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What are young leaders up to?

International Congress of AIESEC just finished 2 days ago in India. It was the third international congress that I attended, although this time I was one of the organizers.
Many people say it was the best congress in the past years. Good to know and perhaps it is beneficial especially for the image of AIESEC in [...]

Discovery - how I work best

I had “aha moment” this week.
It was Tuesday afternoon, and my task list was growing to infinity, with most of them being highly creative. One of them was to create an interactive online space for members of our organisation. By that moment, I had been sitting near my laptop typing all day and suddenly realised [...]

Weekend cycling - Europort!

Amazing place! Have never thought I will be so close to the wind turbines in my life … :)

Just 6 hours cycling and you are there… What an adventure!

Upside down

I went for a walk this evening, the walk went near the beautiful canal here in Rotterdam, right next to my house. At some point I sat on the bench to look at the water.
When I lived in Moscow (some 2 years ago), I used to spend my evenings in the trains. It would take [...]

In love with Rotterdam!

On my first day in this city I took part in the game that was organised by the previous team of AIESECers. They called the game In love with Rotterdam.
That day, I explored my new surroundings and was totally impressed with where I was. I knew that I was going to experience the most of [...]

First weeks in AIESEC International

Hello everyone.
It’s been a month and a half since I moved to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, to work in a multinational team of 20 young people from 16 different countries.

June was a takeover month for our team, where we got the update about organizational performance in the past, created bonds between each other and prepared to [...]

TIO-4 Mendi

Mendi is a special rice that is cooked in the Middle East, and usually served with chicken, fish or shua (meat prepared with Omani recipe).
Mendi is not Omani dish originally, however it is quite popular here.
There is Al Maida Yemeni restaurant in 5 min drive from our house, and all reception dinners of our international [...]

TIO 3 Unexpected Generosity

Hello everyone!
First of all, as my friend Thamim says, 1000 apologies for not writing in this space for a bit and poorly following the promise of at least one TIO fact per week.
However I am clearly improving and today I’d like to tell you one of the most impressive TIO that my international team and [...]

TIO -2

In one of the first evenings in Oman, Tris saw the fire on the Sultan Qaboos Highway.
It was a car that got into an accident. Surprising observation about this situation is that many people were either passing by (not very interested) or standing and discussing the accident right on the road.
Fortunately, noone got injured and [...]

This is Oman

This all started almost a year ago, when I first arrived to Oman, and began to experience different strange things happening (or appearing) here and there, in most cases - completely unexpectedly.
As a European person, I find a lot of Omani / Middle Eastern “features” very interesting, fascinating and totally out of the box.
Tristan called [...]