Long time, no see...
As soon as we've got our internet connection back in the MC apartment I was looking on my blog and I realized how long passed since I posted anything here. So here I am after more than two weeks telling you what I've been doing in Macedonia these days and I will also upload some photos as I've been kindly asked to :) Pretty much my activity in this period can be divided into the pre MILDS period, MILDS and post MILDS period.As you might have seen already MILDS was the activity everybody was focusing on in this period. I have myself been involved in this conference in various ways, delegate, OC member, faci, about witch I will tell you more throughout this post. It all started with the preparations for the conference when I was asked to help the MILDS OC on IS related issues so I was the one to design the Logo and all the templates and promotional materials for the conference. With a few days before the conference the pre meeting started in the MC apartment so basically all the facis were here all the way long having one or two meetings a day and preparing their sessions, ppts and handouts in meantime.
In the second day of the pre meeting it was the time for the chair to come. He's name is Chris and even he is from Canada, he is the current MC ER in AIESEC Slovenia. As we were told that he is quite an cool guy we decided to offer him an appropriate reception to Macedonia were he was coming for the first time. What we decided to do was to send Ravin, the Indian guy, to wait for him at the train station pretending he is a trainee and take Chris to a spot on the side of the row where I, backed up by Kare (MC VP Projects elect), a guy who is about 1,80 m height and about 150 kg, "stolen" Chris' bag and run as fast as I could. In the end this was put in action and turned out very well, everybody could see the whole show and even catch it on camera from the balcony of the mc apartment.
The conference started with a very good atmosphere and a lot . Even if there were not so many delegates (there were about 80) you could feel a great energy and the internationalism brought by the 15 foreigners. The first evening was the Global Village were everybody was presenting brochures, traditional cloths, food an not lastly drinks from their own countries. Here I've been a bit disappointed because I've only used about 1/4 of the 2 liters Romanian brandy (tuica, palinca, rachiu, ... call it as you want). I think that they were getting a bit scared after having the first shoot because of the 60% pure alcohol this drink contains.
The second day was the AIESEC University day, the day were I was a faci. Here was were we had the opportunity to showcase the beta version of the membership database I'm developing for AIESEC in Macedonia. We received a good feedback for his together with some good enhancement ideas. Late on in the day it was the time for me to hold the session about the AIESEC Information Systems. As far as I know this session contained very good information that I hope will help the members of Macedonian LCs in their AIESEC work and also gave me the opportunity to practice my facilitating skills developing and delivering this session. This night's party was called "Animal Party" so you can only imagine how this turned out.
The third day was the external day where all the sessions were hold by company representatives who actually paid for that so the people were dressed in a business/casual manner and the lait motiv of the sessions was the leadership. This day ended up with the Official Banquet witch had as a team the Salsa spirit. The dinner was fancier than the other before and there was a band invited to sing. It turned out quite interesting as I've never seen before an band in an AIESEC event, just for you to have an image in your had it looked to me pretty much as a wedding let's say. After another few sessions and making the group pictures by the Ohrid lake we all came back to Skopje by a rented bus. In the bus it was quite interesting, you could see that people are realizing that the MILDS is finishing but they somehow were not ready to accept it so they were only speaking about it as the best MILDS ever and dancing AIESEC dances.
This is how on of the best conferences I've ever attended ended. After this Chris and Maja, the MC VP PD elect who arrived a bit later, staid for so more in Skopje. Chris left after a few days and Maja is still here doing transition together with the new mc team. And about me, what else? I'm supposed to finish the database application and to start working on the other things like AIESEC.net communities and website in the next period. In meantime I will have as much fun as I can thing I expect from you too as it is one of the most important things in life :)
Till next time, time that I promise will not be so far as this one was,
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PS: As I’ve told you I’ve uploaded some pictures online, if you’re interested just go to my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93067850@N00 you can also see fotos from MILDS at this page: http://aiesecmace.fotopic.net/c956332.html
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