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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Miami - and introducing my new "family"

I was in Miami for a couple of days last month, attending to an Endeavor Entrepreneur Summit!

Some highlights:

- Miami ... I really do not know if I was amazed or confused to see such a hispanic environment in the US ... it was so funny to talk to people in english (at shops, a taxi driver, etc... ) and see how automatically you rather get an answer in spanish ...!

- I visited Elias! (former President of AIESEC in Brazil and a great friend), great to know the trainees he lives with and of course his wife Fernanda. Also was amazed to see how different the life of an AIESEC trainee in the US is ... their house has a swimming pool, almost every trainee has a car! I mean, the city demans from you to have a car and other certain conditions, there is no other way, but it still looks funny!

- Shopping ... I know it's a latin thing to go to the US and shop, shop and shop, even if some things are exactly the same than the ones you find back home but ... I could not help tp do it at Sawgrass Mills! Florida's largest retail & entertainment center and relatively close to Elias' house where I stayed for 1 night. I can't deny it was cool to spend some time there, however expectations around Sawgrass are way bigger that what I found.

- Attended working sessions (speeches, interviews, panels) with amazing entrepreneurs, business leaders and academics (not all was play, I had also plenty of work with agendas starting at 8.30 a.m.!)

And last but not least, well the Miami trip was another moment to keep bounding with the people that since I work at Endeavor that have become my "2nd family" ... definitively the people that besides Javier I see the most every single day!