A few events

Marcelo celebrates in Brazilian style

Dean (me, British man) having a talk in a beer garden of the local bar with young people. The topic: Leadership Development. Actually very interesting to compare perspectives on the much talked of concept as I reflect on leadership in the UK, Switzerland and Brazil. (More on that in a later blog!).

Then we go to a Karoke bar (I don't sing). Me in a car with 4 Brazilian students and a French student sat on my lap... such is life for a young British man in Brazil.

But it is not all party and drinking (and bad singing). I must also work -

Wednesday, 10am go to School on a business park to meet a German AIESEC trainee and the TN taker (a school funded by the business park for children from poverty families). Discuss the policies and hopes of the school with the teachers and co-ordinator over lunch and show the children a little bit of my culture and more singing (head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes...)

Then, meet the Director for international relations at the Federal university. The LC here needs an office (they have no office, no phone, no PC, no well, nothing). Sell him AIESEC and arrange for him to promote AIESEC to the university directors next month. Tell him that if the university does not support AIESEC in the next few months the national team (me) will close the local AIESEC (he wants it to remain open). Suddenly I felt very powerful as the unversity professor listens to me carefully!

Then, meet AIESECers and run a reflection session on their time on AIESEC and I share some of my insights in living and working in Brazil.

Then go to a samba bar (the usual live music, dancing etc.)

The next day (Thursday) attend an EB meeting at 9am, then at 10am meet an AIESEC trainee who is really upset with the service she receives, arrange a plan of action with her and the LC. At 11am meet another trainee. At 2pm meet representatives from another university that wants to support the LC. Later that day meet the People Development co-ordinator, meet the whole EB and then the LCP. Finally travel back to Sao Paulo.