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Subject: Re: Plan
From: Alexandre LEIGH
Date: Wed, July 28, 2004 10:29 pm
To: oriana.torres@aiesec.net
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hi Oriana,

attached is the plan you sent me... i just added a few comments along the side,
along with a few clarifications. Otherwise its quite impressive, well done!

Will get back to you if there any changes to the agenda (i'll discuss it with kelly)
but shouldn't be any major modfification. Maybe point 2.1 and 2.2 could be merged,
since we discussed the motivations yesterday, although it could be grouped under one
heading.

For point 5.2, probably just go over main deadlines (the big objectives, or any
bottleneck issues) rather than action-by-action.....

Btw, no capoeira tonight :( i guess u didnt get to see the film that u were talking
about yesterday?

tchau

alex

MY NEW PASSION

I have a new baby, I have a new love!
Let me introduce it to you, her name is ARTEMISIA!


"ARTEMISIA is a woman´s first name. We imagine the foundation as a person not reduced to a single issue, but as a living, organic being. "She" might sometimes be contradictory, but always passionate, with a human desire to help other to transform their communities.Tha name remins us an institution is made uff of its people: staff members, supporters, fellows, grant recipients ... its structures are created not for their own sakes, but for the fullfillment of the human needs"

Isn´t this beautiful?

Ladies and gentlemen, ARTEMISIA is the foundation I from my AIESEC Regional Coordinator position I work for now! Just look at this values ... aren´t they sexy?



Guys, just go to their webpage,http://artemisiafoundation.org/novo/, it´s amazing, all of them are amazing.

I feel so proud of making part of this in a way, talking about expectations ... things that you never expected, finally end of making you happier than anything...it´s just so inspiring! I feel so challenged with the expected outcomes of my job, but rather than this, I´m so hungry of knowledge and this sensitivity of understanding the development world and working between people that throwed everything away to "try to fix this world", there where they think they can start doing it. I´m amazed and I just pray for keep surprised everyday.

FAREWELL

Thanks Levri for a fair FARWELL!
The ones that were there, where the one that made the year - Lev, Niki, Alo (hehe, I´m home and you are not!), Heinzl, Balint, Mate, Kristina ...

Yes, yes, yes I know it took me a long time to come back to my weblog but hellooooo! do you have a clue how busy you can be when you come back home after one year? Today is 31 of July! I arrived in Colombia exactly 2 weeks ago (15 of July)! And after spending only one week there!, I moved for one week to BRAZIL!
Right now I am in Sao Paulo, and I´m in love with this city, but ok, soon I´ll write about Brazil. Now let´s focus on some farewells/welcoming feeling ...

In few words, I really still don´t feel having came back home! I´m now in a totally new culture (well, the totally is very relative, is new, but is so easy to adapt) and it has been like jumping from the part of the culture shock curve when you feel estable to another cultural shock curve where you are in the "honeymoon period". I still need to saty a longer period home :) to feel back and maybe to start feeling real "reintegration symptoms"!

Anyways, even if one week, there are deeper things you can realize!

1) One I realized I´m still in love, actually never stoped, even if at the moment to love seems to be harder than ever. Sometimes I asked myself if I wanted to keep believing that I was in love or I really was. Answer was found.

2) I realized that I made it to gain weight! (allthough I think I´ve been loosing weight the last two weeks as well and actually not on propose, just as a results of more movement and STRESS!! - welmcome back real stress!). About the gained kilos :), let´s say 80 % of the people like it a lot, so funny, they say I look more "woman"! Other just say - "Look good, just work on your belly"!

3) Barranquilla is Barranquilla! freaking hot weather and cool night flair make me finally remember where I belong!

4) The leader is back! Could also feel how the "leading sister, daugther" position came back to me. Was nice not having it one year, you feel kind of with one responsibility less, but having it again proves so much the level of trust that your relatives have in you, wich is also a better feeling.

THE QUOTATION OF THE PAST TWO WEEKS SEEMED TO BE: "EXPECTATIONS REDUCE JOY IN LIFE", I came with many, not all have been fulfilled till now, but I can really feel how slowly balance is coming. Actually I regret that because overestimating my "coming back" expectations, I underestimated some of the last moments of being near to some people back in Europe I still believe in expectations, not to have them is to be like a ship without destiny, but at least someone made me realize to overestimate expectations can drive you crazy. True.

Specially after this week in Brazil, as said, I start slowly to feel so balanced, cause let me tell you ...

LIFE IS SO AMAZING! and all this world was just made just for US! Two weeks ago in Vienna, one week ago in Barranquilla today in Sao Paulo! Does the jurney have an end? I hope never!

It was a fair farewell. It was also a fair welcome.
Thanks for this ones!

SCARY

In 4 days I'll be arriving home ... scary ...


