My good bye to AIESEC Latvia

I truly enjoyed each one of you :)
Thank you!
Anca

NatCon 2008

Last weekend, AIESEC Latvia had its National Conference - NatCon 2008. The conference had a huge impact on our delegates and it turned out to be the best National Conference in the last years. We had 2 tracks, one dealing with PboX management for newies and one focused on Leadership Development for our EBs and OCPs.

Our conference team was made of 8 people of 6 nationalities. Our chair was Vishal, new elected MCP of AIESEC in Belgium. The facis were from Lithuania, Russia, Turkey, Romania and Latvia. All the conference team created a great atmosphere for AIESEC Latvia networking and bonding.

To the success of the conference contributed the externals invited, representing companies as PwC, Deloitte, Microsoft, CVO Recruitment and British Chamber of Commerce. It turned out that each day of the conference we had someone invited and delegates could network with the guests as most of them stayed at the conference later than planned initially (they enjoyed AIESEC spirit).

Added to this, we also had the chance to listen to the vision of the MC candidates for next term. They shared their ideas for how to improve and make AIESEC Latvia grow.

All these contributed to a great conference that made all delegates leave home inspired and motivated to work!

We as MC team would like to thank the faci team, the chair and the OC for contributing to NatCon 2008!

Wish you all such wonderful moments in your national conferences!

MC Team of Latvia 2007-2008

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CHANGE AGENT EVERYWHERE

Hey dears,

I want to share one great thing that happened to me today.

I was invited to one press conference of one education program that is new in Latvia and will be launched in March. It is supported by Lattelecom, Hansa banka, Fontes and other companies. The aim of it is to raise teachers prestige and to make changes in the education system in Latvia. If the government is not doind any drastic change then corporates decided to take it and make some change

The name of the prgram is Iespejamaa misija - Mission possible and the idea - to select 20 students that will be prepared and educated during the summer and will work in schools for 2 years as teachers but the innovative ones and develop their skills as leaders, also will be the role models for the pupils. They will have the courses on leadership provided, on teaching, they will have also the practive in the company during the summer between those 2 years to make them more interesting for the pupils and not to restrict them from gettign the experience in the field they wanna work after. Maybe some of them will go to the comoanies to work afterwards, maybe will stay in schools. They will be getting scholarship during 2 years.

It is amazing.

the webpage if the program is

http://www.iespejamamisija.lv/lv/misija/

Latvia will be the 4th country in the world running such a programm. It is for 13 years in USA, for 4 years in Great Britain " Teachfirst". U can check it, also very very cool.

The guy from Great Britain who is responsible for the program named 8 competencies that are the basis for the selection of 300 program participants - the teachers - out of 2000.

Those are:
Resilence
Humility, Respect and Empathy
Knowledge
Leadership
Self evaluation
Problem solving
Interaction
Planning and Organizing


In Estonia for one year " NOOREDKOOLI". And guess what - 2 of the Estonian organization team were - AIESEC alumni.

There was the time for asking the questions after the presentation of the program and I asked one and at the beginning I introduced myself and 2 persons turned their heads.

After they came and said that they were in AIESEC in Estonia for 6 years. They were in MC in international MC in Singapore and in other positions.

Also they were telling that they promoted AIESEC as a very good cooperation for this program in Latvia

I was amazed. It was nice.

So, if you are intersted in education issue, education changes in Latvia - go ahead.

I am really happy about such a step taken by the corporate sector. There was the respresentative from the ministry of Education and she was trying to hide, but she was so much conservative and was nice to see how the leaders of Latvia business - Hansa banka and Lattelecom were trying to nicely fight against her.

Have a nice day and I am happy that AIESEC is also bringing value to the change and some new sights in the pupils lifes - YW3, Informal age in Valmiera that is coming, Ethnical diversity

Nice

Going dancing!

Hei dears,

Me and Karina promised to post here after our nice evening last night.
We want to start socialising right and have fun? Well, for sure this club is the place to go!
So I propose that next free weekend:) we are going again. I loved it!

We met with Karina and Marcio at Laima monument (the new name of Laima clock, given by Marcio). Of course, Marcio was late:).
We went to warm up at Salt'n Pepper, we all had nice drinks to warm up, as I said.

Then we were heading nicely towards the club, we got in (after being carefully checked by the guy at the entrance, we showed our ISIC card to tell him - daaa, we are 21!)...
And the fun began. We enjoyed dancing like crazy, we enjoyed meeting some of Karina's classmates, we enjoyed the nice good'looking guys from Riga (one was so good, but I think he was gay, he was not even looking at girls)...and then I experienced trying to be picked up in Latvian...haha, they were so dissapointed...

Well, I don t know how much you got out of our fun, but hat is crucial is the fact that we had loads of fun and we just enjoyed our unplanned going out!



Let's do this as often as possible...maybe I find some nice good-looking guys not being gay...


Kisses, Ancush

Greetings from Kuba

Hey guys !

Greetings from Prague,
today I got out of train at Praha Hlavni Nadrazi Stanica [Prague's train main station :P]
and the blues started :P

but before I spent one day in my belllloooooved country :))))
guys it was so weird to hear all those ppl speaking language that I understand :D:D:D
but on the other hand I realized that I missed it soooooooo much ...
I went to Lowicz, one hr by train from warsaw to meet my friends from LC Univ. Warszawski
as they had LTS there :) then came back to Waw and stayed at Igor's flat :)
Awesome :) on my way back I will buy lots of polish beer and other things that are not in LV [suprisingly :P there are such things :P ]

Currently sending out greetings from Czech MC flat, 30 min with the underground from centre :P
it's nice, tomorrow we're going to spend 4 hrs in trains to get to the venue.
Czech MC ppl are greeting you as well.

Again I work with multiromanian team :P this time 3 of them :)

and for now that's all :P

enjoy Ira's visit, make the best out of it, have a productive BoA meeting.
miss you all .... but just a little bit :P

Kuba

ps. I understand almost everything here :D they just speak "funny" version of polish :D

It is Baltic cooperation ;)