Life is a Mosaic

India update

Namaste!

I thought living in five-star hotel with internet facilities makes the communication very easy, but... There is absolutely no time! All days are packed with sessions, meetings, and workshops, and when you finally can take a breath and see what you can do, the working hours of internet cafe are already over ;)

Anyway, here come some impressions from my time that I'm spending in India. The congress has already turned to it's second part, when as Brodie (President of AIESEC International) said, time starts running faster and faster. He was right - time flies. It seems that just a short while ago we had premeetings, get-to-knows and introductions, then went on with the expectation setting, went through long term vision building and lots of functional stuff, and now we are already sucked into the cycle of skills trainings. When it is not much left already, and you start discovering even more.

I think I am making the best of the conference so far, as the knowledge that I've got here is priceless for my term and my work for AIESEC. And again, I realize how much I love what I am doing - external relations and marketing is the best ;) Of course, knowldge is only one part - it's alsoall about people. The people I've met here are just amazing! Everyone - more than 300 talented individuals - all so different, but everyone is working on the same goal and speak the same AIESEC language. And during the parties you learn what a Nordic Highway is or how to swear in "pigeon English" (English used in Nigeria). I find it extremely inspiring :)

Apart for the content and feel of the conference, the parties were great so far. We had an India Night, where we had an opportunity to see what Indian culture is about. Most of the people wore Indian clothes, a Global Village of Local Committees in India and Indian dance performances on the stage. I absolutely love this culture.

One of the best parties Western Europe and North America party with strong Scandinavian alcohols, German games, Scotch from UK, tonns of Belgian beer and chocolate distributed and 'Kalashnijkov' being danced for the first time in this conference!

Tonight it is going to be a Central Eastern Europe party, so I will make sure to be a part of my origin properly ;) And It's very nice to see people from Lithuanian delegation around ;)

After writing all this I realized, that ongress is one more Mosaic in my mosaic - so many things, so many people, so many emotions... It is impossible to tell everything. But if you have any questions - feel fre to post them here, I will be glad to answer ;)

posted by Vija @ 5:33 AM