Western Presidents Meeting 2007 - Vancouver, BC

"West and Atlantic: We're in the GAME!"

"Mmm...Tomates et riz!!!"

Lunch time!

"Stop right now, thank you very much, I need somebody with a human touch!"

- Marc and Jomar at Kareoke -

Public Service Announcement

Just so you know...Harshitha cries herself to sleep every night because no one comments on our blog anymore. Save the children. Do the right thing!

H4TF and REALITY TV

Today, amongst much yelling and screaming watching the Pussy Cat Dolls' show, we determined that as we H4TF, we should all go on a reality show. Which ones you ask? Well...

Shirley - American Idol
Harshitha - Are you Smarter than a 5th grader
Tai - Who wants to marry a millionaire
Messalina - Pussy Cat Dolls (who wants to be the next one...?!)
Juan - VJ Search
Talicia - Survivor
John - Amazing Race
Jean-Nic - The Bachelor
Carolyn - Canada's Next Great Prime Minister

So folks, remember to keep your eyes and ears open in the coming years as the MC heads for the future in our new roles...

As a side note, we also brainstormed what personalities/roles we would all take on if we were one big (dis-functional) family at a Christmas/Thanksgiving dinner/celebration. The verdict?

Carolyn - The silly, loving grandma who gets drunk during supper!
Messalina - The cool teenager
Talicia - Posh/too cool for family older sister
Tai - Proper aunt
Harshitha - The mum
Shirley - The baby
Jean-Nic - The sweet uncle who buys everyone gifts/candy
John - The Dad
Juan - The kid in the corner who plays video games and doesn't give a shit
Token: Assem as the crazy, drunk uncle =)

CEED Preparation Weekend!

This past weekend CEED Preparation was held in Toronto! All 15 CEEDers for the summer of 2007 were in Toronto on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for a full weekend of cultural and professional preparation for their 2-4 month mandates abroad. It was an absolute blast, and a smashing success! A special thank you goes out to Kelly from the Centre for Intercultural Learning for delivering the cultural preparation sections of the weekend.

Good luck Brian, Rochelle, Richard, Melissa, Messalina, Karrolyn, Layial, Harshitha, Julie, Carol, Duncan, Stephanie, Marina, Manry and Mathieu on your CEEDs this summer! Stay tuned to follow their experiences in Jordan, India, Togo, Brazil, Ghana, China, Pakistan, Cameroon and Ecuador!

Post Q3 Board Meeting Fun

After a great Q3 Board Meeting, via conference call, on Saturday, we took some HAWT team pictures, did some Business Plan revamping (getting more creative in our last quarter), and headed off to have some team funs at none other than the Ontario Science Centre!

Message from AIESEC US...

Hey AIESEC Canada!!!

AIESEC US just wanted to send you a quick note from south of the border to let you know that things are looking pretty good for us to hit 100 exchanges this month. Yesterday we just signed an account with PWC to bring in 30 trainees ASAP and we have 90 SNs on available status. We want to add an extra challenge to the mix and say that we are so confident that we are going to hit this 100 that we also want to make a bet that we will hit it before you do!  So, if you accept this challenge then whichever one of us hits the 100 exchanges first has to write a letter to the other country stating 10 reasons why we rock (letter to be read at a national conference). What do you think? Are you up for it? Despite all the challenges, it would be pretty cool for North America to do 200 exchanges in one month wouldn’t it??

- AIESEC US Member Committee

Hmm...let's not have to write that letter Canada! Let's 100!!!

Is coming...