AIESEC International Blog

first members of AI 0910!

2009-03-05T21:12:00.002+01:00

Half of the next AIESEC International Team was selected in the last International Presidents Meeting in Rome 2009.

We are really happy that Aman, Walter and Cindy, part of AI 0809, will continue enjoying this experience to be leading the world's largest student organization!

Also, Malina (Romania/Dominican Republic), Lucas (Colombia), Maria (Russia), Hugo (Portugal), Mehmet (Turkey) will be part of the AIESEC International teams' history! :)

Welcome on board guys!

This is one of their first pictures!

From the left: Malina (VP Finance), Lucas (VP Information Management), Maria (Director for Central and Easter Europe), Cindy (Director for Africa), Hugo (VP Strategy), Mehmet (Director for Middle East and North America), Walter (VP External Relations), Aman (President AIESEC International).

Still looking for other positions to be covered! :)

updates from the other half of the team in Rotterdam

2009-03-05T21:08:00.003+01:00

Last week I spent 4 days in London and met Ondro, Gabiza, Jarda, Coco and Michelle and all of them very excited about what’s happening at IPM. Me, Ewelina and Gabiza were waiting for the results together till late night. It was good that Italy is one hour ahead than London. After the announcement I felt very very sad that I couldn’t be there with you to celebrate and instead of it I had to go sleep to wake up early for the morning flight.

On Friday we had a barbecue in the "House of Action" (name of one of the AI's houses). Walter was the Mr.Cook, he was great and we had a lot of fun. You can see a photo in attachment. On Saturday we met together in House of Action again to wait for the Directors announcement. Thanks Konrad for calling us.:-)

Lucy, Ellen, Marcio, Walter, Aditya, Petra

It’s weird to have MMM (Monday Morning Meeting) only in 7 people so I am really looking forward to have you back. Working now is quite hard and very frustrating. So I really can’t wait till this week is over.

Tomorrow, we plan to be together for the VPs announcement. I am really excited to see how the new team will look like.

Greetings from the office,
Petra

Greetings to the Directors!

2008-12-17T19:22:00.001+01:00

We miss you all, but had fun skating and drinking for you to enjoy the photos! :)

We're having brunch on Friday as well, (with scones!!!!), so we'll send more photos and virtual hugs during our last Happy Hour of 2008.

Hope you're all doing well, wherever you are in the world,

Come back healthy and happy in January please :)

Hugs,

Your buddies in the office!

AI petS!

2008-12-17T19:17:00.002+01:00

At the beginning, we thought it was only one small mouse making disasters in the office. But, when our visitors in the office started to notice the presence of few of them in different parts of the office we started to freak out.

Rotterdam is becoming colder and since the office is a really warm place to be, our little friends have started to multiply themselves.. so we needed to take action on this, we don't want to get back from holidays and don't find the documents we need!!!!

Sorry, but AI will have an AI mascot in other occasion! :P

Our hero,

the tool,

the strategy!

Let's see if it works!!! :)

Pipe is alive!!! Updates from the Iberoamerica region!

2008-12-12T19:37:00.004+01:00

Hey AIESEC!

"From the lands of Exotic Fruits, Spanish, White Beaches, Sun almost all the year and Passion; a lot of Passion; Iberoamerica"

A couple of months ago I've never imagined traveling around IGN countries will be such an amazing race!

Is being almost 3 months where I've had the chance to et to know 11 different countries, cultures, feelings, places, and the most interesting thing, many different ways to deliver AIESEC but with a key common factor; PASSION!

Spain and specially Madrid inspired me a lot, make me remember our roots, from where Latinos came from, its fascinating architecture, the old streets in downtown, all the environment of the starting of Autumn, very charming. After working with the MC Falcons all the week, we had the chance to get some Madrid action at night, Asier my friend & former IGN board, joined us to taste the famous "Chupitos" (small cocktails) and together with the MC colleagues we had an amazing time there. Spain is growing, specially on EP side & LC Development, great Financial Management and TM Processes Implementation.

