Input Meeting has started!

Yep, we've finally started what we've been working so hard during the last few weeks. Today was the Opening Plenary, a session on the history of AIESEC in Spain and one on showing stories of current success stories in the AIESEC network. We've just had a meeting amongst the MC and our Chair and have all agreed that it's a real pleasure seeing the motivation that the delegates have and how they enjoy seeing each other again.
Our Chair is David from Portugal, last years MCP there. He's already made friends with the Spanish guys by singing a very explicit song as roll call together with Luis. At least it was in Portuguese so the "guiris" amongst us didn't understand that much :-)
Right now we're still continuing the discussion on changes in compendium and internal policies together with the LCPs. It's good to see them all interested and working at this time of the night, go guys and girls!!!

besitos,
la cangrejita ;-)

No matter how tired you can be, let's keep our inspiration: here we go AIESEC in Spain!

Here I go, the first contribution...

As I saw in a friend's nickname: "It's been a hard day's night and I've been working like dog..."

Yes, all this week and the last one have been totally crazy for me, but please don't think in the "work", I would love to thank from the bottom of my heart to Lina (CEEDer in Pompeu Fabra) for your kindness and disposition to do a wonderfull job for AiS; to Pepe (CEEDer in IQS) for all your courage and always great attitude to face challenges and challenge yourself as well; to my amaizing national support team: Carles and Magda for believe in me, in the people around you, in the AiS potential and for showing me an inspiring example of a teamwork.

Here we go AIESEC in Spain.

And last but not least, thanks to my team, my friends for the time and nights expended together:

the girl who wanted to be "air hostess"..
the girl who won a "spelling contest"..
the boy who was passionate about "new technology"..
the boy who was living in "three different cities"..
the boy who had a "fox as a pet"..
the boy who was in "danger of death three times"..

The day before departing to Córdoba

Friday... for someones is the last day of their working week... for us, this friday was simply AMAZING:

Angel & Luis arrived quite early to finish the office cleaning. The rest of the team started on Thursday, and Juan got crazy packaging and sending all the recruitment materials to our LCs.



Why cleaning the office? Because we had an incredible Learning Circle about Code of Ethics with EBBF & IBM.
For 3 hours, we were working about ethics, and learning about actions/organizations quite interesting discover differences between organizational goals-ethics & individual goals:
An ethics high-way with lots of unethical exits/short-cuts.


But the morning didn't finished there...
Minutes after leaving our Learning Circle guests, Ivica (spanish & croatian MC alumni) came to visit us, because he was on holidays. Imagine that a 6 terms ago MC member appears one day in your office... incredible!

And...
CEEDers preparation!
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Trainee reception in the MC office!
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Introducing foreign AIESECers studying this year in Madrid!
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Invitations to night party (Trainees reception & Angel's birthday!), just before departing to our national conference in Córdoba. Cool, isn't it?? :-)


That's all from the MC live office!!

Hope seeing you all soon, or at least your comments!!

Cheers!

MC Life

What was happening in the MC office today?

Ale (MCVP Finance) and José (VPF Bellaterra and National Finance and Audit Team, ENAF) were doing the planning for the ENAF. They were defining a vision for this years ENAF, doing a SWOT analysis (did you know that a SWOT in Spanish is a DAFO? ;-) sorry for the random comment of la extranjera =)) , revised roles and responsibilities of the team and designed the strategies that they will be implemented in the Finance area of AIESEC in Spain and that will be implemented in the LCs.

Mayte (MCVP Talent Management) was busy preparing Lina from LC Uppsala (Sweden). Lina is currently doing an Exchange Semester in Barcelona and will be doing a CEED in LC Pompeu Fabra during that time. To make sure she knows enough about AIESEC in Spain and about how we plan and run the recruitment and induction she had a full day of education.

Also in the office were Luis and Sarah. Sarah was working on the sessions for the Input Meeting and as well giving Lina an introduction to the Iberoamerica GN and the Ser Mas program. Luis was catching up on emails and making sure that more and more interns will come to Spain.

Talking about interns, two of them arrived this week, Sophie from France and Raul from Germany. They will both work at PwC. Irina from UCM has been providing a great reception for them, helping to pick them up at the airport, preparing a welcome package and helping them to look for a flat in Madrid. Javi (also from UCM) is opening his home for them so they have a place to stay until they find something. Our third new intern Olga (that you know quite well :-)) has already started her internship at PwC, Sophie and Raul will join her soon.

