to their fellow Team Members, Lorenzo Palladini, Anna Ivanova, Bansi Popat, Maria Diederich, for dedicating time and effort to complete the project. It was a pure pleasure to work as a Team and see the progress others made on the way to achieve both personal and Team goals. 

Okay, now when we attracted you attention - this post is about food 🍗. *long-but-fun-read* We want to conclude our PREMIUM Experience by sharing what we did outside PREMIUM  - mostly (thesis writing) enjoying our lives :D

Our teammates decided to share what they like: mostly cooking but also some fun time-spending activities.   Do you remember our chef - Bansi (sounds almost like Ramzi, right) 😉😉and her passion for food? Well, check THIS out! 1. Indian breakfast -  Poha. 

Do you start your day with a healthy breakfast? Nah, you should first drink a class of 💧 :D But yes, breakfast is essential.

Comments from our chef: “It is made of processed flattened rice, roasted with chilies, onions, mustard and cumin seeds, curry leaves and Indian spices”.

Sounds about right for the start of the day? Get your caloriezzzz! 💪

2. KFC Basket  Gobi Manchurian (cauliflower)! 

Chinese cooking + seasoning techniques  = perfect for Indian tastes!

3. Lemon rice & Mint rice (look like a human brain, huh? 🧠)

Bansi says it’s simple: “White rice flavoured with lemon, mint, peanuts and lentils”.

4. Panner butter masala and Roti (yuuuum!)

“Cottage cheese cooked with the spiced up onion, tomato, garlic,ginger and Indian spices and roti (indian bread) to go with it”, Bansi is for sure professional!

If you need recipes, contact Bansi ❤

Our next chef - Maria! It means more fancy stuff to come! 

1. Beef burger

Looks delicious!! Maria comments: “”This is a beet burger, which was my only patty option after eating burgers three days in a row because the bun package size is not one-person-dinner-confinement friendly”. Can’t agree more, but this is perfect chance for experiments, yeah!

2.  Tofu Pad Thai prep

Comments from the chef: I learnt you can replace the tamarind paste in your sauce for ketchup :D It was delicious, but I have still bought tamarind by now”. Well, if it works, it works! Glad you enjoyed it, Maria!

3. Pesto’s YEAR'S   supply

A little story behind the photo:

”So I discovered a beautiful forest while running to the south end of the city, and it turns out the plants growing on the entire floor are ramsons, which is a type of wild garlic. So I carefully harvested some (not taking too much from one spot so it regrows) and spent a long time cleaning it with a dynamically rotating multi-step/pot process. -> I have 2 jars of amazing pesto in the fridge now (which basically could be a year's supply)”. 

4.  Peanut Masala Chaat

Maria: “Recreated my favorite room service snack from times spent on a hotel room after work in India: Peanut Masala Chaat. Steamed raw peanuts, chaat masala (crazy tasting stuff with acidic green mango powder, and lots of other spices), tomatoes, onion and most importantly: coriander :)”.

This looks awesome! 

5. Everyday breakfast

5: Prettiness is in simplicity: “A bowl of porridge and fruits with lots of topping options of seeds, nuts etc. *content varies”,  - can’t agree more with Maria!

Uhhh, that’s it for fancy cooking 😜

Anna wanted to share two typical Russian salads “Russian Winter Salad” aka “Olivye” (white) and “Dressed Herring”, (purple)  which is also known as “Herring under fur coat”. 

Wanna know where the coat is? Write Anna!

Okay, almost done!! 😉

Do you know Italian Mafia? 🔫You better do, because this is a part of their routine! 

Of course Lorenzo doesn’t have anything common with the mafia (or we don’t know something?!!!), but he is glad to received gifts like these ones straight from Cuba! 🚬 This is how SBe students relax, huh! *smoking is bad for your health and and we don’t promote it*

You have probably got tired by our constant 👑’ations, but what else to do when we are worth it? 😉 (Yes, a line from Maybelline ads💄).

