I'm doing good on the TMU!

Hey everyone,

By now you should have seen the great TMU campaign I've been involved in around the Global Competency Model. It's great for me because it's fun, and it means I'm quickly learning a lot about the GCM. No doubt you would have seen Daz & Menia:

Menia and I were very pleasantly surprised to see emails from the MCPs of Kenya and Greece, throwing their praise behind our campaign. It was so great to hear!

Cheers,
- Daz

Australians in the Global Network!!

I was super proud at IC to have so many AIESEC Australians flung about the globe making the most of our AIESEC network, including:

• Taco 'Marty' Bosman (originally AIESEC Sydney, MCP 2004-2005) Outgoing AI Internal Auditor
• Alex Lobov, MC 07-08, (originally AIESEC Melbourne) VPER AIESEC in Bahrain
• Ruthie Scovell (originally AIESEC UQ) VP Logistics IC 2008, Brazil
• Mei Leisa Tuicolo (originally AIESEC Griffith, MCP 2006-2007) Internship ABN Amro Netherlands
  

And this year we are very proud of the International representation by many more including:

• Jolin Zhu, AIESEC Griffith, (MC AIESEC) in Georgia 07-08
• Michelle Hillman (AIESEC Griffith) soon to attend EuroCo in Lithuania
• Lee Yacoumis (AIESEC Adelaide), Ghana, internship
  
• Dino, (AIESEC Monash) Asia Pacific XLDS 2007
  
• Laura Allen (AIESEC USA), International Congress, Turkey
  
• James Parham (AIESEC AU) AIESEC China, ACYLP Co-ordinator
• Chloe (AIESEC AU) internship in Kenya
• myself, (AIESEC Sydney) CEED AIESEC Thailand
  
• Kay Willmore (AIESEC AU) CEED, AIESEC Poland
• Kylie Hansen (AIESEC WA), International Congress, Turkey

Get out of Australia, people, and find out what it really means to work for Peace and Fullfillment of Humankinds Potential in 103 countries!

Love Lucy

Anne vs Australia Friday Challenge

ANNE vs. AUSTRALIA FRIDAY CHALLENGE!
	Anne has been talking it up all week... she believes our AIESEC salespeople around the nation couldn't make more phone calls and organise more first meetings than she could IN ONE DAY! THE CHALLENGE HAS BEEN SET - IT IS TIME FOR AIESEC MIB SALES AGENTS TO STEP UP! Can AIESEC Australia beat Anne collectively in the number of phone calls and first meetings they organise?
	Anne vs. Australia Friday Challenges will be held on the 14th September and 5th October To prove her wrong and show her that the AIESEC Australia Sales Network is able to make more phone calls and organise more meetings than Anne in one day email chloe.reschkemaguire@aiesec.net your phone call and meeting numbers by close of business on Friday 14th September and 5th October. Is it possible? It's up to You!

McUpdate

Good morning everyone!

It's the first day of many that AIESEC.net is in read-only mode, an annoying frustrating time for us all. I logged in to AIESEC.net ready to make a posting, before realising that I couldn't. *sigh*

With the IC guys back we're pushing towards preparing ourselves and our sessions for September Presidents Meeting, which is 24 September to 28 September. Before that, there is State Manager Transition on 21 September to 23 September. This is the conference that all the newly elected LCPs and SMs get together with the outgoing ones. The newly elected LCPs and SMs are all given training on AIESEC and leadership and management skills and knowledge. The outgoing LCPs and SMs have their years wrapped up, and they are taken through a process which helps them conclude on their next steps in AIESEC, or futures outside.

What else has been happening? Well we have come back from IC with a lot of opportunities with exchange partnerships that are well worth promoting! I was sitting in the IC bring-back meeting and I was astounded at the cool opportunities that are our there for our members. Particularly for me, as VPTM, I love having opportunities to promote! It means development, which means we're delivering on our promise!

OK, so I've wasted a good 10 minutes on this... I better get back to work before BO$$MAMA notices I'm stuffing around. =P

Take care!

Cheers,
- Daz

News from IC?

Hey guys,

We just received the best email! Anne made a video message for us!!! We'd like to share it with you guys.



So just to fill some people in: I have Boony Dolls, and the second series of the Boony Doll was Boony and Beefy (because it was The Ashes Test Series). So since Boony has red hair and Beefy has blonde hair, Chloe and I thought what better way to live our IC experience, than through these plastic talking cricket dolls with moustaches. Looks like we're having a magnificent IC experience - getting the TASTE of a lot of cultures!!!

Cheers,
- Daz

Hey everyone!

We've spotted our Australian delegation on one of the videos at IC Live!




Here is the AI 07-08 dance as well.




Cheers,
- Daz

Weekend memories from the fun part of the MC

Half of the left behind MC(Kristina and Daz) just had a coolest weekend ever – we call it the curst weekend!

So the weekend started on Friday night. Everything was cool and we were excited about the upcoming weekend. Our plans were, to sleep in on Saturday and then go to Young blood markets, then go to project Echo event and then maybe go and listen some live music. For Saturday we had planned to go to watch the Idols show, go sightseeing with Chinese ceeders from SA and Polish night with UNSW.

So what actually happened:

At 7 am on Saturday morning we got SMS from IC people – they are having problems with check-in. The whole MC at home was waken up and immediate action in the morning was needed – so much about sleep in J. In the morning we tried to find different ways to solve the problem, but no success. Then we walked up to our rent agency to change the rent agreement – had to wait 30 mins for a person to turn up (there was sign, will be back in 5 mins). Then the trains were down and the rail buss driver obesely wasn’t really experienced, so instead of normal 20 minutes to the city, it took us 40 mins. By this time we had also missed the Young Blood markets.

