Marko and Marian enjoying IC in Brazil

For those who don't know, Marko and Marian are always presented with us at the International Congress in Brazil. They are as well as us enjoying our common delegation meetings, attending the parties and sessions... YES! :)

How come, you didn't know about that? 

Happy delegation hours all together. Do you see Marko and Marian?

Not so happy delegation meetings. Hey, what Kristina is doing with Marian?

Marko with CC girl, trying to get beer for free :) And he got it!

Here Marko got Global partnership with Alcatel-Lucent

Colombian girls love Marko! :)

Marian found a pretty Belgium guy from WENA GN Board :)

Ohhh, Colombian MCP loves Marian! :)

Marko and his former LCP from Parnu - Helena :)

Marko and Marian enjoying party on turkish delegation shoulders

Marko trying the taste of spanish cocktail

Marko and Aika together at the party with Anuala (WENA GN Board) and MCP Poland

Marko is enjoying the session even after the party :) We don't know where Marian was that time...

We feel the greatest spirit of our team when we are all together! :)

See you already soon in Tallinn!

Global Village and Opening Ceremony of IC

Hey, dear AIESEC Estonia!

The very first day of every International Congress is always celebrated by the official opening and Global Village, but this IC is very special one, as the whole organization is celebrating its 60th anniversary around the globe this year. It’s one of the richest and flashy celebration of success of our organization since it was established in 1948 after the II WW, capitalizing on what was achieved and what impact brings AIESEC to country communities until now.

Opening ceremony

Speech of PAI - Juan

Brazilian capoeira show

Gaucho dancers 

Congress Committe team - around 60 people from 25 countries, they are really doing a great job here

One of the most amazing events when the International Congress starts is Global Village, when more than 106 countries of AIESEC present their diverse cultures and nationalities and everyone has the opportunity to know more about them - it's a showcase of the countries through this festival of music, food, drink and traditional clothes.

AIESEC Estonia was one of the most beautiful delegation at the Global Village and all the time we were more than welcome to be taken the pictures with us and visitors as well as IC delegtes were interested to know more about our country, food and cultural features.

Before the Global Village started

Estonian table at the Global Village

 

Right now only 2 days of the conference left and we are really looking forward to come back home and start everything happen in AIESEC Estonia :)

Missing ours dearest Marian and Marko a lot! Warm brazilian hugs! :)

your Aika, Maarja, Lauri and Kristina

First experience with Brazil

Hi all,

Though it is already our 5th day at IC and 14th in IC, we manage right now to do a posting about study tour now, as it is extremely hard to get into internet here.

Just wanted to share a bit about our study tour which we decided to spend in Goyas instead of Rio De Janiro. It seems that people in MC are more into nature than sightseeing in famous places.

Goyas is a state in Brazil, which is situated in the middle of the country, more north from Sao Paolo state.

Which we learnt about Brazilians?
They are extremely friendly and smiling even if things are going wrong

When they say it is close, it is actually really far

When they say it takes one hour to get to some place, then double this time. Trip from Sao Paulo to Goyania should have taken 12 hours, but it took 16.

As we didn't have a change to wash, we used other means for that

What we experienced?
That Brazilia is extremely big and getting from one place to another needs patience and plenty of time. We travelled 16 hours to get from one city to another which is comparable with driving to Poland, but at the mean time you have seen already 4 countries.

That’s why the weather is completely different. It was cold and raining in Sao Paulo, but it was 30 degrees and very dry in Goyania. It was even so dry that we saw many field and forest fires, but as it turned out later the locals are setting the fires themselves to prevent the huge fires.

There is a weird system in the gas stations and every bar as well. When u enter the gas station you will get a sheet of paper and all the things you wanna buy will be labeled by the shop assistant and then written on the paper. So in the end you will pay by the sheet of paper. We figured it out that maybe people who are serving the food are not allowed to touch the money. Even in the hotel we get the coupons to buy something.

In gasstations it was good to strech ourselves

Extremely beautiful waterfall, with extemely gold but refreshing water

Culture experience by rehershing capoeira. Aika as Estonian master on that:)

The one and only ecofarm where everything is handmade and grown on spot which makes it sustainable and good

The famous coconut drink

In the capital Brazilia. The house of the parliament. An interesting thing about Brazilia is that the city has a shape of an aeroplane. The main body belonges to all administrative institutions and people are living in the "wings" part.

Stay tune for more updates as it seams that there will be more internet from now on.

Boa noite,

Maarja

Cool-based AIESEC XP

You are having a COOL eXPerience if…
...what you do is fun
...you feel that your contribution is recognized
...people around you make you happy

Way to cool experiences: make people around you important!

All about money - This Thursday in MC Office Reakoja square 16

Ahoi ja tere everybody!

As 4/6 of MC is far-far away in Brazil it`s time for a nice gathering in MC office ("kassid läinud, hiirtel pidu" as they say in Estonia...)

This Thursday (28th of August) at 1900 You are all welcomed to MC office for
"All About Money" learning circle/office chill

Let`s talk about money, being/becoming rich (or not), play some Monopoly (or not) and other self-created-money-related-

games. At the same time we can enjoy just nice company of each other and snack+drinks (bring your own).

NB! No MC money is distributed during the evening!

Marian and Marko are waiting for you.

See you soon!

IC experience for MCPs

I have to admit that my predecessors were al right when they said that IC for MCPs is totally different xp than for MC members. Lot of my time I have spent on strategic discussions about the future of the organization management issues. And the good thing with MCPs network is that it is not only a discussion, but we have the power to change things. During the IC we have a lot of legislation fairs were different proposals for changes in the way we do things (according to international compendium) are proposed and argued. So far we have gone through with all the MCPs 2 important topics:

AI Internal Auditors report with recommendations for MCPs what to raise in the legislation.

AIESEC US case, with presentation from the research team that was composed to solve the issue reported to global network in July. This topic will continue also next day. It is a delegate topic with lot of emotions, but the most important thing is to understand the core of the issue and take it as a new experience the organization is going through. And it is great to be part of this decision making time.

I have also been selected as part of the Finance subcommittee and Steering team, which means extra work and fun during IC. Finance subcommittee is group of MCPs representing each GN to review AI finances and management, including country fees calculation models, AI annual reports and budgets etc. This team will also put togheter recommendations for Global Plenary for Legislation.

The Steering team has 3 topics to be discussed during IC:

How to measure quality and what should be the measures?

Aligning structures internationally – defining the GN boards role, MC role and other bodies roles in different countries and coming up with an answer shouldn’t or should they be aligned internationally and how?

Creating a planning model that could be used by all the countries and that takes into consideration the external environment.

But apart from work there is also fun – and I am off to the Africa party to meat with cool alumnae from all over the world who arrived at IC today.

Estonian delegation is doing well and we are recognized and famous with our flag-shirt ;).

Estonian delegation at IC arrived to Brazil

Hey!

As much as the time and internet connection here allows, your MC will start posting here news about what is going on in the biggest event of AIESEC this year, the International Congress 2008 in Brazil.

Here are some photos that characterize this long travelling day which started 5:45 in Tallinn's airport, had about 14 flight hours, and ends now with getting used to the time difference.

By the way it's cold here, 17 degrees.

In the airplane we all became excited as little children about the possibility to play video games and watch movies from our seat.

Just arrived to Brazil. We have Marian and Marko with us as kind of voodoo dolls.

View from Triinu Gröön's apartment in Sao Paulo. Tomorrow we will go from here to study tour.