After my visit in my European country, I got to the land of Tacos, Chili, Rancheras, Tequila and Mayan culture, Mexico!

What a great visit!!! Many things happened here, my 25th birthday, meeting again Ligia & Marco Tulio (current IGN Boards), attend to the biggest conference ever from AIESEC there (330 delegates) and get the chance to know the biggest city in Latin-America. Many funny things happened here in terms of coaching the MC 300, ER setting up basic processes very well, Finance simply outstanding in administration & legal, Projects running SER MAS very good, Exchange performing (even though MCVP X didn't want to meet me for individual meeting, she said it was not a priority for her :D). Is the country with the highest X efficiency en IGN, around 250 members delivering 200 Exchanges. On the social agenda, a bit of Tequila was involved in my birthday, but measured, it was very fun!

Moving on inside Central America, I got to the country with highest Exchanges per LC, host of our main regional conference in 2009, ILC; of course I'm talking about Guatemala!!! The green country!!!

Meeting with the MC guys there was amazing, they are growing a lot on TNs and EPs, having finally 3 official local entities and 1 MC full/part time giving support to deliver @XPs, they are taking care of almost every single process and its reflected on their growth. I took Marco Tulio with me to support the OC from ILC while I was coaching the MC, we have also a lot of fun visiting many places, for example I found out for Spain (thanks to their main airline) Guatemala is the most exotic destiny to visit, so tourism there is being a key topic. On the picture you can see the main square of Guatemala City, where the global village form ILC in March 2009 will take place :D. Hope to see as many of you joining to our ILC, march 13-19, 2009!!!

Then I move one of the most competitive countries in the region in economics (of course the size helps to be so); El Salvador. What a nice place, warm people, great weather, big challenges, great potential. Cindy (MCVP X) and her nana were amazing, what a great hospitality, Stela (OCP 60th anniversary) & Stefan (MCP) did everything to make my week there. We work out many things trying to put El Salvador in place, things are happening there now!!!

On the weekend we visit the beach, my first time at the pacific ocean :D. If you guys go once try “Popusas” are great! You can expect a lot of growth from this country in 2009! Stefan, Cindy & Stela, GO for it!

Keep updating,

Felipe!
AIESEC in Iberoamerica Director

December Greetings from the network!

2008-12-12T12:52:00.004+01:00

Thanks! :)

Made it to Iran

2008-12-12T12:39:00.001+01:00

After a mild bout of anxiety before leaving Qatar, I finally made it to Iran safe and sound! I had an excellent night spent with about 400 of my closest friends, all sleeping on the beautiful floor of the Sharjah airport. Two flights, One 14 hour layover, 2.5 movies and 5 hours of crappy sleep next to the cell phone recharge station and I finally I made it to Iran where the MC greeted me after going through customs.

Interesting sign at the airport: "A woman is beautiful who wears hijab (veil) and who acts with modesty and decency". Welcome to Iran :)

So far I'm having a great time with the MC team -- we're working hard and eating lots of delicious Iranian food.

hope all is well in the office with all the visitors! :)

Annika!

The power of the global network

2008-12-12T12:35:00.000+01:00

An important milestone in my term has passed by and I feel more than satisfied.. I feel, full! :)

The Global Communication Crew meeting 2008 was hosted in Rotterdam the last week thanks by the financial support of UNILEVER, that supports us in the development of the areas of Talent Management and Communication in AIESEC.

So far, it has been the most powerful experience I have had in my term in AIESEC International.

I had the big privilege to facilitate the learning of 12 amazing people, really committed with the organization, who decided to spend an entire week to learn, support and think the future of the network from the role of Communication.

Three romanians, one girl studyng Maths and managing the Exchange and Communication area of AIESEC in Sweeden, the other girl responsible for Communication in AIESEC in Romania since she was in her Local Committe in her university, and the guy, now working for a company who selected him for his ideas and professionalism.

