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Just letting you all know we have moved to nomadlife.
http://aiesecauckland.nomadlife.org/

President of AIESEC International 2006-2007 is...

Edyson Dos Santos (Dey)
AI Director for Africa Growth Network

How exciting!

And...
Ka pai Ryan! Our very own MCP Ryan Sheppard has been selected as one of the directors on AI. CONGRATULATIONS!

AU Recruitment Time

It's that time again! Meet EVERYDAY this week at the office 6.50am for a fun way to start the year!

SEE YOU THERE!

Fam on Exchange

Hey!!!

Check out Andrew's blog! He's living the life in Cartegena Columbia and loving every minute of it. Have a read and fill his blog with comments!!!

LC meeting 16th Feb

In last LC meeting/ lecture bash training session, we and a special guest from Australia, Noelle discussed about what we should include when we try to deliver our message to potential AIESECrs! We discussed three key questions as a group,

1) Why did you join AIESEC?
2) What makes you stay in AIESEC?
3) Things of AIESEC that will attract potential members.
If you didnt come to the meeting, then ask yourself these questions and always keep in mind those things are what make AIESEC different =)

In the end, we concluded three things, Change, Challenge and Development.
Change: powerful impact that AIESEC can have on you, as well as the impact that you can have on others
Challenge: new challenges in everyday life
Development: Personal and Professional development

Personally, I found the meeting particular relevant because it was a good opportunity for self-reflection, which not only helps when we are doing our lecture bashes, but all through our AIESEC life whenever we have to make a "choice".
cool, luv you all!

Lecture on media coverage of terrorist acts

A lecture on media coverage of terrorist events around the world will be held at The University of Auckland at 6.30pm on 2 March (Engineering Theatre, 20 Symonds Street).

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Director of the Center for Democratic Studies at the University of Haifa, Israel, will shed light on the intricate relationship between government, media and terrorists, using examples from the USA, UK, Israel, Canada and Germany.

His lecture is entitled "Media coverage of acts of terrorism: Problems and remedies".
He says there have been many instances in which media coverage of terrorist events has been problematic and irresponsible, evoking public criticism and antagonising authorities.

"At times the media has allied itself with terrorists, rather than the government, for partisan or ideological reasons, illustrating the need to develop a set of guidelines for responsible media coverage of terrorist events," he says.

"The media should cooperate with the government when human lives are at stake in order to bring a peaceful end to the terrorist episode."

Entrepreneurship in action

Being in AIESEC, many of us are interested in entrepreneurship. Therefore I would urge you all to tune in to an exciting new programme showing on TV on Thursday nights at 8:30pm.

The Dragon's Den shows five business gurus willing to invest alot of capital into just about any idea or anybody. In this new series would-be entrepreneurs pitch their new business ideas and demostrate their prototypes to try and convince the investors that their idea is worthy.

Not only is it tension filled television ,it is also very relevant to those of us wanting to succeed in the business enviroment. Lots to learn and very exciting!

Move over The Apprentice, The Dragon's Den is the HOT new thing.

The Dragon’s Den
Thursday Night TV 1 - 8.30pm

AIESEC Day

Congratulations to Lama for being selected for national AIESEC day co-ordinator!

After the exposure we got from last years AIESEC day a nationaly co-ordinated effort is going to be fantastic.

AIESEC
Some people might have thought the triangle-cross-circle logo had something to do with Playstation, but last Tuesday in the quad, AIESEC ("Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales") was doing its annual recruitment drive. Free pizza and V aside, after often being the recipient of comments about how useless our degree is and how hard it will be to get a job once we graduate, it is gratifying to hear that there are organisations in the countries all over the world crying out for a new talent.
- Craccum, University of Auckland student newsletter: August 2005

To keep in touch with whats happening with AIESEC day be sure to visit the planning forum
http://www.aiesec.net/members/ai/newzealand/forums/message-view?message%5fid=38542839

Wonders of the New Year in Poland!

Greetings from the very cold country Poland!

Only a few days ago, the temperature here was -25degrees. Totally felt my face, hands and legs are going to fall off. Just can't wait till this winter ends. Well lets see, what did I do during this month and Xmas? Alot of things and you might want to read them when you have spare time on your hands.

Xmas

Was invited to a polish family xmas. Very excited about it. Spent about 3 nights with them. I had few wonderful xmas pressies given to me. Totally loved it. Got a bottle of Napoleon Brandy. Don't really know what to do with this as I'm not really a drinker. A few boxes of alcoholic chocolates. hmm... those were better and very nice. :) A book about poland. Loved it. Spent days flipping over the thing. and lastly a cd with polish xmas carols. Havn't played it yet...

Over all the xmas experience was totally awesome. Had the typical polish dishes of carp, fish soup, dumplings, boiled cabage, salad and many more. Also can't get enough of their poppy seed cake. Might try and make it here. Felt like I have eaten a whole cow after the 3 days with them. I have some pictures up on the internet now so click on the link I have sent before and go to my other albums or go to the link that I'll send you later.

New Years

Well on the 27th I went to visit Sandy in Wroclaw. Luckily her flatmates were away and I was able to use one of their beds. The day after that, her friend from Germany came and that night we went skating in an open air skate rink. Wasn't as fun as it sounds as the rink was so rough that I couldn't even skate properly. It didn't help with all these pros wizzing by me.

