UBS Growth Network Excellence Award for AIESEC in Morocco!

This is the only pic that I have with our amazing Award. As soon as I get them more I will upload them on picasa (so far there are about 20 pictures from the dinner when we received it).

It's an Award for whole year for overall growth and development of AIESEC in Morocco.

Extremely proud!!!!!!

"Yes, I'm ready to jump"

So today it's over! After 13 hectic, inspiring, motivating, challenging days, the 59th AIESEC International Congress is finished. I always feel sort of bad and nostalgic at the end of each amazing conference. The more incredible it is the harder for me it is to get back to "normal" life. And now imagine incredibility of an almost 2 weeks conference extremely well prepared by experienced AIESECers and representatives of various global companies or organizations. Add amazing and intelligent people from 100 countries, talking to them, getting to know them, being inspired.

It's not easy to go back home. Will Morocco seem for the first time a boring place? If yes (probably), I hope that only for a short while...



But, let's look at the future!
It's time for achievements, it's time for putting all your thoughts, inspirations into actions. It's time for hard working, for inspiring people, for driving change and making it happen. It's time to start making impact and showing others opportunities.



It's also time (still a few months) to think about my future. No sorry, no thinking. I know what to do! Now, it's time to start taking steps to achieve it. Start, shaping things in my mind and then in reality, start talking to people who can help you in achieving things and inspiring you. Set a plan and then successfully realize it!


trip to Macedonia in winter 2008? I'll do my best to be there!

rain!

Today, it was raining in Istanbul! It had been the first rain I saw since I left Poland! How weird! More than 3 months of rainless sky! After coming back to Morocco probably I won't see rain for long time since it usually rains only in winter!

I just wanted to share with you this stupid thing :) end of the post.

losing my Polish?

I'm losing my Polish! That's the fact. Hearing English, French and Arabic all the time must have had this influence!

But from the beginning...

August 15th, Mohammed V Airport, Casablanca. We are standing in the queue to do the check in. I'm holding my passport and suddenly one of my team mates is asking me to show it to him. Then he wants to know which of the three words on the cover is Polish (paszport, passport or passeport). With no hesitation I'm telling him that the first one. Then he is trying to read it. Unsuccessfully - he doesn't know Polish "sz" (in English pronounced as "sh"). So, I'm reading him - "paszport" (in English it would sound "pashport"). Then I'm realizing - no! it's not Polish, it sounds too weird. I'm looking again at the cover of paszport/passport/passeport and trying to figure out which word is Polish. After a while I'm finally reminding that indeed it is the first word "paszport". But it took me some time to recall it from my memory... Then I'm reading it again and realizing that it sounds so stupid with this "sz/sh". (sorry for Polish - brzmi to dla mnie jak slowo maszlo zamiast maslo:)

Still 10 months to leave Morocco. Will I be able to speak Polish in June? :)

The Opening Day of International Congress 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey!

It was an amazing day! The IC officially started at 21st of August called Day 0.

Have a look at the pics from:
The Opening Plenary!
The Global Village!
The Opening Ceremony!

4 new albums with more than 200 pics are uploaded!

Enjoy it!

enjoying International Congress!

It's really great to be here! I don't know how to express that!

Meeting old friends from Poland - speaking Polish with them and having all these funny conversations that even most Polish people wouldn't understand at all. Not only fun but also talking about what happens in our lives currently or what are our plans for the future. Challenging dialogues! Sharing experiences of being a member of another AIESEC country!

Meeting good friends from other countries - talking to them and feeling happy to see them again.

Meeting new people and establishing new relations! Having interesting discussions and again talking about presence and future! Sharing ideas and getting new ones from those who have different perspective.

Interacting with companies, AIESEC partners and sponsors - looking for those who can supply you with your professional future. Hearing from them that AIESEC is such an amazing organization and they envy us our AIESEC Experiences!

Exploring and discovering new cultures - more than 100 of them here at the same place at the same time!

And last but not the least - learning new things, getting ideas how you want to use certain things in terms of your professional role. Challenging yourself and learning from others as much as possible!

Although there are things that really piss me off, God bless the day when I joined this Organization and any other day that has made me be where I'm currently! And still there is a lot to be discovered and achieved! And I do hope it will be achieved!

May these networks last forever!

first impressions of Turkey

Of course, first impressions are nice but to be honest I still like Morocco more than Turkey. My Morocco is more beautiful ;)

Today, we finished the second day of Study Tour (sightseeing Istanbul) and obviously I made a lot of pictures. See 12 new albums in picasa. Istanbul is amazing.

And tommorow, we (me and 600 other AIESEC people from more than 100 countries) are starting International Congress. I'm so excited! More than I was before coming here. Excitment is growing!

I'll write more soon!

Kamil in Turkey

Dear and faithful readers,

Probably most of you know (I mentioned it a few times in previous posts) that soon I'm going to Turkey for AIESEC International Congress. Soon actually means tommorow morning :) I'll be there for almost 3 weeks (back in Morocco on September, 2nd).

I will have limited access to Internet so don't expect too many posts (probably no posts at all). I'll try to upload pictures on a regular basis though so feel free to visit my picasa web page.

See you !! :)