Two australians girls, one of them travelling 20 hours to get Rotterdam and managing virtually the External Relations of AIESEC in Australia while she was attending the meeting. The other one, the most incredible colleague in Communication I have ever had in my life.

Two funny and really smart brazilians, one supporting the national initiatives of AIESEC in Brazil and the other one, managing the Communications of AIESEC in Spain, the last one living a powerful cultural experience and personal discovery.

One sweet, peaceful, creative greek, passionated about the external communications, responsible for the great performance of AIESEC in Greece till now.

A lovely and really inteligent girl, responsible to manage the Communication of AIESEC in Singapore. Small girl with big ideas and character.

Another colombian in the team! This girl is younger than me and today is part of a consultancy firm of Communcations in Colombia, supporting and managing accounts with big companies and also voluntary supporting the activities of Communication in AIESEC. She also connected me to my home, she brough me coffee, cakes and sweets I am missing from home.

A funny and focused italian girl. She is responsible to lead the Communication team of AIESEC in Italy and also supporting the organization of the next AIESEC International Presidents Meeting in Italy, taking place in the next February 2009.

The girl responsible for the Communication of AIESEC in Portugal is an intelligent, analytical, supportive and direct person. She is excited to manage the initiatives of Brand experience in the coming months.

There were also 5 members more that, unfortunately, were not able to attend the meeting because of different reasons, mostly because of lack of money: the responsible for Communication and External Relations of AIESEC Pakistan, of AIESEC in Turkey, of AIESEC in Egypt and the Communication responsible of AIESEC in Colombia and AIESEC in Hong Kong.

The person resposible to manage and coordinate these incredible team -and virtually- is a Serbian, he was in charge of Communication of AIESEC in Serbia last year, when the country was selected as the best performing AIESEC Country in Branding and Communication initiatives in the 2007. He is the best complement for me to manage this amazing team.

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We were working from 10am till 8pm every day, thinking in the big impact we could generate if we bring to the organization that piece that is missing in the puzzle: connection! To imagine how cool could be that more people would know about our work, if even more the AIESEC members world wide could be more connected as the way we are, doesn't matter in which country, GMT, political or economic reality we belong to.

About how cool would be if we could spread the stories we generate and to show the impact we are creating in the world every single day. One by One, changing young people's life. Enabling life changing AIESEC experiences.

Suddenly, we were talking in the same language and creating a good family!
Thinking in big initiatives to make this possible and also sharing as old friends. No idea when we'll see each other again, no idea how our lives will change after this week, coming back to their countries, continuing their jobs and commited to the network virtually.

This is how AIESEC works, putting brilliant people together! creating friendship, facilitating personal and professional development, activating leadership, connecting this unbelievable organizaton moved thanks by the passion of its members!

Thanks guys! :)

Lala.

Kate in Greece!

2008-12-12T12:31:00.000+01:00

In team building games during the AIESEC in Greece National Conference :)

Phil, discovering Africa!

2008-11-26T12:57:00.002+01:00

Lunch with the MC Team

“I have booked you for Sunday!” said Joseph Ndahiro my host in Rwanda. He is the MC Vice President in-charge of Information management. Prior to him being in the MC, he went to Kenya for a traineeship on an Education and ICT project late last year when I was the MCP of AIESEC Kenya. He had already made a plan for me for Sunday with an itinerary of visiting certain places of Kigali. What amazed me though was his unending bright smile and enthusiasm about life, and the great concern he has about the state of affairs in humanity at the moment. Earlier that day, we had talked briefly about the political skirmishes that took place in Kenya earlier in the year, he narrated the events of the day after the elections in Kenya and his ordeal of seeing Kenya going down the drain with its political class moving into rallying their communities behind them on the general elections. Joseph, aka Boggie, feared for Kenya at the time. He used to hear some pronouncements by the political elite and ostensibly knew that this was the road towards very hard moments in Kenya.

