First days of the conference
Though it'll be impossible to sum up to an acceptable degree the experience I'm going through let's have a go at it...shall we ;)
Well the first two days of the confrerence were hard, it's my first time and having only arrived that morning ( as compared to others who had few days earlier) and tierd with jet lag, adn not being connected with the people already was a lot of preassure. On top to all that i had few logistical issues running through my mind and all this mean that it was tiring :)
The amazing thing I have to note was that soo many people offered me there help, simply knowing that it's hard to get in to things at your first IPM by your self as an elect. So I've got another reason to go for IPM 2007 in Egypt, even if it's to ensure that the next MCPe does not go through the samething.
In the middles of all this kaos there were some amazing times also...especially the PAI speeches, Q & A, PAI Word Issue discussion were inspring. The speech Dey gave stood out from the others and was quite an emotional one also.
I also met Jennifer Corriero, (http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/jenergy) the co-founder of Take it Global who is with us for several days here, and infact we've made cooperation plans between AIESEC in Sri Lanka and Take it Global. She'll be comign in for a conference in Sri Lanka and parallel to that we'll put together a forum on "Youth Participation" with the participation of Take it Global members in Sri Lanka and members of AIESEC in Sri Lanka. Our idea is to have this during the first week of May and if any of you are interested just let me know.
Last night I also managed to speak to Iris (Netherlands), Jurga (Lithuania) and Martina( Czech) who are friends that we hosted in Sri Lanka in my first year in AIESEC. Original plan was to meet up with all of them, but due to some mis communication I might not get to meet up with Jurga and Martina as they've come during the week of the conference. The weeked after the conference I will spend with Iris before travelling back.
On Monday I'll be going to a Dutch school where I will make a presentation on Sri Lanka to School children. The school had chosen suppporting two Orphanages in Sri Lanka as their annual social project and I though to encourage the kids by paying a visit and letting them know a bit about the beauty of Sri Lanka.
Right now we are in the planing stage of the IPM where the Global Plan is being taken on along with how to adapt it at coutry level. The amazing thing has been that this years IPM is really addressing the running crazy implementation of the AIESEC exprience and istead bringing a strong strategic focus for the organisation for the next years.
What does this mean, for me it means it will address the most practical problems and have a common answer to all so that we do not run around doing this and that. This will ensure that we run aligned activities within the organisation. " Product Leadership" as a strategy really will put things in perspective.
Let's keep at that for now...
Well the first two days of the confrerence were hard, it's my first time and having only arrived that morning ( as compared to others who had few days earlier) and tierd with jet lag, adn not being connected with the people already was a lot of preassure. On top to all that i had few logistical issues running through my mind and all this mean that it was tiring :)
The amazing thing I have to note was that soo many people offered me there help, simply knowing that it's hard to get in to things at your first IPM by your self as an elect. So I've got another reason to go for IPM 2007 in Egypt, even if it's to ensure that the next MCPe does not go through the samething.
In the middles of all this kaos there were some amazing times also...especially the PAI speeches, Q & A, PAI Word Issue discussion were inspring. The speech Dey gave stood out from the others and was quite an emotional one also.
I also met Jennifer Corriero, (http://profiles.takingitglobal.org/jenergy) the co-founder of Take it Global who is with us for several days here, and infact we've made cooperation plans between AIESEC in Sri Lanka and Take it Global. She'll be comign in for a conference in Sri Lanka and parallel to that we'll put together a forum on "Youth Participation" with the participation of Take it Global members in Sri Lanka and members of AIESEC in Sri Lanka. Our idea is to have this during the first week of May and if any of you are interested just let me know.
Last night I also managed to speak to Iris (Netherlands), Jurga (Lithuania) and Martina( Czech) who are friends that we hosted in Sri Lanka in my first year in AIESEC. Original plan was to meet up with all of them, but due to some mis communication I might not get to meet up with Jurga and Martina as they've come during the week of the conference. The weeked after the conference I will spend with Iris before travelling back.
On Monday I'll be going to a Dutch school where I will make a presentation on Sri Lanka to School children. The school had chosen suppporting two Orphanages in Sri Lanka as their annual social project and I though to encourage the kids by paying a visit and letting them know a bit about the beauty of Sri Lanka.
Right now we are in the planing stage of the IPM where the Global Plan is being taken on along with how to adapt it at coutry level. The amazing thing has been that this years IPM is really addressing the running crazy implementation of the AIESEC exprience and istead bringing a strong strategic focus for the organisation for the next years.
What does this mean, for me it means it will address the most practical problems and have a common answer to all so that we do not run around doing this and that. This will ensure that we run aligned activities within the organisation. " Product Leadership" as a strategy really will put things in perspective.
Let's keep at that for now...
posted by Suchith Abeyewickreme at 8:06 AM
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Any possibility of getting a recorded version of Dey's speech?
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