It's better to be prepared
I must have printed over 500 pages worth of stuff at work today. I haven't heard much about recycling since I arrived in Romania, so I didn't feel so eco-friendly.
I had my first nervous wreck for the first time in a long time today. I was a "guest speaker" at a recruitment event, but I had nothing prepared for it because I didn't know about it until yesterday afternoon. There was no time to prepare, so I just decided to wing it on the spot, which was a bad idea. I was talking too fast, and noticeably stiff. Apparently I wasn't the worst speaker at this event because there was a lady who advocated against internationalism, use of English, and claimed that it's better for students to stay in Romania to learn and promote Romanian culture. I don't know who invited her to the event, but I think that was the last time for her to speak at an AIESEC event, or to attend such an event at all.
I haven't been able to post on this blog lately, mainly because I'm too busy to post anything during work. So here's a brief summary of what happened in the past week.
1.) Global Village - I hosted a table to represent Japan at the global village, which was a part of @12/60. I did have a flag for USA as well but I noticed that I don't have much else to represent America, plus there were American Mormon missionary guys invited to do the job, so I decided to just represent Japan. Everyone seemed to like rice balls and origami pieces that I made. As Vlad said, "we should do this more often to attract girls" (with slightly different wording). I guess people found my table more exotic than the others because the only countries represented there were Romania, Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, USA, and Japan (Hungary and Ukraine are neighboring countries, Italy is almost there, and everyone outside of US knows more about US than the actual US citizens), and others didn't much to offer...only some books and not-so-creative food options (local pizza delivery for Italian table and Lay's potato chips and Coca-Cola for American table). Soon we moved AIESEC info desk next to my Japanese table so that we can sell AIESEC more effectively. I am glad that it went well, at least for my table.
Masato's rice balls are hazardous
2.) AIESEC 12/60 Award Gala - This is very close to what we call "end of year banquet" at @GT. Giving out awards to our alumni and partners. The entire event was in Romanian so I was challenged to stay awake after a busy day of work, but I managed. Besides, the after party was a ton of fun.
Food!
Cake!
3.) Barbeque - we bbqed. Was awesomely awesome. One dozen of 2-litre Timisoreana. My jacket still smells like bbqed mici. End of story.
4.) Phone call from US - around 7:30 AM on Sunday morning after a great night of bbq, I got a call from Tiffany Curtiss of US. She was apparently at a gathering with other @ers at the time. I think her first question was "do you have a girlfriend yet?" ...oh Tiffany, I guess we never change. She also told me that she may run for MCP position for @US. That means I'll attend @US's Winter National Conference in December where voting for MCP is most likely to take place, to support the most amazing @er I know and my precious friend. Then it means on the 23rd I'll arrive in Atlanta, on the 24th/25th I'll celebrate Christmas with my family, and head to St. Louis on the 26th for the conference and stay there until the new year. That's kinda rough.
5.) GTT's teambuilding - GTT (Galati Trainers Team) had a team building night at my apartment for luck of better place, so I became a part of GTT for one night. We played the "mob" game, and it was great. Definitely something to take home to GT (Georgia Tech).
Right now my dilemma is to decide whether I should attend RTS (a local conference with 2 other LCs mainly for newies) or Romania's biggest national conference, or both. If I attend both I'd have to take about 5 days off from work...decisions, decisions...
I had my first nervous wreck for the first time in a long time today. I was a "guest speaker" at a recruitment event, but I had nothing prepared for it because I didn't know about it until yesterday afternoon. There was no time to prepare, so I just decided to wing it on the spot, which was a bad idea. I was talking too fast, and noticeably stiff. Apparently I wasn't the worst speaker at this event because there was a lady who advocated against internationalism, use of English, and claimed that it's better for students to stay in Romania to learn and promote Romanian culture. I don't know who invited her to the event, but I think that was the last time for her to speak at an AIESEC event, or to attend such an event at all.
I haven't been able to post on this blog lately, mainly because I'm too busy to post anything during work. So here's a brief summary of what happened in the past week.
1.) Global Village - I hosted a table to represent Japan at the global village, which was a part of @12/60. I did have a flag for USA as well but I noticed that I don't have much else to represent America, plus there were American Mormon missionary guys invited to do the job, so I decided to just represent Japan. Everyone seemed to like rice balls and origami pieces that I made. As Vlad said, "we should do this more often to attract girls" (with slightly different wording). I guess people found my table more exotic than the others because the only countries represented there were Romania, Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, USA, and Japan (Hungary and Ukraine are neighboring countries, Italy is almost there, and everyone outside of US knows more about US than the actual US citizens), and others didn't much to offer...only some books and not-so-creative food options (local pizza delivery for Italian table and Lay's potato chips and Coca-Cola for American table). Soon we moved AIESEC info desk next to my Japanese table so that we can sell AIESEC more effectively. I am glad that it went well, at least for my table.
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| From AIESEC 12/60 |
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| From AIESEC 12/60 |
2.) AIESEC 12/60 Award Gala - This is very close to what we call "end of year banquet" at @GT. Giving out awards to our alumni and partners. The entire event was in Romanian so I was challenged to stay awake after a busy day of work, but I managed. Besides, the after party was a ton of fun.
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| From AIESEC 12/60 |
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| From AIESEC 12/60 |
3.) Barbeque - we bbqed. Was awesomely awesome. One dozen of 2-litre Timisoreana. My jacket still smells like bbqed mici. End of story.
4.) Phone call from US - around 7:30 AM on Sunday morning after a great night of bbq, I got a call from Tiffany Curtiss of US. She was apparently at a gathering with other @ers at the time. I think her first question was "do you have a girlfriend yet?" ...oh Tiffany, I guess we never change. She also told me that she may run for MCP position for @US. That means I'll attend @US's Winter National Conference in December where voting for MCP is most likely to take place, to support the most amazing @er I know and my precious friend. Then it means on the 23rd I'll arrive in Atlanta, on the 24th/25th I'll celebrate Christmas with my family, and head to St. Louis on the 26th for the conference and stay there until the new year. That's kinda rough.
5.) GTT's teambuilding - GTT (Galati Trainers Team) had a team building night at my apartment for luck of better place, so I became a part of GTT for one night. We played the "mob" game, and it was great. Definitely something to take home to GT (Georgia Tech).
Right now my dilemma is to decide whether I should attend RTS (a local conference with 2 other LCs mainly for newies) or Romania's biggest national conference, or both. If I attend both I'd have to take about 5 days off from work...decisions, decisions...
posted by Masato at
9:26 PM
4 Comments:
(1) Learn everything you can from the GTT. That's something we should be doing at Tech (having a dedicated trainer team) and is generally awesome.
(2) Don't sweat messing up the presentation; we all screw up some times. I mean who can forget "imagine you're on a plane..."
(3) Go to both conferences, obviously. :D
(1) So we are going for GTTT? Awesome.
(2) "Imgaine you're on a plane" presentation is something that we can laugh about now. Maybe I should mess up more so that we can laugh more later.
(3) I'll try my best!
you should totally go to both conferences but if you have to choose go for the national conference! I thought about applying as a faci there but I cant make it that week :( Any plans about coming to Germany and Holland yet? We have a local conference here on the weekend of 5-6 December and I could very possibly get you some kind of position in there!
actually it's a regional conference... my bad
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