That’s one of the reasons why part of that itinerary was to take me to the Kigali Memorial center, so that I could see for myself the atrocities and the history of what happened during the dark 100 days that Rwanda went through the genocide. We left home early for town with the most popular Kigali “Motos” which are public Motorcycles and are one of the means of transportation around Kigali. I liked the “Motos” especially because they were very comfortable, fast and convenient considering the nature and number of hills one had to pass through. One thing worth mentioning was the unequivocal state of Kigali streets; they were extremely clean, flowers and beautiful trees besides the roads, well thought through urban planning and architecture which has thus worn Kigali as one of the cleanest and organized cities in Africa. In fact, the Rwandese government was clearing slums in the city and building posh houses in those areas.

We passed by the bank to get some quid and thereafter headed to the Memorial center. Ever since I heard of the story of Rwanda, I was then 11 years old, South Africa was in the midst of their first elections meaning an end to the barbaric and unthinkable minority white rule in South Africa and the world had turned a blind eye to what was happening in Rwanda, I had never quite understood the details of what actually happened, who was involved etc. We alighted from the motos and headed towards the gates. The area was solemn and quiet; the guards searched us and allowed us in. At the reception we were met by a young lady who ushered us in, gave us instructions not to take photos inside and asked us to go through the basement where we would start reading and listening to the whole story of the genocide, then go upstairs where would go to the section of other genocides like the German led genocide of the Herero people in Namibia, the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide amongst others.

I would definitely not try to replay what the story was, as it is widely known. But my main learning from reading and listening to the people who went through the genocide was that people can be inhuman and the worst of devils of humanity can be unearthed and cause the demise of a people. The intricacies of the involvement of foreign governments in the training of the militias, called “Intarahamwe,” the funding by the local dons and international governments made me wonder in agony, the current chest thumping and arrogance of some governments with blood held wealth indeed going in history of the worst crimes against humanity. It unearthed in me detestation of the architects’ of the genocide, and more so, their continued interest in some countries within Africa and their continued denial of their involvement in the genocide which reverberates wrongly in ears of many. However, forgiveness is due as that’s the sure way of keeping ones heart in peace.

We took 4 hrs in the memorial, we then came out of the building, went through the mass graves and Boggie informed me that when construction of Kigali and other places goes on, construction workers often find new human remains, which then necessitates the expansion of the mass graves. That was one of the best four hours spent in my entire visit.

We then went to the visiting day of Boggie’s sister not so far away from the memorium. We had fun over there, and later on in the day had family time with Boggies family, who showered me with presents, - The African Way, after which the next day I left for Abyssinia!

Kate freezing in Italy

2008-11-26T10:08:00.002+01:00

Our Director of Western Europe and North America in her visit to the MC team in Italy!

Story from the Gulf

2008-11-23T11:13:00.004+01:00

Today was an incredible day here in Qatar.

As I sat in the closing plenary of the 2nd ever Gulf Conference, I looked around me and saw 75 AIESEC members from Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, the UAE, and Iran. Within the membership of these countries, about 20 countries of origin were represented -- from Somali and Sudan, to Iraq and Syria, from India and Bangladesh, to Saudi and Jordan.

A little less than a year ago the Gulf Conference was born, by two visionary MCPs in the Bahrain and Qatar who wanted to have a conference in Qatar but couldn't because of cultural and legal restrictions. Thus the first Gulf conference was held in Bahrain in February, with representatives of Bahrain, Qatar and Oman and members had the chance to discuss what kind of AIESEC they would like to see in the Gulf.

Here in the Gulf, student run organizations are completely unheard of here as young people are not expected to be able to take care of themselves and are given no real responsibility. It is unusual that nationals and expatriate people are working together on the same level, discussing the future of a region that impacts both of their futures.

Everyday, LCs face challenging ethical questions: will we be able to attract companies or other Gulf nationals if part of the leadership is Indian, or Sri Lankan? Will everyone feel comfortable being part of a training where both males and females are present? How will a shy new female member work in a team with males as she has never spoken to a male in her life expect her father and her brothers?

