Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Coming to an end
I am sorry for not posting any news about what is going on here in Istanbul. The last days were less interesting than before.
We had sessions about AIESEC history.
It was organized like a talk show. Alumni sitting in the front, talking about their time in AIESEC. Later the former PAIs Dey and Pedro as well as AI Director Arthur told about their experience. It was nice to see this and definitely better than last year when 10 former PAIs were called on the phone from inside the plenary. But the sessions were long and people became tired.
The Learning Network Day yesterday was disappointing. The level of the sessions held by companies' and NGOs' representatives were relatively low, compared to the expectations I had. Thus I skipped the afternoon part and had a long talk about extending to the Middle East with a former AIESECer now working for Microsoft. I still have to assemble my thoughts about this talk...
Today started the last part of the conference which is about Go (Ready - Stead - Go). The different GNs presented themselves to each other so the countries might know better where to focus on. In my opinion that is more a topic for the beginning of the conference when people don't know each other yet.
Now it continues with the partner workshops. The partners organize workshops about topics or case studies they would like us to work on. We will see how it will be like. in the evening legislation will take place - this night we will know if the Iran initiative with Jonas from Cologne can continue their efforts. And then tomorrow the Official Dinner will be organized near a Bospurus bridge - and I will leave.
See you soon in Berlin :)
We had sessions about AIESEC history.
It was organized like a talk show. Alumni sitting in the front, talking about their time in AIESEC. Later the former PAIs Dey and Pedro as well as AI Director Arthur told about their experience. It was nice to see this and definitely better than last year when 10 former PAIs were called on the phone from inside the plenary. But the sessions were long and people became tired.
The Learning Network Day yesterday was disappointing. The level of the sessions held by companies' and NGOs' representatives were relatively low, compared to the expectations I had. Thus I skipped the afternoon part and had a long talk about extending to the Middle East with a former AIESECer now working for Microsoft. I still have to assemble my thoughts about this talk...
Today started the last part of the conference which is about Go (Ready - Stead - Go). The different GNs presented themselves to each other so the countries might know better where to focus on. In my opinion that is more a topic for the beginning of the conference when people don't know each other yet.
Now it continues with the partner workshops. The partners organize workshops about topics or case studies they would like us to work on. We will see how it will be like. in the evening legislation will take place - this night we will know if the Iran initiative with Jonas from Cologne can continue their efforts. And then tomorrow the Official Dinner will be organized near a Bospurus bridge - and I will leave.
See you soon in Berlin :)
