Personal Insights
Blog it Forward – Elena Lucarelli
Thanks Nabheet Madan for nominating me! I am fairly new to the community and I am loving reading all the blogs. This is a great initiative!
Introduction
I am a Roman living in Germany. I moved to here to do my master degree and I haven’t left since. It has been a little over 10 years.
Professionally I am a born and raised at SAP. My career started in 2011 as a working student. When the openSAP team was created in 2013 I was hired permanently. I do mostly project management, but I am also part of the operations and infrastructure team.
Fun Fact
I hate cheese. After years and years of training I managed to get accustomed to mozzarella, but I can only eat it on pizza, preferably if it is warm… My family tried for years to put cheese in food thinking that I wouldn’t notice… but I always did… Worse attempt was made by my cousins: When we were little, they put Parmesan in vanilla ice-cream. Yuck!
What do you do apart from SAP in your free time
Outside SAP, you’d be likely to see me with sneakers, big earphones and my camera. I love to explore places and take pictures. It gives me peace of mind. I am fascinated by lights, reflections and colors. I hate editing the pictures, so I try to do it as little as possible.
When I am not taking pictures, I’d be most probably on the yoga mat or at the gym dancing the day away.
How do you balance your life between work and family/personal time?
What works for me is to carve out one hour a day in which I do something just for myself, and away from the screen. Also, I have a strict never- work-on-vacation policy, which really helps me recharge.
What would you choose if given a choice between coffee or tea and why
Italian coffee and Indian chai masala?? These are absolutely my favorites! Please don’t make me choose!!
I would like to nominate
My questions are:
- What is your favorite holiday destination and why?
- How do you balance your life between work and family/personal time?
- If you were given by your work a full day every week to do whatever you feel like, what would it be?
Elena,
Nice to read more about you, and you are a wonderful photographer. The images are captivating. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Audrey, that's very kind 🙂
Hi Elena, and welcome to the #blogitforward family!
I am either sad for you or jealous that you don't like cheese - because I am a cheese lover, and should probably try to cut down on it! But even I could not stomach Parmesan cheese on vanilla ice cream (or any flavor ice cream, for that matter).
I also wish I had your strict never-work-on-vacation policy! I think the last time that I didn't work on vacation was a year ago, but that was only because I was out of the US and could not bring my laptop with me. Even then, my work had alternate ways of contacting me 🙁
And because you shared some wonderful photos, I'll share one with you...
This is my girl Sunny - who is gloriously happy that she found some mud to play in.
Cheers,
Sue
Hi Sue,
Sunny looks naughty and is very sweet! Thanks for sharing the picture!
You might want to consider wandering in some national park for your next vacation, you know, where there is no internet or phone connection... 😉
Best Regards,
Elena
Hi Elena,
Sunny is mostly sweet - you can't count the mud-loving as naughty because it's just what Labs do, and I can't fault her for what is in her nature.
I will put 'national parks with no phone or internet connection' on my vacation calendar. Thanks for the tip! 😉
Cheers,
Sue
Hi Elena,
Thank you for nominating me, despite the fact that I live in a country that produces 300+ different kind of cheese
I do like very much your photos, and I share this one I took recently 100 meters from where I live in Lyon. The mansion you see is where Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinema in 1895 :
Hi Pierre,
true, you country does make lots of cheese, but it is also home to tartelette au citron meringuée (Lemon meringue pie) and éclair. I like the sweet side of France 🙂
Lyon has been on my travel bucket list for a while now, your picture only makes me want to go there more, thank you for sharing!
Looking forward to reading your #bif!
Elena
Same place this morning, with a blue sky and vibrant sun:
I miss that sun!! It has been so grey here lately!
Even if it was too short, it was really cool meeting you in person in that historical WDF08 building in Walldorf!
Thanks again for promoting SAP Intelligent RPA openSAP courses. You rock Elena!
Wow great post Elena Lucarelli and awesome pictures. I did not know you like Indian Masala Chai! openSAP rocks one of the reason is you, you keep on inspiring people with you tweets etc.:)
Thank you so much for your comment Nabheet!
I adore Indian food! I wish I could cook it myself - or to be in India more often!
Hi Elena, nice post! I am with you on Italian coffee (Espresso) and Indian Chai Masala 🙂