This is special conference. There are no AIESEC dances at this conference, definitely no alcohol, there aren't many guys and girls hugging but there is a spirit and desire for development and change that is incredible. You can hear loud and clear the voices of young people who want to develop, to contribute to a sustainable future of AIESEC in the Gulf.

Not only did these members stand up saying they believe in AIESEC, companies, organizations finally stepped forward to say Yes we support AIESEC. Companies like Qatar Petroleum, the Qatar Businessman's Association, Unilever, PwC, Salam International, BNP Paribas participated and talked about how amazed they were by the scale of the conference and the professionalism. Sheikh Faisal, the second most important man in the country of Qatar gave the opening speech talking about the importance of youth and his support for AIESEC, afterwards inviting all the AIESEC members to his musuem, where we spent a wonderful evening seeing ancient pieces of art, fossils, clothing, cars, carpets and much more before being invited to a wonderful dinner. At the end of the night the Sheikh stood up and addressed the students, talking about his experience growing up and how he had to try and fail many times before getting it right. I wish you could all be there to see the looks on the members faces as he talked about what an important experience AIESEC would provide them.

And that's not to mention the media who will help spread the amazing work of AIESEC here.

Now it's time to run with the momentum created by the event to really bring to life Qatar and the rest of the Gulf countries.

A huge huge recognition goes out to Petra Chovancova, the MCP of Qatar who has pushed hard to make this conference happen and not to accept the belief that it's just not possible in Qatar. Also to Monaem, the MENA ER manager who worked intensively with the OC and the VP ERs in the Gulf to raise partners for the event, and Driss who has been working on bringing back members to AIESEC here and training them to understand and love exchange. Also congratulate David from Oman for doing a great job managing the agenda.

From a happy MENA Director

5.000 Exchanges!!

2008-11-12T16:50:00.002+01:00

CONGRATULATIONS AIESEC!
We have delivered 5000 life changing exchange experiences in 2008!

This is a historical milestone for AIESEC and is our highest ever annual performance in the last 15 years. We have experienced high growth rates since the beginning of the year, reflecting the high impact we are creating in the environment.

We at AIESEC International are very excited about this achievement, and take this opportunity to congratulate each and every member of AIESEC who has contributed to the achievement of this milestone.

We are celebrating in Rotterdam, and we encourage you to celebrate in your countries and LCs as well!

While celebrating the success we have achieved so far, we also need to ACT on our goal of 6300 exchanges by December 31st! This means that we need to GROW by 180% in November and December to achieve 1300 exchanges. We have the available and matched pipeline to achieve this goal -

We need to act NOW!
Lets go after our goal of 6300 and ACHIEVE IT!

Happy B-day Ewelina!

2008-11-10T00:16:00.002+01:00

Apple cake and good company to our Global Partnership Manager, Ewelina! :)

Some thoughts from the roads of CEE!

2008-11-10T00:00:00.003+01:00

Hey Team,

I am dropping you a line to share some thoughts from the road. Well, in the past couple of weeks since leaving the office, I met quite an impressive amount of fascinating people that we have in our network, and I want to let you know on some of their stories, as they've quite inspired me. Funny thing, we are talking about legends, developing legends, but to my great surpise I found that some of these legends are already working with us, in different MCs or LCs. They're called Milan, Michal, Adam, Marco, Boby, Asia, Tony and some others.

What about them?
They all have some impresive life xp and @ experiences. Michal for instance is polish but working in the bulgarian MC as MC VP Communication. He was competing for the national cycling championship in Poland - he came 2nd place. 2 km before the finish line, before getting in a curve, he fell - his dream had collapsed, his 2 year long training camp with wake ups at 6 am was for nothing. But somehow, in a fraction of a second, he decided he will continue! And so he did, before the finish line some hundres meters, the batch of cyclists in front of him slowed down, he accelerated and came in second. As an LCVP in his LC, he had a very interesting schedule at AIESEC Conferences: wake ups at 6, training on the hills near the venue for 2 hrs, some 40 kms, morning plenary, sessions, lunch was for cycling as well, quick lunch, afternoon sessions than some evening chit chat, no eating after 6 pm, and the next day from the begining. He quit this as he chose AIESEC and finishing his studies.