"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
- Samuel Johnson

"Home is where you hang your head"
- Groucho Marx

100 years NERUDA DE CORAZON

Actually I was not planing to write a post around Neruda, not even today, but just reading some headlines in EL TIEMPO, one of them made me remember that tomorrow, 12 of July is Pablo Neruda's birthday. For those that are not familiar with latin american poetry (or even universal cause he was Nobel prize winner in 1971), he has been one of the BIG ICONS in terms of literature of the world and one of my favourite artists.



What nobody would believe is that I know more that 5 of their poems by heart, which is not relevant at all, then finally I just enjoy more reading them, as if every time would be the first one. He was unique, and I just don't wanna spend time on trying to describe how I find his style, I just try to imagine what would have been the feeling of being the loved one of him or even the muse of inspiration of many of his poems. Neruda has been one of the best finding for life of my "devoted school learning hours", I critize a lot the fact that at school you are obligued to read books and engage literature in general, that at the age of 12,13 or even 16 you are not able to understand at all, and that only when you pass the 20, you remember why the book made sense. But coming back to the point, Neruda actually was the exception from this junk of books and authors. There are also so funny memories around "Poema 20", when the whole class had to declame it - will never forget the way MONICA VIVES, I friend of my from school did it, actually very good, but due to the level of inmaturity by that time, we never stoped imitating her.

Just wanna encourage to go to a vey good sire about the 100 years of him go to

http://www.centenariopabloneruda.cl/, it's a good one and very good sorted.

Neruda is the man ...
I like poetry a lot, actually I have was so impresed as some days ago I went back to all self written poems I have, some of them crap, but some of them very touchy, at least I could remember exactly why I wrote them and in which moment of my life ... it's a cool feeling, but somehow enjoy more reserving this "art" for myself, or maybe am not just brave enough to show my talent and expose it to the critics ... whatever, VIVA NERUDA TODAY!

"Yo nací el 12 de julio de 1904, y un mes después, en agosto, agotada por la tuberculosis, mi madre ya no existía." Empieza así uno de los primeros párrafos de las memorias de Ricardo Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, que vino al mundo en una pequeña aldea vinícola del centro de Chile y se convirtió en uno de los más grandes y populares poetas de la lengua española. A los 14 años, para despistar a su padre, Reyes halló en una revista el apellido de un autor checo cuya sonoridad lo atrajo: Neruda. Con un Pablo como nombre, aquel joven campesino se convirtió en uno de esos pocos poetas que al mismo tiempo seducen a los críticos y graban versos en la memoria popular: "Me gusta cuando callas / porque estás como ausente"... "Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche"... "Amo el amor de los marineros / que besan y se van"...

Everything

I can be an asshole of the grandest kind
I can withold like it's going out of style
I can be the moodiest baby
And you've never met anyone
As negative as I am sometimes

I am the wisest woman you've ever met
I'm the kindest soul with whom you've connected
I have the bravest heart that you've ever seen
And you've never met anyone
As positive as I am sometimes

I blame everyone else, not my own partaking
My passive agressiveness can be devistating
I'm terrified and mistrusting
And you've never met anyone who's closed down as I am sometimes

What I resist, persists, and speaks louder than I know
What I resist, you love, no matter how low or high I go

I am the funniest woman that you've ever known
I am the dullest woman that you've ever known
I am the most gorgeous woman that you've ever known
And you've never met anyone as everything as I am sometimes

You see everything
You see every part
You see all my light
And you love my dark
You dig everything
Of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

ONCE CALDAS CAMPEON and other football stories ...

Everybody is happy ...!!!!!!!
all Manizalitas are happy ...
therefore my boyfriend is happy ...
actually all colombians are happy ...
all nicknames of Colombians in MSN reflect something about this ...

ONCE CALDAS is one of the national football teams in Colombia, from the city Manizales, and it won the so called "COPA LIBERTADORES DE AMERICA" that is kind of "Champions league" for Europe!! Good stuff ah????

well ... football-mania is back - also in Europe the final of EURO 2004 between PORTUGAL AND GREECE is near! Two nights ago we were also watching (IN THE NETHERLANDS) the match between NETHERLANDS and PORTUGAL! Of course the dutch team did not make it - making a good bunch of AI people happy!

Here, coming back to ONCE, how they described it, CONGRATULATIONS :) !!!


ONCE CALDAS CAMPEON!!!!!!!!
¡Un título no sólo para Manizales sino para Colombia!

¡Qué noche tan grandiosa! La emoción fue total. Qué bueno para quienes tuvieron la posibilidad de vivir en el estadio Palogrande esta gran fiesta, este día inolvidable que se convierte en una hazaña para Caldas y para Colombia. Parece increíble, pero es verdad, a veces toca volver a realidad para creerlo, EL ONCE ES CAMPEÒN. Jamás se había visto tanta emoción junta, tanta euforia junta, tanta alegría junta y tantas lágrimas de alegría. El ambiente en el Palogrande fue simplemente sensacional, hermoso, único y especial.