post-IC post no.1

Some random thoughts I that came up during IC:

-How do you make Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) a priority for those that have no idea what it is? How do you make a country, an industry, a company see a need for CSR? And how do you make them see that AIESEC is a way to get there?

-IC is a platform for networking with externals..... and showing us off to those same externals.

-I miss Doha. On MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Night, I heard familiar Arabic music as I was walking down the stairs to the party area and it was the first time I relaxed and took a deep breath... somehow, I felt at home among the lilting notes; it was something which I never realized I would miss.

-I'm surprisingly unfazed by having people from 100 countries in one room. I wonder why?

-My resolve to correct past mistakes and set @Qatar right has been strengthened.

-I want to live in more countries, work harder, reach more people, change lives.

-I miss my KE and EZ, but most of all, I miss who they are as unique individuals and how we all connect on every possible level, above who I am when I'm with them or anything else. There's something to be said for knowing someone so well that you can be halfway across the world and still know when they're thinking about you. And I'm lucky enough to have two of those people. :)

-I like the Dutch.

-I am able to fight for something that's against my personal beliefs for the good of my members and for the good of AIESEC Qatar. To me, that means that I belong here right now.

-I have this incredible pressing necessity to travel and live in other countries... as many as possible for as long as possible.

-Americans are so obvious.

-Do I really look Qatari? No way, I say... but to non-gulfies? Many people at IC thought I was actually from Qatar... HAAhahahaa!

-The AIESEC high fades after time. The high doesn't ever get as high as it does after your first conference. After a while, you need more impact to feel that you can make as much of a difference. But the good news is that you begin to look for that impact in other places, like in conversations with externals who know things that you don't... and the more you have to work for the impactful discussions, the more they are worth. More on discussions with externals in my next post.