Milan is Partnerships Manager in the MC of Serbia. He practiced pretty much all the possible sports in the world - team as well as individual type of soprts: chess for 4 years, volley ball for 3 years, handball for his highschool team, Aikido for 4 years, and some others that just skip my mind. He got injured and stoped training, he repeted 3rd year of university to go to MC. He slept on average 4-5 hrs per night during the past 3 weeks, as it had been a hot sales time in his MC [AIKIDO training helps aparently with this]. As LC VP ER he turned his LC around and achieved for the 1st time in the history of AIESEC Serbia, 55 years old, 100% of his planned objectives. He raised 22 TNs - the previous term had done 4 - he created the most fantastic ER team structure I have ever seen in AIESEC, he reads 1 management book per month, he is exptremely disciplined and is operating with a lot of funky concepts about ER. He is really modest and humble in spite of this succes and wants to go to an internship in Japan to train AIKIDO with a professional master, although this would mean waking up at 5 am every day! He is a big fan of Heading for the Future... products :)!

Aigul is a 22 year old russian girl, MCP of Slovenia. She manages 4 boys, all older than her - well that's not an easy task, right, ladies? ;). Marco, MC VP X in her team is portuguese, joined AIESEC 2 years ago, studies telecommunications and works for 2 companies from office/home in Ljubljiana. He is officially part time MC member, doesn't get paid, but dedicates 8 hrs a day to his VPs and his goals. He is doing matching constantly and will realize 25 exchanges in Q4. Slovenia did 6 the whole last year!

That's my "bulletin" about the legendary people I've met so far. Hope you will get maybe just a little bit of the inspiration Ive got by capturing these experiences and sharing those thoughts with you!

Tomorrow I am doing an LC Visit in Katowice, Poland! Hope to keep you updates with other cool stories from our network of legendary individuals,

Mo

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Monica Costea
Director, Central and Eastern Europe
AIESEC International

World's Largest Persian rug, and World's Largest Chandelier

2008-11-09T23:55:00.002+01:00

I know you were all wondering where the world's largest carpet and largest chandelier are and now you know.
They're in Oman!

The Sultan has an amazing mosque here that we went to this morning to check it out. It was a bit awkward as we were wearing abayas, the traditional Omani dress, but clearly looked foreign so people weren't quite sure if we were there to pray or to take pictures.

Cheers from 33 Degree Oman,

Annika

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Annika Rudback
Director of the Middle East & North Africa
AIESEC International

spreaded all around...

2008-11-07T12:04:00.004+01:00

November 3th to 10th
2008!

AI 0809 - Presentation of the team at IC

2008-09-15T21:20:00.012+02:00

Hey AIESECers!

This time we want to share with you these two videos that we used for our introduction to the Global Plenary at the AIESEC International Congress 2008 en Brazil.

Special recognition to...

{Sophie - AI VP Talent Management

Deepti - AI VP Exchange}

for this beautiful video about our lives, feelings and best moments :)

to...

{Monica - AI Director for CEE GN

Phil - AI Director for AFRICA GN

Felipe - AI Director for IBERO AMERICA GN

Alejandra- AI VP Communication}

for the choreography in the AI Dance 0809!

[4 Minutes, by Maddona Ft. Justin Timberlake]

and to...

All the AI0809 team for learned it.. even to Aman "solo"! :)

Enjoy it! :)

first feelings of the new team

2008-06-05T13:58:00.002+02:00

"It is like your first day at the school...
Getting to know your class mates, paying attention carefully to your teacher, identifying where the bathroom, the kitchen, your desktop are located, Feeling comfortable -or not- with your first tasks assignment, getting lost in the city.. etc.