Being honest, this is our last one ☺

Please meet Bansi  - our working bee aka night own aka food lover aka a great team-member! 

With her openness to new ideas, devotion to the project, the ability to get to the bottom of the matter and a positive attitude that she radiates - the team was able to reach the highest hights 💚💚💚☀ P.S: ❤ and let's not forget her all time readiness to crush upcoming work and grind away all night if necessary! 💪 Plus, all done with a smile at an early meeting the next day or happily chatting away while working at 2 am ;)

Naturally, we cannot conclude the blog without crowning our Anna I, Queen of Content!

She is the creative brain 🧠 behind the majority of our tumblr posts, especially after the team explicitly begged her to be our content lead 🙏, because it comes so natural to her, in comparison to us others. (You can probably tell by now…)

Upon stalking Anna’s Facebook Page for a perfectly „crownable“ picture, we discovered the above jewel 💎 of a picture that is more badass than any photoshop outcome we could ever produce! That’s just how she rolls! 🦅*CRAAAWWW*🦅

Her plans for her weekly posts were often shared in advance at one of our two weekly team meetings and then enjoyed at the next stop-over on the blog. Sometimes though, she also surprised us with an unexpected post with a nice reflection and/or humorous revelation on our team (members) and processes.✍️

Thank you, Anna 🧡

P.S.:

Currently typing this - and still can’t completely believe - less than a week until the Closing Ceremony. Time has gone SO FAST and these 5 months flew like 5 days. A lot of research is  behind our backs and we can proudly say now: yes, we are gathering our ideas and findings into a solid report.  Take a look at our highlighter color palette. Do you see how rather pessimistic it seems? Nah, we are fine, and as the proverb says: alive and kicking. 

We chose dull colors for highlighting because we are already bright ourselves 😜 It’s all about balancing, right?

Nope.

This is the amount of Excel cells in the sheet that the team had to fill in manually. Yes, typing figure by figure. 

It sounded like this:

Later on, we added another 23 sheets, but it didn’t feel as much as in the beginning. So in the end, it was about 10k cells filled in 🤪

Today we crown our Maria. 

Her exceptional organizational and managerial skills lead the team in the right direction from the very beginning. You brought so much structure in our work and made sure we keep up with all the deadlines. Of course, nothing is possible without a great team, right? (😉😉), but we are very very much thankful for the careful guidance of yours :) 

As a Team we decided to crown Lorenzo - now he is the Research King!

He found a lot of data on what we needed and helped the research process a lot!🏆

No, not physically. Virtually. 

This week we were meeting in Zoom daily - to prepare the feedback presentation for our client. The goal was to show what we already have, get the feedback and establish the project focus for the last month. 

As mentioned before, the goal of the project is to find Growth Opportunities for Fare Harbor: How can Fare Harbor expand its business and therefore increase its revenues in the European Market?

After analyzing data we came up with the list of countries where the company can expand the presence:

Then we explored the market in the selected countries and focused on the activities, which could potentially be interested for Fare Harbor. For example, 

Later we proved why we believe the countries we selected are worth taking a closer look, for example:

The client was happy with what we did so far - and of course there is always a way to dig deeper into the data :) 

We as a Team decided to participate in the trendiest quarantine activity: fill in the Remote Work Bingo! And this is what we got:  

While our bi-weekly calls went as planned and we were making progress, something was wrong. 

While trying to do the most for the project, we didn’t pay enough attention to fun stuff. Of course, we talked about our lives and (especially) upcoming thesis papers, but there was no - completely-out-of-ptoject- experience. 

This is when we found online quizzes... 

What do you do in the morning? We do Zoom calls. 

We are on the right track (hopefully!)

The team prepared for the Reflection Meeting with the Mentor, and here is what we came to.....

Photo credits: Unsplash

The team of busy bees 🐝starts their morning productively: