The game of cricket...

...no such notion to me...a mere eastern european...did not see it before...and certainly not understand it. :) If someone explains it merely..it's almost impossible to get. I remember my teacher Dorothy- Cambridge graduate- trying to explain the rules in a lesson. So funny- I thought I would never get it.

Funny enough, tonight, instead of normal trainee night- which is beer somewhere else- we had the boys play cricket. And I have to say..I feel like a winner- because after the first round I got the rules...and by the end also the scoring system! :) I beat it..and you know what? Next time I may just play too! Ha! :)

TED talks about success

And go Karting pictures as well :)

I really wanted to post these for you dad :) We went go-karting as a team building activity- as I mentioned in a post before and we had a really cool time :)

I wasn't as good as I thought I would be, because the steering was really difficult! We had muscle pain all week afterwards. But I realised that I can't wait to learn how to drive! :)

OPS 2008 in London- wonderful! :)

OPS...The conference we run for all our Exchange participants- students who go to work abroad with AIESEC. It is meant to explain to them what the organisation is, what the process they will go through is and what they will experience abroad- cultural sensitivity trainings, etc.

We had an amazing team of facilitators made out of my colleagues from the national team, trainee friends and people from local committees. And this was all chaired by a great individual, former AIESEC International team member: Taco. All of our experiences made a brilliant conference for around 100 people from all over the country.

We ran some great sessions for them- good case practise for an OPS anywhere in the world, because at the end people actually understood AIESEC and were feeling a part of the organisation- which is a great achievement for just 2 days.
We even managed to run a global village for them in a pub :P
We even cooked sarmale for the romanian stand the night before- and people loved them! :)

Over all we had an amazing time this weekend (11th and 12th of April)...and it looks like we will have to organise another similar one in May or June and I cannot wait! :)

Chairing a conference in Portugal...

28-30th of March: was a wonderful weekend! I was a chair for RIMT: the induction conference of AIESEC Coimbra NEFE, the Local Committee for which Antonio is LCP (President).
I had a wonderful team of facilitators and a great organising committee and together we were a dream team. :)


We had about 68 delegates (LTMs, EPs and members of Aveiro- a new LC they want to expand AIESEC into).

We had exciting sessions...

Trainings given by alumni...

Teambuilding games...

...and chill out times...

Over all I am sooo soo happy to have had this experience, as I always wanted to chair a conference. Its success makes me think that training, event management and facilitation, as well as agenda creation is something I am good at and I want to do on a longer term. :)So I am now in search of a job that could offer me that again.
See you soon Coimbra NEFE! May you continue to be a great team and may you have a great year ahead!

Amsterdam pics at last...

It all started off with a very eventful journey to get there by bus. 4 busses left London at the same time and they were all late- due to Easter weekend...and snow storms and so on.


It was certainly not what I expected, but so much more...I suppose I had just a one dimensional image of the city...just with those houses stuck close together and a few canals.

This was the weekend of the Easter holidays for the catholics. But all we could think of was that it was like Christmas. It rained and snowed on us ALL the time! So much so...

..that we had to stop for a hot chocolate every half an hour...

...and we just HAD to buy new gloves!

The first day we took a boat trip on the canals...
Which was wonderful, as we had an audio guide explaining elements of architecture, etc.

Afterwards we went to Van Gogh museum- whose life impressed me a lot. When we came out it was sooo soo very cold!!!! But that didn't stop us from taking more pictures :)

That night we of course had to go see the Red Light District...

And take pictures of Mary here growing in the window...(Marijuana:P)

The next day we were just being silly all day...

Taking pictures with the jumping motive everywhere...



We met Oana and her boyfriend who live here...

Who took us to the flower market and to some secret gardens....

...and of course to a coffee shop :)

Over all this city was wonderful!

I loved its beauty and its spirit...

As well as people's attitude and trendiness...

We still have a few things left for next time..the Rijksmuseum, Anne Frank's house and the sex museum...

There WILL be a next time...hopefully soon. :) Now that a good friend is also moving there.

Paintballing

This weekend I had one of the best experiences in a long time.
A few thoughts from it: rain, camouflage clothes, paitballs flying everywhere, bruises that now turned black, team work, sync, D- day, strategy, team motivation, shouts, falling, mud, burger lunch around the fire, expensive, friends and bonding, strenght in numbers.

I think I am closer to realising what it's like to be in a real battle!

Main learning: everyone needed to do their job and do it well, because no matter how small it was it was very important over all- it can make the difference between winning and losing! :)

Amazing

I love the song, the atmosphere of the event and the beauty and the strenght of the models. :) These are the kinds of events I want to do some day: with this atmosphere.