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Sunday, April 27, 2008

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Walking around Skopje


I should have write about this about a month ago… anyway, here it is:

It felt so AIESECy walking around Skopje, especially in the company of Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Peruvian, a Serbian, a Bosnian, a Mexican, a British, and an Indian... of course it was after IPM, so no wonder such a diverse group.

We didn't actually have a plan. We started walking and we ended up going some ruins of what seeming to be a Fort. Later I found out it was Tvrdina Kale.

Kale fortress is situated on a hill in the middle of Skopje and dominates this whole portion of the Vardar valley. Archaeological excavations has revealed traces of habitation from the late neolithic and early bronze ages.

Walking around the Fort, I couldn't help but thinking: how such a young nation (only 15 years old) can have such a vast history. I was also wondering why I don't know in deep the history of my country? Shame on my educational system? No. A friend once told me: never let your educational system keep you from learning.

After that pleasant walk, we went to have lunch, something very typical of Macedonia, but I don't remember the names, I only know it has been the only time I've tasted white beans and actually liked them.

After lunch, part of the group head to the airport and the Brazilian, Portuguese, Peruvian, Serbian, Bosnian and I decided to take a "religious tour" we went to an Orthodox Church, actually to two of them. Then we went to a Mosque, and we finalize our trip going to a Catholic church. We actually looked for a synagogue but we didn't find one =(.

Seeing the differences… just made me be sure that I'm happy with what I believe in.

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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

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Mayu-1

Last February, when I was in FYRO Macedonia, I met Carlos, a Colombian AIESECer who is doing his internship at HSBC London. He told me that in January he met a guy form HSBC in El Salvador, who was the President of the Bank. I jumped immediately and I told him that guy you met is a very important person in the bank, but is not the president, the President is a woman, her name is María Eugenia Brizuela de Ávila and besides my mom is the woman I admire the most in El Salvador.

Of course at that moment I didn't know that she was no longer the CEO of the bank. When I came back to El Salvador, I did some research and I was shocked when I learned that Carlos had been right, she was no longer the CEO! This man that Carlos described, who is a highly recognized in El Salvador, had replaced her.

I felt relieved when I found out that she had moved on to a more important role =D. Good for her, I am very happy, I admire this woman so much. Not only because she's smart, but also because she is very pretty, and not artificially beautiful, naturally beautiful.

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Saturday, April 05, 2008

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The momments that make my life

Sometimes you wonder what do you need to be happy; I've wondered that manytimes. Being in AIESEC I wonder if making more exchanges will make me happy;being at the university I wonder if getting an A or a 10 will make me happy.But honestly, when we think about it, happiness comes from moments in whichyou shared something, at least for me it is like this.
One of these moments happened we whet to have dinner: my brother, his son,my sister, my brother in law, my other sister, my cousin with her husbandand her two kids, my other cousin and her husband with their two kids aswell, my aunt, her son, my mother, my father and I to a Japanese restaurant,we had to take two tables (the tables were already big) so we could all fit,but not even with that (we didn't feet) but sharing that meal with myfamily... those are the moments that make my life =D.

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New Job... New Life?

Yes I have a new job! It is amazing, it is challenging, it has it's darkside and some details that I hate as any other job. But in general, I have the chance to make a huge impact in the whole organization... doesn't this phrase sound AIESECy? Well, it does, but my new job is not in AIESEC. Anyway, this is another thing that I learned in AIESEC, to seek for the impact that I am making, to seek for meaning in my job. It has meaning!!!. I am happy. My life hasn't change that much... well I am becoming corporate...hahahaha... it will change thought. One of the parts that I dislike is that cannot talk so much about what I've learned without mentioning the amount of countries I've been to, and people focus more on the trip than on the learning, and some people think I am just showing off saying all this, but honestly I am not, another AIESECer wouldn't be surprised if I say that I've been to more than 20 countries. Would they? Ok, enough with the AIESEC crisis, yes I am having a crisis, it's hardhard leaving it.... damn.
AIESEC is soon to be over?
Is it?

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