Well we got a ride from Trojan - an AIESECer from Wroclaw, to a place in the mountains called Kowary. During the ride, we had several failed attempts at creating a singing group. I guess a career as a singer, I will not be in this life time.

We were a bit exhausted when we got there and it didn't help when we found out that we have missed dinner and no one saved us anything. Got bread and cheese instead when we complained to be dying of starvation.

The first day there was really great as we got a chance to go over to Cezh. Republic. Went to a town there and a friend bought some crystal glasses. They are quite cheap here as it only cost her around $50nzd for two sets of crystal wine glasses.


The next day we missed the first and second bus to go skiing, so we tagged along with two others to go sledding down a hill on plastic bags. I had a great time. Got really cold and wet but was really enjoying it. That night we celebrated the new years polish style. In that we missed out on the count down and ate most of the night away. And finally to finish off the new year we each gave cheers for friends and family we have missed back home. A bit depressing...Overall the new year was really great. And after the new years we went back to wroclaw to see the french Opera show Carmen. Totally didn't understand a word but we got a summary info from the net. Kinda fell asleep a few times during the show but was worth the experience.

Ok the month has not end yet so will continue my adventures on my next email sometime next week....

To be continued...

Mark Huynh: SN in Katowice, Poland

The best weekend ever...

It's LC Weekend Away! Happening on Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 March.

It's going to be a great weekend,
A time to catch up with everyone after a long holiday period
A time for Jan Forum bring back
A time to get up to date with the haps in the LC - all those new strategies, and revisiting the old ones
A time to PARTY
(A draft agenda should be uploaded by the end of next week)

Registration is up. Please click on the link in the right hand corner under surveys.
Deadline: Monday 20th February (please don't miss it)

Please keep $20 aside for accomdation and food.

Also if you are interested in being on the OC for LCWA please e-mail me asap: Ying.kong@aiesec.net

Support Roles

Hope you are all excited about the upcoming recruitment!!!

Well I've finally learnt to post files on a blogg and am very happy to announce the opening of the support roles for the upcoming recruitment and beyond. These are open to all and will close Tuesday 14th of February.

All you need to do is drop me an email to discuss the role further (that's after reading the JD of course;)).

All Job Descriptions can be downloaded from the links below:

AIESEC Day OCP

AU Recruitment Responsible

AUT Recruitment Responsible

PD Support


Any probs let me know=)

Discuss world issues around the globe

Can you feel AIESEC's global network?
I certainly can.

There's some very interesting discussions going on at the moment, that have people from all over the world contributing to and I would really like to encourage you to be part of it.

First make sure you are signed up to the Global Learning Networks Community
Interesting threads to read are:

Community: Global Learning Networks Forum: 1. General Questions Thread: Cartoons of Mohammed And The Reactions
A discussion around the caricatures of a danish newspaper which upset many people of islamic religion around the world.

Community: Global Learning Networks Forum: 1. General QuestionsThread: Humanitarian Intervension
A discussion on whether humanitarian intervension violates our rights as humans

Learn what AIESECers from all over the world think about current global issues and contribute to the discussions! There's many interesting discussions in the community so make sure you check it out!

Also make sure you are signed up to the Global Members Community
Take a look at the PAI Corner. Here members are asking Brodie, our current President of AIESEC International (PAI) about the global direction, what he thinks about exchange and just advice in general

PBOX for sustainable development

PBOX for sustainable development - a step towards a truely clean and green way of life through social and enviromental innovation

What is Sustainability?

"Sustainability is ultimately about the interplay between people and ecologies, our fundamental task in the coming decades is to redesign our socio-political-economic system in ways that reintegrate the dependencies between people and our underpinning ecological systems"

Get involved. Be part of this PBOX!

http://www.aiesec.net/members/ai/newzealand/auckland/forums/message-view?message_id=32398700

Please post on this forum your ideas and comments. Only with your help can we really drive this PBOX!

Please e-mail me your name if you want to be directly involved with the hands on process of driving the PBOX: ying.kong@aiesec.net

New Zealand is our home. The Tangata whenua have strong culture and spiritual connections with the enviroment, natural resources and places need to be respected and provided for. Together, through living values and culture of sustainability we can work towards developing the qualities of life we aspire to and would wish for our children and their children.

The LC Reunited! (I know a tad dramatic =p)

Hey Everyone!

Today we finally had the first LC meeting of 2006! Exciting exciting stuff!

The agenda included:
Photo
Icebreakers
Recruitment Overview
Pbox
Support Roles
Here is proof we stuck to the agenda!

The icebreaker was without a doubt the highlight of the meeting =p Not because the other parts were boring, but because it was facilitated by Linda and myself! We played a game of psychologist where the LC had to guess what disease a few people had. By the end of the icebreaker session they LC still hadn't guessed the problem! So I'm looking forward to a continuation of this in the future!

All in all it was an awesome LC meeting. Was great catching up with the people we hadn't seen in ages! I let out a little scream after seeing Vina and Tihana ... but then again that is just me =p

Look forward to seeing more updates soon! Things are happening in Auckland =)

BBB

Finance Ratifications

On Monday 16 January we had finance ratifications.
Congratulations to Linda who was successfully ratified.

Welcome the executive board January - June 2006