Friday, April 28, 2006

SPAIN - An integral personal learning

There I was, arriving to Madrid with a lot of expectations and certaincy in a land I could manage myself very easy.
Right after arriving, the great deep introduction with the MC, made my day full of excitement and gave me the better understanding of the country reality.

Two days of a very intense pre-meeting I've ever had, and we were without noticing already in the bus way to Zaragoza.

I have never been a chair before, and this opportunity definitely represented what I was looking for after 10 months in the ER team in AI; feel the ground in my hands again. Through the flow of the conference, the environment was being built. I could see the right people connecting, doing and understanding the relevance of their work and I felt inspired by their actions. This inspiration automatically set in my mind the final reflections and messages to send accross the plenary every day. I learnt to speak up from my heart as I have been very used to do it from my mind, and I could feel the connection.
I could smell the ending of my AIESEC career with a good taste of satisfaction.

On another note, I also felt challenged for confronting things I never expected. I was put for the first time in my life (in AIESEC and outside of AIESEC) in one of the most difficult situations i have ever had. I had a combination of feelings while balancing the role of moderator I had to play at the moment needed and see AIESEC not being AIESEC anymore.

The conference itself for me was a combination of excitement, inspiration, ENJOYMENT, confusion, frustration, but for sure a complete learning process for me as an individual.

This conference for me meant a small big part of my legacy to the organisation and I am sure what we gave, built and did at this conference represented a legacy for AIESEC SPAIN as a country in the coming years...

I lived and loved AIESEC in SPAIN!

Other learnings from the experience:
- I can really be loud when doing roll calls ;)
- Roll calls are for sure a cultural expression, Oh yes!
- The best fun is the one you get making fun of yourself!
- I am such an audiovisual person, lets make a videito!

Sunday, April 09, 2006

When some hours seem a life - There is still a hope!
So this is it. I went to the embassy this morning to vote for the national president elections of Peru.
Besides of the fact that most of the people around me were peruvian women and dutch men carrying babies, everything was as normal as in Peru...
I am arriving home being 11:46 in Rotterdam, and the real time transmitions of the local channels do not work... I got to know from my peruvian friends thar either Humala (main leader for the attack to the local government in Puno were a lot of people were killed) and also compared to Chavez is on top of the first announced results together with Alan garcia, our former president who left the country with the highest inflation in the history nor only of Peru but also in the history of the world...

The only texts I see in the msn are:
"que no cunda el panico" - "That the panic does not take the people"
" hay aun esperanza" - Is there still any hope?" -
"Pasalo Lourdes pasalo" "Lourdes go over him"

Lets see what happens in the next hour. In the meantime, I will find out about how to apply for politic asilum...