Giovanni's life out there

Thursday, November 22, 2007

ECUADOR RELOADED

cannot hide my excitement
enough talking and complaining about how much I miss Ecuador, Tania and my whole time and life there. I decided to take a pro-active approach and got myself a ticket for the semester break!!

Amigos, monos, cholos, cerranos, pulpos y todos preparanse!! A partir del 11 hasta el 27 de enero estare con ustedes queridos Ecuatorianos!!
Voy a llevar el trago para la resurreccion de la FARRA DE ABSINTH, no se preocupen

estoy escuchando musica latina extranando de bailar el ritmo de regueton - pero no falta mucho...

NO LO PUEDO ESPERAR – MI ALEGRIA ES SUPER Q ALTA – LOS VEO PRONTO!!


Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Suited in the lovely Swiss mountains I attended the first AIESEC conference since I’m back

DO-IT 2007 in Fiesch

Although a MC term abroad officially doesn’t count as eXchange I assisted the returnees track on Saturday and Sunday. Talking with people who have lived abroad for quite a while as well and recently came back did really well to me. Sharing the experiences and although not getting concrete solutions just feeling better due to the fact of not being alone with the issues that I faced on my return. That was really nice and helped me I guess.


But overall the conference didn’t help me overcoming my great miss of my time in Ecuador – actually it worsted it!

The main reasons for that:

Not a single day passes on which I don’t think about my beautiful yet so different life in Ecuador but talking so much about it made me even remember and therefore miss it more…

Last and most importantly, the general culture of AIESEC in Switzerland – it’s not the same! In comparison to an Ecuadorian conference there were no roll-calls, no icebreakers, and no punishments – NOTHING! I guess that has always been this way here but after having lived the Latin passion I just missed it, missed these kind of activities so so much!

It's not the same I know I know...
But I'm not the same anymore, either...

see, I've got 5 years in AIESEC but it’s been the first time that I came home after a conference, put some AIESEC music and danced, just for myself!



Te extrano my Ecuador – te adagrezco todo lo q me diste, la mejor experiencia de mi vida – y te lo ojuro q voy a volver – o sea lo mas pronto posible!

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Night of the Jumps






This is the kind of crazy jumps I got to see yesterday at the Ramp to Ramp event in Zurich. Barbara surprised me with tickets for this event, which was amazing, worldclass crazy stuff that kicked so much and was absolutely a spectacular to watch

the video is not so great but gives you an impression