LC planning: trainees are invited!

On 1 of August all trainees of LC Irbid were invited for LC meeting. The whole day LC was discussing, planning, analyzing current state and building ambitious plans and sometimes even dancing for keeping AIESEC spirit. Maybe sometimes trainees were not so much useful, but we had chance to share our ideas as well.

LC Irbid, thank you for this initiative to build the bridge between aiesecers and trainees!

International Food Competition: 25th of July, S.O.S.

What do you think about, when you hear "International Food Competition"? Different cuisine? Many tastes? Preparation and eating? Something like this happened yesterday in S.O.S.

7 countries represented traditional food. Children from 10 to 14 helped us in cooking. Then professional judges tried each dish and defined the winners:
3 place - Canada and its tasty chocolate cakes
2 place - Netherlands and traditional fruit salad
1 place - UKRAINE and sandwiches

So much concentration by cooking!

Cooking

Cooking and trying

Games with children

7 countries: Portugal, Russia, Canada, Ukraine, Japan, China, Netherlands

Global Village in S.O.S. 15.07

We had a small and cozy Global Village in S.O.S. 6 countries, 5 stalls, 40 children from 6 to 14 years old. The flow of the event was very typical. We represented our cultures, showed traditional stuff, demonstrated music, played games and danced. The only difference from GV in AIESEC was the age group. We coudnt predict children behaviour. It was a BIG challenge for us! But in general trainees were satisfied, because laptops weren't broken :), and children were happy, because they didn't have such event before.

It is the first event, which we organize in S.O.S. In these 2 months we plan to do International Food Competition, International Sport Meeting, International Performance Meeting. We hope to see more aiesecers!

A Jordanian tale

My experience started in early October 2008, when I had my interview for an internship in Jordan

at the Jubilee School /King Hussein Foundation. A school that hosts the best and brightest minds

of the Kingdom and encourage them to take specialized courses such as nuclear physics, industrial

design and extra language courses such as Italian, German and Spanish. The school hosts high

school students from grade 9^th until 11^th.

I was selected for the internship, along with two more people, Kasun from Sri Lanka and Harpreet

from India; we were all going to be working for the school for four months in different areas.

My experience in Jordan had many nuances; from a not so charming welcoming at the airport by

Jordanian authorities (somehow they though I was some sort of Latin American drug dealer), to

meeting great people and excellent friends, going through great Arabic hospitality.

Living in Jordan can be at the same peaceful and relaxed and at the same time chaotic one you

step your feet on the streets. But after all that chaos you will find your way through the “sooqs”

with all kind of Arabic and Jordanian souvenirs, Arabic music and of course Arabic food: shawarma,

falafel, hummus and tea.

Jordan, as many think, is not only dessert, it has many places to see and to go, like Jerash, the roman city; Petra,the nabatean city and one of the seventh new wonders of the world, Mount Nebo, where Moses saw the promised land, Madaba a Christian city with many bizantine mosaics, Wadi Rum the dessert; Ajloun and Karak, ancient cruzade castles, Dana natural reserve; Aqaba the beach at the Red Sea, and of course the Dead Sea; just to mention the most important places.

But also, Jordan is in a central position to visit other countries, like Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq.

What are you waiting to come to Jordan? You will have the time of your life!

Cecilia Bravo

Jordan intern from Mexico.

Reception Party for trainees. LC Irbid. 11.07

Yesterday our hosting LC Irbid organized a reception party for the trainees from Netherlands, Ukraine and Russia. It was a small introduction and big photo-session! :) For this kind of events it is better to have an extra stomach: so much different food (jordanian, ukrainian, russian, dutch, even italian!).

I am amazed by these people: many of them have exams now, but they've found time to spend it with us. Especially servicing task-force team works really hard!
I arrived 10 days ago, but I already saw so many new places, got to know so many new people, found out many interesting facts about culture, mentality, religion! I don't think that I could do it without these people. Shukran, guys!