Thankyou!

What a beautiful network....

AIESEC has offered me so many opportunities over the past 3 and years to take responsibility for my future and my society, to edge out of my comfortable understanding of my capabilities and to do all this with an incredible group of people committed to leadership for positive impact.

In the past week, I have been lucky enough to experience;

- the gut wrenching nervousness of pacing a Thai carpark waiting for the call from Adelaide to announce the National team for 07/08. I cannot describe how splendiferous it is to think I shall be responsible for co-ordinating AIESEC Australia's projects for the coming year, working with Kate, Daz and Anne to build our platform back home and to further
explore the potential for Australia to work with the our community as the formidable social force we know we are. On On, eh, Straya?!
- Logistically organising a 90 person National Conference with AIESEC in Thailand. Designed to empower the next generation of Thai leaders to take responsibility for themselves, AIESEC in their country and the critical issues facing Thai society, this conference was a Herculean effort by an incredible team of people from Thailand, Malaysia, Switzerland, the UK and Australia. Weaw, Pui, Rob, Rina, Alex, Stefan and KJ, I m so proud of what we pulled off, it seemed such an impossible acheivement. You inspire me!
- Brainstorming the possibilities for AIESEC in Vietnam with the incredible delegates from Ho Chi Minh. Having only joined the network a month ago, these students we're ambitious, socially aware and driven by the need to establish AIESEC despite the legalisation obstacles facing them in a Communist country. Meeting these students made me realise again, what an incredible development actor AIESEC is; incubating creative, internationally networked young people to define leadership for their country. Good luck in the upcoming elections guys!
- Finally getting rid of any remaining stress with pizza, a hot bath and a Thai massage. Lovely! (as our Weaw would say :)

Logging into my computer now and back at work I am still riding high on the little things that make up the life of an AIESECer. I can read the enthusiastic emails of my friends back home who coming out of the conference are organising activity for recruitment on our Aussie campuses, I am supremely tempted by a mailer to attend a conference in Austria addressing leadership for sustainbility and my mind keeps drifting to conversation topics for our upcoming meeting with Ashoka.....

I think I shall now HAVE to move to www.nomadlife.org :)