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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Reach for the sky! EuroCo 2006!

Wow! What a conference! Around 170 LCPs mainly from Europe spent unforgetable time in our beautiful country on Ohrid lake in Hotel Biser!

I attended the whole conference and this is how it was.. The whole journey started in Skopje with the Global Village in Ramstore. You know how Global Village looks like! More then 40 countries representing their culture, wearing different clothes, dancing @ dances and having a lots of fun! Total blast! After the GV, sightseeing of the capital city followed accompanied by our LC Skopje members! Thank you LC Skopje! The end part of the day where we officially opened EuroCo took place in the National Theathre. Folk dances, speech from Skopje mayor, modern drum performances were some of the highlights of the opening. After sitting in chairs for more then one hour, enjoying the show, the participants (@ and externals) could refresh themselves with the cocktail supported from Skopje Brewery, Krasnaja (Cocktails) and Tikves vine. After this exciting day, we departured to Hotel Biser.

We arrived in the middle of the night and only glimps of the beautufil lake could be seen. Everyone was very anxious for the beauty of the day to arise and start with the morning plenary..

And then, the morning... The sun was in its full power and the morning plenary started.. Crazy shouts, creative dances, Swiss people naked and Danish people signing about Macedonia and EuroCo. Denmark, thank you for the song! Our beloved LCP had a great rollcall, reflecting the "Struga Poetry night" - K15 version! :)

I was very excited being there and spend time with my LCPs, seeing them having fun, challenge them on our delegation meeting, laughing together about funny stories during the day, have discussions on the lunches and dinners (breakfast was hard to talk:) and it was just awesome!

The whole agenda was well structured, my LCPs were learning a lot, the facilitators were simply amazing! The fun team was the funniest! So many MCPs in the faci team, all of them my friends, I was filling very proud that all this is happening in our country!
The best and crazy OC, lead by Darko was always smiling, having fun, fully participating on the parties!

The days were passing, the positive energy was in the air, the beauty of the lake was in its full power, the faci's were having great sessions every day, the hotel stuff was the most pleasent stuff ever, the OC was crazy as always and all this lead for unforgetable experience for everyone involved!

At the end, on behalf of @ Mace I would like to thank everyone that had anykind of contribution to this great success and again confirmed our globally known brand - "The land of success", followed by "The land of eternal sunshine"!


posted by Toni @ 11:08 AM 0 comments  

Saturday, October 14, 2006

life of MC apartment's inhabitants.

Dear readers,


Welcome to the interesting side of our lives... living in the MC flat!!


Currently, there are three inhabitants in the MC Flat, all the international members of the national team: Ravin from India, Maja from Poland and Titel from Romania.
Honestly, words can not express what it is like to live here.

For starters...

Maja has learnt to keep herself from being a cleaning freak. Also, she has learnt to pronounce '3' as th-ree and not f-ree and 'with' as wi-th and not wi-f.

Titel has had the opportunity to challenge his world-view(read culinary) and to discover & develop his immense cooking potential. Right now, he is working on nurturing and retaining his top talent. In simplar words, the boy has finally started cooking and over the last two weeks we have been relishing some romanion delicacies.

Ravin has gradually learnt cooking over the last 6 months or so. Today, the MC team can handle(almost) as much spice as him. He is especially enjoying improvizing, in simplar words, using his masala mixes to spice up the food and make it yummy ... slurp! :P

Apart from this, we, the inhabitants have invented a really cool drinking game... 'Puke' (I know that the name ain't that cool)

Latest NEWS: While I have been busy writing this post, titel was up with the customary Saturday cleaning. To keep the long story short, If you happen to visit our apartment and it smells like 'shit' don't worry it is wood-polish (A very old one from the pre-stone age times)

posted by rAV!n @ 5:33 AM 0 comments  

@Mace in October

Since IC many things had happen in AIESEC Mace.

I am not sure if I'm able to list all of them right now, but here are the main points:

  • Recruitment has already started! We are after promotion period, Info Meetings took place and we are getting ready for Local Training Center and LC/ Buddy meetings.
  • EuroCo starts tomorrow. Facilitators are in Skopje, delegates are arriving since yesterday. Monday we will have Global Village, then Official Opening, then, in the evening, delegates are going to Struga.
  • NST is complete. Titel from Romania finally arrived, and he became another inhabitant of MC flat. With his help we will have @Mace website, community and... no viruses in MC computers =)
  • Official first LC visits took place. I was in Ohrid, our NST: Iva and Titel were in Prilep, Ravin starts his visit today in Skopje. Apart from that we took some steps to open extensions in Tetovo and Kumanovo.
  • MOSEM 2006 preparations already started. International and national facis are already selected. We have awsome chair from Egypt (AI PDU member =), great OC team from Ohrid and MOSEM 2006 community. Join it and you will learn more about the Seminar!
  • First Mentors meeting after the holiday took place. Right now we are sharing our network of contacts, so I can introduce more Alumni to our Program. And apart from that, we can create a great Alumni Database!
  • Board of Advisors was created! The BoA members will be officially introduced on MOSEM, but the first meeting already took place, and the cooperation is already having some leverages!
  • AIESEC office in the Chamber of Commerce will start working not later than in one month! We are waiting for the technical eguipment, and when it arrives, we will be able to move in the new ofice! Hope it's gonna be ready before MOSEM Faci premeeting...
  • New Learning Planner will be lounched in couple of days. This year Learning Planner will really support planning of our learning, not only planing our daily tasks!
  • Ravin was selected to Faci team for the conference in Serbia. Congratz Ravin!
  • Chopo goes global! First he was facilitating the CEE conference in Budapest, now he is going to Serbia! Go Chopo! Go Chopo!

posted by Majkus @ 4:30 AM 1 comments