same old...

Just chugging along, day by day. Summer is lazy in Qatar, even if I am not. Makes it tough to get anything done.

Holding out until IC (seven days away!), where Lonneke and I will descend, sporting wicked tans, networking chutzpah, fierce abayas and a boatload of culture.

Meeting today with a monthly happenings magazine went well. Once we're legal and get this career counseling PBoX off the ground (anyone interested in building a new generation of ballsy, market-savvy Qataris? Let me know.), we'll have events and publicity like woah. Unhappily, still no update on QP's funding of the 400,000QR project.

Meeting tomorrow with HSBC. Trying to build regional partnership for exchange. I usually get freaked out before these big meetings, but they always seem to go pretty well.

Wishing the members were more driven. Still need to help them find their passion for AIESEC [I keep insisting to myself that it's there, they just need to recognize it]. In general, social events/sleeping seems to be their priority... how do you teach people to put their future first? Shouldn't that desire be inherent? Maybe it is and they just don't see how AIESEC fits in... I just want to shake them and say, "You're coasting! You're coasting! Push yourselves!" I didn't come here to watch people coast in familiarity and comfort... There's definitely a ton to still figure out. *sigh*

First recruitment starts the last week of August. MC will be in Istanbul. It's not the best situation, but not the worst, either. I think Facebook will be a gold mine. We just have to start moving on things.