How cool is that

Wow, what an experience so far.
The study tour in Krakow was amazing - such a wonderful city, really beautiful, I just loved it. We´ve seen the famous market place, some great churches and castles, went to Auschwitz and visited the home town of the Pope. It was so great! WE LOVE THE OC - WE DO ;-)

now the pre-meeting of IC has just started. Eating lunch I just thought that I´e definitely never been at a place where so many people from so many different countries have been together! It´s so great!! Catching up with old friends from our network, hugging, screeming (well, more to tease the girls), jumping and shoulder clapping... it´s just great.
And of course exchanging realities, getting to know new people and everything - what an experience.
The site is just huge but wonderful...
Will go to the party now. Just wanted to let you know that I´m doing fine - and I´d love you were here too!!!

IC HERE I COME

In the last few days I just worked my ass off in order to get everything done that I had/wanted to finish before I'm heading off to Poland - with succes, I managed it!!
The motivation was so damn high, I'm telling you, cause I'm soooo much looking forward to IC - which I guess everyone understands!
The ones who are not going, don't be jealous - be happy for the ones who do - and we will think about you - promised!!

Tomorrow I'm off - Guayaquil - Madrid - Amsterdam - Warsow. A trip of a total of 13 hours.
From the 18th to the 22nd Chiripa (my MC team mate) and me will join the Study Tour in Krakow. 22nd, 23rd is SSGN (Spanish Speaking Growh Network) Pre-meeting. And the great event starts finally at the 24th of August. 10 incredible days of conference, sessions, learning cyrcels, connection time, talks, parties, meeting friends, making friends... what am I saying??!! - just 10 days of the greatest AIESEC Conference there is. And I will be there - jipeee!
Afterwards we have 3 days in Warsow to explore the city before I fly back to Ecuador at the 6th of September where a lot of work is going to wait for me. And I will be full - full of motivation, engery, ideas, inputs, outputs and put puts :-)

Thanx for your understanding about the fact that I won't be able to update my blog regularly until my return to Ecuador on the 7th of September.
LOVE

reuion de area

onglaublech was so abgod - u wie extrem das mer do woerkli am schaffe send. setem Dontschti so zemli non-stop dra. hed agfange met MC meeting bes am obe, am fritig d konfereaenz bespraeche, de ablauf, koordination, magia u alles... denn no die persoenlech vorbereitig u am samschtig morge esch denn aendli losgange! ond das met NOME 30min verspoetig. mein das ned zuenisch oder gar so, voll im aernscht. fendi super eschs ned meh xi aecht!
naja, problematisch esch d management vo de agenda denn au erscht worde womer anschtatt 1h 2h metagspause gmacht haend wel mer id stadt haend moesse laufe wel a de uni alles zue gha hed. no pasa nada seid mer sech denn hie, brengid mer die session womer hoet ned gschafft haend morn ondere. hmm, ponkt esch xi dasi nochem nachtaesse en krisesetzig metem LC woni coach be ha gha well aecht vel schief lauft u d kommunikation eifach ned fonktioniert. send denn au so chorz vor metternacht aendlech ad fiesta cho woni bes am 3 gfiret ha.
obwohl i gwoesst ha das mer ned werdid poenktlech afo hammi am sonntig ufkaempft u be oeberpoenktlech ded xi. wel wen ech ufgebe met em value vo punctualidad z laebe denn werd sech nie oebis aendere. semer lideres u muend met guetem bischbel vorusgo - no matter what. ech persoenlech woerd das im andere fall aus eigets resigniere u ufgaeh empfende - u das beni definitiv ned. naja, haend denn jo legschteanedes met 1.5h verspoetig afgfange...

ech be aber aecht huere z frede wien ech mis PD area meeting gmanaged ha. s erschte mol sogar en ppt wo uf aenglisch esch xe uf spanisch moendlech oersetzt (esch vell schweriger aus eifach spanisch rede oder metere spanisch ppt)
d luet haend motiviert gschaffet u metenand haemmer en coole output erzielt.

jetzt beni eifach huere im seich metem vorbereite. ha no so brutal vell z tue vorem IC!
aber ech freu mi jo so extrem!!!
cha jo mis schlofmanko im flueger ufhole ;-)

Fight for your right

Kind of crazy what happened yesterday...
I was working in ESPOL (the university where the MC office is located) in the computer lab (due to bad infrastrusture and low internet connection in our office).
At about 12 o'clock a guy started talking loudly in the lab and I was like, please, shut up, I'm trying to work... Till I noticed that it was a teacher...!
Well so I thought it's better if I shut up and just pretent to be a student and follow him... Hehehe, I don't know if he doesn't know his students or if he didn't mind having me in his class. In the end it didn't matter cause I could stay. Till the information came through that the grandmother of the director died. Here in Ecuador it's not just a, well I'm sorry and the person can of course go home to his family. No, the WHOLE UNIVERSITY GOT OFF!
All the classes for the day got cancelled! Imagine...
So I had to leave the lab because they were closing. On the bus stop there were unusual few people. I waited about 20 min for a bus which then took me just to the end of the campus where I had to get off instead of being able to keep sitting, waiting others to board the bus and then leaving downtown. No, I had to get off, which I really didn't. Cause that was the reason why further up on the campus were no people - cause everybody was down here at the final station in a HUGE LINE!!! I don't know, 300 to 500 people queing!!!
¡Chucha! I thought, I'm not gonna line up after waiting for so long up there for the bus. Furthermore I have a MC meeting at the other university...
Then the horror begun... EVERYBODY, people standing in the line, the ones that were pushing themselves forward and my group of the ones who had to leave and re-enter the bus started to fight for the little entrance of the bus. Of course it was withouth yelling, biting, hitting and kicking - but it was aweful...!! at the same time kind of funny though to me. Latest when I made it in the bus ;-)
I fought for my right...

