USA and Greece and UK

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We (AIESEC Oradea) recently won a grant and going to participate at some event (I didn't quite get what it is about).
But anyways, we had to preapre some stuff for it... such as - indicating the international charachteristic of AIESEC - posters of different countries. Since not too many members have dealt with DTP before, my time had come to prove my designing abilities :))

Here is what I came up with:
You can comment :))

We have 15 countries, and their flags will be made also, and some other things bought. Kind of a little Global Village.

But the thing I wanted to say: I chose the pictures based on how I percieve these countries (I also made UK, China, USA and Greece).
I showed them to Pepez and Pike. My other finnish friends... do you think there is something missing?

I'm waiting for suggestions...

Other sad news from home...

"Mancs" died on sunday...
He was member of the Spider Special Rescue Team in Miskolc. Gained international recognition when saving a little girl's life after an earthquake in Turkey couple years ago.

Vasárnap elpusztult Mancs, a mentőkutya. A németjuhász számos hazai és külföldi katasztrófánál segített embereket menteni, és nemzetközi hírnevet szerzett, amikor egy törökországi földrengésnél megtalált egy kislányt a romok alatt.
Origo cikk


Here, with the bronze statue of his in downtown Miskolc.

I am ashamed...

and believe me, many others are, too.

You might have heard or read what happened yesterday in Budapest...
I only read, from news sites. I wish I didn't. I might join Tomi and try to forget that such sites even exist.

But still, yesterday was supposed to be an uplifting day... And not every day we host the king of Norway and Spain and many other...
For many, it was clear since April that the celebrations won't happen in a peaceful way. The others were hoping...

Tribute

Timeline of Hungarian Revolution

also:
House of Terror - a must to visit for anyone trying to understand why hungarians are as they are.

Note

If you find a posting ending way too soon and sudden it's only because I got some other stuff to do during but I will get back to those posts and finish them :) So check them every now and then :)))

Hm...

ENFJ - "Persuader". Outstanding leader of groups. Can be aggressive at helping others to be the best that they can be. 2.5% of total population.

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If I was a well known leader...

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Yesterday...

We had the Info session for AIESEC yesterday afternoon. I was supposed to talk about conferences, meaning, motivate them for going to conferences.
I started by making comparison between education as we have it in its traditional/formal way and how learning happens in AIESEC. Of course, I did not have time to talk about the other 5 ways, and it wasn't the aim, afterall. I mentioned how many different kinds of conferences we have, then shared some moments of my experiences being a delegate. Starting with my first TEACH where Marcus Orlovsky had a 2-3 hour long motivational speech... talking about fuck ups :) and I remember most of us was amazed and was enjoying a lot... I would love to be able to have such an impact on people.
Then ACCESS came to my mind (it was called Introsemma at that point) where we had a session with a futurologist.. :) I don't exactly remember what we did there, but I do remember my feelings. And that I still have the guy's business card :)
And finally about EuroLDS 2004. There I made a personal 10 year goalsetting (it's changed a little bit since then...). But I'm here now because of that plan... I said I wanted to work in 3 different countries with AIESEC. Hungary, Finland, and now Romania :)

I have to say I felt really good being on stage. And I got good feedbacks also... I wish I could chair a newie camp at least for my home LC, MiskoLC.
And also to do facilitation at national or international newie conferences.

I used to be afraid being on stage, or more of making fun of myself on stage. I am not, anymore :)
I believe myself to be credible. I talk about things I have experienced, I love, I enjoy... things that are truly part of me. I am confident talking in English, thinking in English...

Whatever... :) I enjoyed being in front of those people yesterday.

About Romania part 3 (ARp x)

The things I wanted to write about:
- People (my hosts, the hungarians and in general)
- Places (Oradea and the countryside)
- AIESEC (the conference and in general)

Let's take the people for now.
(In my opinion, way too many people smoke here.)

It's quite strange being abroad but not really being a foreigner... I don't know exact numbers, but it feels almost half of the people here are hungarian... okay, the situation is more difficult than this. A whole lot of Romanians speak hungarian... There was not really a situation where I couldn't survive with hungarian. Some of the locals (romanians) are upset, cos not all hungarians talk (or know at all) romanian. For eg, if you pop in to a shop you might be asked 'Tessek?' (kind of 'What can I help you?' in hun) and people freak out claiming it to be Romania, for God's sake.
In case I couldn't use hun, I managed with english :)

Random thoughts...

I was reading Tomi's blog just before... gush, that guy has a lot of time to write :) and has a lot to say...

I also read the entry about Pike...
Since I'm in Romania, I was asked quite often about my experiences in Finland, how I got there, why, etc. I definitely talk much more about Finland than Hungary. I have my TUTAoverall here, I'm showing pics and telling stories.
Janne once sent me a link to an MBTI online personality test. I completed it first time to be labeled as ENFP... I completed again couple days ago to become INFJ.
It was so clear that I changed during my stay in Finland. And after returning home...

Tomorrow we have the Info session here in AIESEC. I was planning a speech. But it doesn't fit the concept, so I will have a different one. However, I don't want to let the idea get lost. Here I think it over and over again what AIESEC means for me. This is my 5th year in AIESEC. It feels impossible to highlight only 2 or 3 things... especially in a way that not-yet-aiesecers also understand.
I wanted to talk about personal things. Emotions also. And people... I can't be thankful enough for them. And they don't even know... At least not all of them.

About Romania part 2

Hm... where to continue?

I wrote about hitch-hiking... let's carry on with what I saw, experienced during that time.

Scenery, countryside.
I have to say the scenery is pretty nice. And changing, all the time... plain, hills, mountains, riverside, seeside...