But the coolest thing is getting impressed about how great -and globally- the current AI team members understand the organization. How they got experience in managing their personal an professional stuff. How they understand what is happening in Asia, Europe, Afria and America at the same time. How they have created A TEAM of more than 20 members and more than 10 nationalities. It looks complex for one year, but I think it won't be complicated at the end. :)

For me, it is amazing to note how the organization let you work next to all of these brilliant people..."

Lala

Keep reporting from here while you keep stay tuned there! :)

AI0709 transition kicks off!

2008-06-05T13:50:00.002+02:00

2nd of June 2008 | Officially starting our transition.
Getting to know each other and Gabiza's welcome words :)

From Achievers to Legends

2008-06-02T16:25:00.003+02:00

A year has passed already since the AI0708 team arrived to the office to start transition. Many things have happened in between, a generation os achievers that wanted to move the organization forward.
A group of people that decide to run for one of the most challenging adventures in AIESEC... Now one year later the new team is in the house and for the next two months, untill July 31st 2008, both team will be working together in the AI office in Rotterdam.
We want to invite you all to follow our transition and to share this moment with us. Through this blog we will share all special moments, and for getting to know the agenda and the resources that we want to share, make sure that you subscribe to the wiki in MyAIESEC.net

For Achievers to legends, is the topic of transition don't miss it

AIESEC International 07-09

A new year, lot of expectation

2008-01-22T08:13:00.001+01:00

We wish you the best in this year

AIESEC International 07-08

Making HEROES Happen!!!

2007-11-11T09:58:00.000+01:00

Greetings from Bangkok! Things are rocking out in Asia Pacific. I’ve been learning loads…

The Superficial/Snapshot Overview: I am heading into my 6th week on the road... just arrived in smiling Thailand. :) Have spent time Japan, Malaysia, Australia... with quick stops in Hong Kong and Singapore. Also met with the MCPs from New Zealand, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia tooo!

The Slightly Less Superficial Overview: Yeah. I am a this point where trying to capture the last 6 weeks in a “post” is, without questin, impossible. So, I’ll just reflect on one highlight from my time with my new family…

HEROES 2007, Malaysia

About 3 weeks ago, 60 delegates gathered from 12 countries/territories in Malaysia at a HEROES 2007 – its first year as an OFFICIAL AP GN CONFERENCE!!! .

Personally it was a thrill, this was my first conference in the AP GN! Sharon helped me through adapting to the AP conference culture, which is really different from my Canadian and other international experiences. Dances were MUCH more complicated (I was SO out of my league… sad, really). Evening activities were comfortably and happily dry and … scary (murderous Malaysians!! ;p) Sugar writing was an extremely disciplines and serious endeavor.

Overall I was honoured to facilitate with my entire AP GN Board and Sandy – MCP Malaysia, and our chair was unspeakable inspiring – thanks Janne! And by the end of the conference, we were all feeling empowered, proud (especially of the 25 matches and 15 future exchanges via LC partnerships set up, 40 exchanges with 60 delegates!?!??!), and just a little bit more… heroic.

Want to see the HEROES HEROES? Check it out:

(NOTE: Translation of clip, since its blurry: "HEY AIESEC! We're Making HEROES Happen!!" Followed by a stunning, beautiful cheer that may resemble a certain WENA cheer, but actually mirrors a Canadian cheer, of which the former MCP was happy to bestow... hehehehhehehe.)

The IS team is about to serve

2007-11-05T22:36:00.001+01:00

Every morning I go to the office and look at the board behind our desks were the countdown doesn't stop. Every day a step closer, and every day more anxious and restless, expectant and curious for what is going to happen and what is going to be the impact when the new system go live...

In 36 days MyAIESEC.net will go live and the dreams on many people is going to become true. I can't wait to see it; it is a unique opportunity were every member of AIESEC is taking part and I proud of being there to see it happen

Martha Alzate

AI 07/08 Introduction Video

2007-09-18T21:02:00.000+02:00