Mircea Paşoi*

It has been 2 weeks since we arrived in Vancouver and I must say, these have been some really intense couple of weeks - in a good way!

This comes after the very nerve-wrecking period before departing to Canada when there was so much stuff to do:

• Pass 4 exams in my Masters Degree in Distributed Systems at University of Bucharest
• Get a Canada visa, plane ticket, medical insurance, etc.
• Find a new team for balaur.ro and handover the project (soon to be announced)
• Give the current team at infoarena.ro all the necessary rights to operate without the founding team
• Move all my stuff from the apartment in Bucharest I was renting
• Spend time with family, my girlfriend and my friends
• Do some promotional stuff for ReadFu (TV show, web show, press)
• Work on ReadFu and balaur.ro

Not a short list for only a few weeks, but I somehow squeezed everything in, or at least I tried. :) Luckily that period has passed and I am now living in the beautiful town of Vancouver and working on turning ReadFu into a very succesful web business.

The first two weeks have been an interesting mix of really cool events: meeting with all the other teams, doing a pitching workshop, meeting with Guy Kawasaki, learning about term sheets and incorporating a company, meeting quite a few Romanians, etc., mixed with a lot of practical stuff: recovering from jetlag, finding a house to live in, buying a bed from Ikea, learning how to use the public transit, finding out the good places to eat, etc.

This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what happened, more details will soon follow on the ReadFu blog. Regarding what’s next, it looks like it’s going to be a really challenging (and fun) journey, and that I’ll learn tons of stuff along the way (and do a lot of mistakes also). It will take total immersion for us to come out of this successfully in the end!

It goes without saying that I’m very excited about this chance we’ve been given. For all intents and purposes, this feels pretty much like hitting the reset button and stepping into a whole new life with endless opportunities!

One more thing… As part of this new life, I’m doing a trial of eating only vegetarian (no meat, not even fish) for the entire month of February. Really curious how this will turn out. :)