and of course asked myself a lot of questions afterwards.
1st why does the whole uni get off if a familymember of a director or whatever high person dies?
--> custom here, I've got answered later
2nd why does the administration of the uni not organise more busdrivers? cause at the parkinglot were a lot of school buses (ESPOL buses)?
--> ¿organizational skills, flexibility? I don't know
3rd why do people not just sit back and relax if they get a day off?? Otherwise everybody who was waiting for a bus at this point of time would have had some more hours at the uni. So where is the rush?
(I had a meeting to attend - because it got shifted due to the death of the directors mother from ESPOL to Catolica)

I remember that everybody run home when our highschool was short before getting blowed up and just us organized a beer and waited outside for the Alpequai to explode.

4th why do I have so many questions when everybody else doesn't mind about nothing?!

ok stop, otherwise I'll loose myself
and I don't want that to happen now!!

so, chill and relax guys
enjoy every moment to it's full

skyline of guayaquil

before I was sitting in the bus and watching the wonderful skyline of guayaquil
when I kind of realized that I'm in 3 different lives here
one is my work, the other one is my private life here and last but not least I have my life at home
why is that?!
well, work is totally different, my experience with the latin culture is quite different when it comes down to professional issues. that is as well because my perspective changes. from a professional point of view I see a lot of things differently then I look at them in my spare time. Well, here we get back to the word of responsability. And I'd like to share this with the statement of a friend over here that clearly states the difference between work and life beside work. He is a trainee from Italy. A really cool guy that it's great having parties with (yes Tommaso I'm speaking about you). And that's pretty much how he knows me since all he's seen from me so far was when I was out of AIESEC. So he came to the @XP Simulation as well, just as a party delegate. And what he's saying about how he experienced me there was a different gio. "Really strict and formal" are his words. Well, I call it just responsability. To me it's kind of clear that I'm different cause I had a certain role as coordinator/facilitator.
Of course I party in another style once I don't have this responsability. In my opinion nothing more then correct. But a lot of people kind of don't look at this the same way I do... Well, it's not the first time and it won't be the last one... ;-)

I'd just love to upload a picture about how the skyline looked like just before. A light blue with the orange, red after the sunset and the moon shining white up on the sky... It looked so lovely, so peaceful and calm. When I thought about the fact that I'd just love to share this moment with all of you out there I realized that I have more then just my life here.
Cause I have YOU - I carry you in my heart.
PEACE OUT

updates from my side

wow wow wow
long time ago, I know. Feel myself like that. But this is kind of my life here. There is soooo much going on that I sometimes don't even find the time to update my blog.
But I will give a short rap up about what happened since the last post.

Last Saturday I actually wanted to study spanish (as I'm telling that to myself for quite a while) but what can you do when your friends call you up inviting you to go for a swim in a swimming pool on a bloody hot and wonderful sunny day... sure I'm up for it and change my plans! Check it out in the pictures part how great it was...

On Sunday evening we finally went to the Funpark that I was talking about for such a long time. Was pretty fun! Of course not as thrilling as Bungee Jumping but fair enough. I enjoyed.

Well, then the busy and pretty freaked out week started. With lots - with tons of work! Monday evening I went shopping.

Tuesday, 1st of August! SWISS NATIONAL DAY
I went to the family of Felix (another Swiss guy). The just arrived last week and still has everything from back home. So we enjoyed Fondue and vine. The girls in the family had the table really nicly prepared with lots of little swiss stuff and our flag all over the table! Was a really cousy feeling. After the Fondue we showed the people there a ppt about CH and explained a lot about our culture and system. Doing so and listening to Swiss Music gave me a really special feeling! After all of that we came to the ecuadorian part and danced till late to Salsa ;-)
It was an awesome and really cousy evening that I enjoyed a lot!

Wednesday was the birthday of Luigi! We ate a wonderful dinner cooked by Tatiana and celebrateded a great party! As all the parties rock at Roxi's place :-)

Thursday I finally studied - like 1 hour and then I fall asleep - guess I had to pay for all my partying during the week...
Well and yesterday, Friday Suzan made my day by calling me up! Thank you very much again! Was a big pleasure! In the evening I was just up for a lazy chilling out and watching a movie.
Today I finished a lot of undone duties, yes, I work even on weekends for my passion... ;-)

But tonight I will be on the road again!
So, I'm off guys.
click here to see the pics
ENJOY - genauso wien ech das mache!