Last but not least, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY MEXICO! We will celebrate tonight, no matter what :-)

New member of the Board of Advisors!

Yesterday Toni and Sarah had an amazing meeting with Daniel Truran, the Secretary General of EBBF who's based in Madrid. And he accepted to be in our Board of Advisors!!! (imagine Toni jumping up and down because he's so happy :-))
If you want to know more about Daniel, click here, and if you want to know more about EBBF you can visit their website or their blog. EBBF is a network of "People Inspiring Responsible Business". On their website you can for example find Knowledge Centres with Resources on issues such as Corporate Responsibility or Social Entrepreneurship so make sure you check it out!
Our discussion covered topics such as how he can help us with our activities this year, a Learning Circle on the Code of Ethics, new workshops EBBF is developing and facebook :-) Hopefully you'll be able to meet him personally, it's amazing to get input on our ideas from an external point of view and see that there are people out there who have extremely similar values as AIESEC does.

Update: of course we've gotta sign a contract still, but it's been agreed on a by handshake and you've gotta appreciate if things move for once :-)

First week after IC

Today was the first real relaxing day after an amazing conference in Turkey.
IC represented for me an amazing opportunity to live the globality of AIESEC, with more than 600 delegates from more than 100 countries... that was just awesome! Sharing the same vision with all the people there was something that confirmed me that I'm doing the right things, living far from my country, family and friends.
AIESEC in Spain has really brilliant people, they just need to believe and they will do together amazing things. I'm proud to be part of this team and work to create growth in Spain.

See you in Cordoba soon!!!!

AMAZING IC!

Hey everyone!!!

Incredible experience the one we lived in Turkey... you need to live it at least once in your life!

As you can see in Sarah's photo, we love dressing up like Torero's and Sevillana's during Global Village, and we look soooo fancy! here it comes a recomendation: if you want to feel like a famous person, just dress up like this and go to a Global Village. People will take a hundred thousand photos of you :)

Being a bit more serious, what i really loved from IC was the intensity. Being part of the finance subcomitee (you meet outside agenda time to discuss topics, give inputs to the global plenary, read all the financial information of AI and make explanations to all the MCPs), Chair of SSGN (now called Iberoamerica GN, you'll have more info about that during IM) and even more being selected faci for EUROCO (AEEEE!!!!!) made my agenda look crazy every day. So after finishing sessions at 10pm we all were feeling completely exhausted, but all the Spanish delegation gathered to do the daily Delegation Meeting and explain each other how was the day, how we felt, give feedback about facis, sessions, partners launches... and you know how i felt when i saw all the spanish delegates eyes shining, completely nervous to go back and have more chats with other countries, completely excited about the day that had just finished and about the next day coming... in that precise moment all my tireness just disapeared, and a warm and comfortable feeling of happyness came all through my body, making me smile like a child.

Because i was feeling proud of the Spanish Delegation
Proud of my team
Proud to be SPANISH

Spain at International Congress 2007 in Turkey!

Parts of the spanish delegation with Gabiza, the President of AIESEC International during the Global Village

Hey everyone,

apologies for not giving you updates on this space during the last two weeks, but IC was quite a hectic time for all of us as we used it all for meetings with other countries, with our international teams that we are a part of and for getting the biggest amount of knowledge and information out of it. If you want to get a taste of IC don't forget to check out IC-Live! where you can find videos of most of the sessions as well as pictures and discussions that were happening during the two weeks.
Your MC Team is now back in the office, still curing some colds, but otherwise refreshed and extremely motivated after the exciting time we had at IC. All of us were able to get some new ideas and inputs for our functions as well as useful contacts that will help us to reach our goals this year.
Yesterday and today we've been working on our next conference, Input Meeting, to make sure you all have the necessary tools for the start of the semester to achieve what you planned for. We're also discussing our LC Development strategy to make sure AIESEC in Spain reaches its potential because we don't only want to see potential but results this year.

To get an idea of who is reading this blog and what kind of information you want to have on it, please leave a comment with your name, LC and what you're interested to know about from your MC.

Cheers and see you soon!