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March 25 Life in 2007It has been a long time since I wanted to initiate my
experience in the blog's world. I tried it last year with an msn space
but eventually I gave it up. One of my New Year's resolutions is to
start and maintain my blog. Now I will go through this year experience, it has been already three months and it is a lot happening in my life and around it. I feel so lucky, happy and complete these days, so many things had changed and I had the chance to discover a lot more about myself. January: I spent New Year's in Mexico with my parents, it was so good to see them again and refresh the sense of having someone unconditionally in my life, I told them that I was feeling like continuing my AIESEC experience in Puerto Rico and that I was going to run for MCP next year, fortunately I got their support. February: We passed through all the election process, the national plenary voted and I was elected MCP of this beautiful country! Along with this, two people in my team were elected, my MCVP Finances, Julimar and Rene MCVP ER. It is a great feeling to have a year ahead and I can't wait to start doing things. We are still searching for the fourth person that will complete our team... It was the 14th of February, here in Puerto Rico (as in Mexico and some other countries) that means Valentine's day, chocolates, balloons and a whole display of love. I was starting my journey to Cairo, I passed that day in SJU airport, while thinking a lot about my role as an MCP of a foreign country, I realized that I was Puerto Rican already, that I decided to stand for MCP because I believe in this country, its people and its potential. While I was in the plane to NYC I was thinking I was so proud to be representing my AIESEC country. I was in NYC airport for a while trying to check in my bags with Puerto Rican rum. Then I headed to Amsterdam, I love Schipol airport!!! I've always liked airports and train stations a lot but I believe this one is the most friendly airport I've been to. It has a place where you can just lay down and sleep, easy internet access, I like the ads very much and it has a whole shopping mall outside and you can connect to the city with the train easily. Besides that I was so lucky to meet Rita in Amsterdam, she took me to drink this fabulous chocolate with wiped cream and took me to see the city a bit. I remember that I was in Amsterdam like four years ago but it was very different, I liked the city very much, I might consider living there in a future, if it just wasn't for my incapacity of riding a bike... Well, I haven't even started the conference yet and I had a lot to tell already. After "I don't know how many hours" from AMS to CAI I arrived to beautiful Egypt at 4 a.m., my luggage was lost and I met some AIESECers from Ireland, Japan and Brazil at the airport. My luggage was recovered after four days, and in the meantime I was suffering big time and wearing borrowed clothes. The conference in Egypt was just AWESOME, everything, where can I start? the atmosphere of the country was kind of turbulent in a good way, like the big red sun and the air, the mosques praying in the speakers, the fruits in the corners. It was so easy to find someone smoking shisha outside their house, people was so friendly and happy, they drive like hell (worse than in Mexico city) it seems that there are not traffic rules at all. The CC team was so caring, they just worried about you and were always ready to help. Specially I remember them taking me shopping for clothes (since my luggage was still lost) and telling me about their AIESEC projects, they had been in AIESEC for three weeks or so and they were so excited about their experience, these kind of things for me are valuable, sometimes we forget when we were new members and they were in that precise moment to remind me about that excitement, that it is not just about processes, strategies, implementation but about people. This journey in Egypt was one of discoveries and of asking the right questions... During the formal dinner in IPM I was asked this question that shocked me. Someone asked me: What do you miss from home? Actually I realized that what I had been missing in Puerto Rico I didn't miss it anymore, that I had everything I needed with me and ahead. That question made me think a lot and I just realized that from that moment on I had with me everything I needed. I let go some things that I was trying to keep even if it was not right. In that moment I felt complete. March: I came back to Puerto Rico on the 1st of March. I didn't see the pyramids in Egypt but I don't regret it, why? because somehow I know that at some point in my life I will be living near Africa and the Middle East and I will have the chance to go and visit the Egyptian pyramids, ride a camel and sleep under the stars in the desert. After my 2-days flight CAI-AMS-JFK-SJU I arrived back home and I felt weird, it was weird to adapt again to the normal life after such an intense experience, it felt weird to go back to work 9 to 5 and just work... I had all the energy to change the world in that very moment, I was willing to apply everything and do something about it. Now I feel better here, I adjusted myself to work again and to the AIESEC life, I still have all the excitement and everything, and I feel I have all the energy to do things here, I feel like so many things are coming and we have to be ready for them. Ok, too much reflexion for now... happy facts about these days:
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