Party parallels (if any)

During my first AIESEC party in HK I realized so many differences from the CEE and especially Czech/Slovak parties, that I simply had to write down the main points and create a comparison. It goes like this:

- 22.00: party time, Czech Republic: no delegates, OC is finishing the preparations, looking for the loudspeakers, they keep waiting for one hour before first guys actually arrive
- 22.00: party time, Hong Kong: delegates are queueing for the presents they were promised to get for arriving on time, everybody is ready to party, people start entertaining themselves very decently and in an organized way

-2 hours later, CR: everybody had at least 4 beers, most delegates are pretty wasted, advanced dirty dancing lessons have started on the (dance) floor
- 2 hours later, HK: delegates wearing the party theme high-school uniforms have performed several AIESEC dances and just start playing games with a skipping rope, a boat -race with milk follows...and when the time is up, they go back to the session "Connection time" (no worries, they´ve left the ropes in the party room-ar :-)).

First working day

I have spent my first working day as "the jet lag individual" and I did everything not to lose the credit. Slow reactions, yawning all the time and one of the highest positions in the randomness ranking we decided to create. Everybody was so random we just had to give the individuals points for their contribution to activating and sustaining randomness in the room. I turned out to be a good representative of my country, ending up on the 4th place after Ukraine, Malaysia and Hong Kong :-). I tried to capture the loveliest moments by writing down the most memorable things my competitors said:

JSo: „Nadya, your eyes are so random!“

Nadya to Pui: „I have a feeling it´s gonna stay small.“(about some PPT stuff)
Pui (in reply): „Keep the feeling inside...“

Nadya: „I´m useful!“

SNCF: the Star Conference

It is very good to attend an AIESEC conference after an 18 hours´ trip on coach followed by 7 hours of waiting for your flight and a 12 hours long night flight to a time zone that is 6 hours in advance compared to yours. It makes your jet lag even jetter and even lagger. Your dizziness appears as introversion, you are a lame delegate, always sleeping in the sessions but so awake during the evening parties! Conference also makes you exposed to almost a hundred people and your brain gets stretched...manages orientation in a huuuuge campus, a totally unknown language and characters, sooo many people with sooo many faces and even more names :-)). You can feel your neurons dying but have to motivate the rest to create new synapses. It makes your English weak like never before and your sentences full of total blackouts (eh...what´s that word...drink!). It also makes you know a bunch of people from diverse LCs, find that the level of knowledge of fresh EB members is just above your expectations, and most of all, finally see real people under the labels HKBU, HKUST, CUHK, PolyU, Lingnan and HKU. Which makes your work in the MC afterwards more meaningful and motivates you. And makes you wanna stay in the campus among the delegates if you´re about to leave cause you´ll never see them ALL together again. Good start :-)).

How it begun

There has been an attempt from my side to get to Hong Kong some time ago...since then I kept in touch with the Hong Kong AIESEC people and it paid off well :-)) cause after ITC in Romania, where I met another bunch of Hong Kong guys (including Nadya from Ukraine), things started speeding up. One day after I arrived home from Bucharest I received some chat messages from 3 MC guys and it seemed interesting - they wanted me to come to Hong Kong for the summer as MC CEED! WOW! In fact, my plans for summer had been: International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary, a week off somewhere in Croatia with a friend from high school, AI TOP in Rotterdam, random holiday trip with Doban and finding my way to IC in Turkey - just anyhow!!! All these plans are nothing compared to the opportunity to spend whole 3 months in a part of the world I had never visited before, to learn how to live and work in a completely different environment and to finally get some bloody international experience out of AIESEC cause I´ve been working for this organization since 2003!!! So everything went more or less smoothly, I´ve been here for more than 1 month and don´t regret giving up any of the original plans...at least not much...well, regret a bit but don´t tell anybody :-)).

Hello my friends!

So finally, after some teasing, I started blogging in English. Wow, this is not going to be easy for me since I have shared so much already in my mother tongue at peiqi007.blogspot.com and it´s so strange to get back to the things to re-write them in English for a probably very different kind of readers :-). Anyway, I´ll do my best to keep you up-to-date and hope that you are going to enjoy the English version as much as the Czech one :-)).