First success in our plans – we made it to the project Echo event. We loved it, the content of the event was wonderful and made us think about the environment issues more. And we got to eat about 15-20 Danishes each! Yeay – and there went my diet!

After the event and Danishes, we decided that we need to walk this fat out of our bodies. So together with Daga, we walked from Sydney uni to Milson’s point and also did a small walk in the Luna Park.

For Sunday, Nicky organized us free tickets to see the former Idols participants show in the Cinema. We love you Nicky! The show ended up to be only 40 mins – every artist performed 2 songs. But while going out from the show, we come to a cool idea – while we are in the cinema and in the ticket area already – let’s go and see movies. So we ended up to see some parts of 3 movies – the knock out, the new penguins surf movie and the Simpson’s – and all of it for freeJ. After the movies we were suppose to go sightseeing with the Ceeders. And of course – it started to rain in Sydney. Daz still managed to do sightseeing with the girls, but I gave up…it was raining big time. I tried to go to my belly dance lessons instead. The lesson was supposed to start at 17.30. So I left the city well in advance, walked to North Sydney reached the dance studio – and there is a singe: CLOSED, will be back 9 am. I was very confused, because the time was 17.15. After some time, one lady come out and I asked what is happening, she said – well there was only 1 person in the lesson and we need 2 to have it…so everyone went home. Then I realized that my clock was wrong, it was actually 18.00 already!

The weekend ended in Kana’s place, eating polish pancakes and listening polish music.

Uhh…what a weekend!

TGIF!

Hello members!

So it's Friday, but I already have a brickbat and bouquet I'd like to put in the minutes.

Bouquet to Coles Express in the Forum of St. Leonards for having $0.99 Jersey Caramels! So cheap and so delicious!!!

I bought a couple of packets, which we shared around the office. The girls have self-control and were able to stop when they were about to go too far. Not me. I now have a headache!

So anyway, this week for me was a week of PD Chats, and I've been hearing some great numbers going through the recruitment pipeline. We're up to receiving applications for exchange, most LCs have their application deadlines in the next day or two. So far, we have 110 applications for exchange! This means we are on track for our 100 EPs goal. Especially when you hear that the LCs that needed members are running second round recruitments targeted around EPs, so this applications number is going up and up!

Congratulations Australia!

Cheers,
- Daz

Australia leaves for International Congress 2007!

Yesterday our fantastic delegates for IC 2007 departed for the conference.

From Sydney Airport we had Kate (MCP), Anne (VP-ER), Lucy (VP-P) and Jake (SM-NSW) head off. From Adelaide Airport we had Laura (LCP-USA) and from Perth Airport we had Kylie (SM-WA). They are all meeting in Singapore, before flying straight to Turkey, all together!

I'd like to wish them all the best on their journey. We're all proud of you guys representing us, and we all hope you show everyone how great Australians are. All the best.

The LCD's are going crazy!

Ok so it is 6.23pm and we are in the office finishing some things off.

I am unfortunately doing Uni work (trying to get a few things donw prior to going to IC - not being very successful though) and while I am working quietly (the ER Cell are so the good ones of the office) all I hear is the loudest, most off tune singing possible from the LCD office.

Oh how I love having the LCD's back from SnA :-P

So I would like to take a poll. What is the best way to keep LCD's quiet...
a. Ear plugs
b. Take away their speakers
c. Ship them all to WA (its the furthest away from Syd).

Advice and help to get away from these crazy people is greatly appreciated!!!! :-P hehehehe

Make your vote here :-)

Newsletters: useful or annoying?

Outcomes of wrestling with the newsletter generator:

- 544 mail delivery failure notices in my Inbox
- a very pretty newsletter with links that don't work
- a few too many hours spent in office on Saturday arvo

ay yay yay!

Love Lucy

Return to the office

Hi everyone,

Today's my first day back after two weeks of SnA: Adelaide and then Perth. It was a really great time - I LOVE SnA! There were so many highlights as I think back...

• William running home after the pub crawl and Karolina's house.
• Rock climbing (more like struggling) - Laura and Jon ran up those walls!
• Magill is such a sexy campus.
• All of the "what should I do next year" chats.
• Joint birthday party with Shez at Kylie's! Thanks for the vegie cookbook that was so sweet.
• All the stall days - Curtin, AU and UWA
• Truth or Drink at Uncle Billy's!
• The awesome vegie restaurant that I can't spell - Annalakshmi's?
• Try's house party with the great drinking games

Can't wait to return! I'm here in the office and...

• The server is down.
• I have all these emails to sift through.
• I have lots to do.

*sigh*

Cheers,
- Daz

Ok so the MC office has taken a poll and it has been decided....

So much more work gets done when the evil threesome (Chloe, Daz and Lucy) are not in the office. Companies have been called, meetings organised, positions matched - YEAH!!!

However, I do have to say we have been feeling the absence of the team - Eloise and I have tried to fill the void (Eloise and her singing off key and our occasional random dancing) but it isn't the same.

We miss you guys and hope you are enjoying SnA.

170 Exchanges 2007/2008 - GO AIESEC AUSTRALIA - RAISE THOSE TNs and EPs

Good luck from the MC office.

Back in the office ... and it's oddly quiet!

We're back in the office after July conference and Daz, Lucy and Chloe are away on SnA. It makes for a quieter working day without Chloe's singing, Daz's music and Lucy's chatter. Or so I thought ...

I have been ATTACKED by our BD cell and their appalling taste in music. I had Eloise and Anne dancing around me singing an Avril Lavigne song.

You guys suck!