One months in paradise - only 11 to go...

Hello again...

I just came back from my MC weekend with my team and I must say: I loved it. I have a excellent team of three people. We had a lot of fun.

It’s been amazing to see my two girls plan, feedback each other and me, do Ice-breakers, all on their own. They might not have the deepest knowledge on AIESEC, but they cover for that with a relentless enthusiasm and a huge commitment. It has been truly inspiring to see them work.

I know that a team of three people is very small to run an MC for a whole country. That’s why we have an equally motivated NST that takes care of Talent Management and Finance.

My life in El Salvador is amazing. I still don’t own a bed, but I have two new families… It’s amazing how everybody here treats me like I have been living here all my life. There are huge differences in the way of thinking between Salvadorians and me, but in the end we all agree that we want to have fun. A guy actually asked me how long I was here, to which I answered one month. He answered me: “Oh, I thought you were here for longer, the way you interact with these people. So you came here before?” My answer was of course no. He said that he was amazed…

In the little free time that I have (which is virtually no free time at all) I’m reading this amazing book by Stephen King “On writing”… Whoever wants to bring something to paper, this book is worth gold for you… and it’s extremely amusing…

My other project, my bachelor thesis is not advancing at the speed I would like it to… so I’ll have to focus on that now for the next two weeks… It’s like writing a story and I should be able to write a good one…

Another thing is that I have a very interesting experience here in El Salvador. It involves driving… when I came here my friends were like: Do you think that you’ll be able to drive here in El Salvador, because it’s loco… and I was like: of course I can… So they started letting me drive with the result that I had to name a complaint department that ignores all the complaints dutifully… I dubbed myself the most reckless driver in El Salvador…

This is the first week of execution for AIESEC in El Salvador… let’s make it a good one…

Cheerio

Stefan