Today we received 15 people from different countries to help for a global village in different LC to attract and impress those freshmen. Surprisingly, there are always people knowing Jonathan in Europe...

Today we are going to the radio station for promotion, we would be on Air :)

Tomorrow traveling around Skopje with these people, 3rd to Ohrid, 4th to Prilep until 7th.
then a lot of work to do for induction and selection, as well as conference preparation.

At the same time in the end of the month, I am going to Czech Republic, Prague for a conference facilitation.

then I will have my own conference in Macedonia. Probably will go to Ukraine for facilitating in December as I promised when I was in India.

My computer is broken, no Chinese typing anymore...damn it.

September 2008, is like a dream. A true reality exceeds all expectation I have ever made in my life. It starts when I finished my 2nd LC visit to a small Macedonian town Prilep, for the local beer festival and a music concert held by AIESEC alumni for different bands from Balkan countries.

And then I went to another LC visit - the undoubtedly most beautiful place in Macedonia - Ohrid. I home stayed with my teammate (Svetle), eating traditional food, really really fresh ingredient that just being picked up from the ground seconds ago and then ate it with the freshest taste ever. Simple, yet unforgettable, specially can shock a modern citizen like me from such a city like Hong Kong with huge isolation from nature.

Most amazing, I lived in the home town (Radoshda) of my teammate, it's a small village with around just 1000 people, located exactly near the Ohrid Lake, 10 seconds from the house, we can reach the lake. Swimming in the clear water where you can see your toes clearly, with small fish swimming around you, it's totally unimaginable dream place that I have been longing for since I was a child...

Visited different famous and oldest Orthodox churches everyday, I have to go back to Skopje and work really hard in Mc office for preparing recruitment and stuff because the next 2 weeks I would not be physically present in the office.

Romania. Here I finally came. Meeting with my lovely best Romanian friend Georgi, having traditional Romanian food, talking things in Hong Kong and Romania, it's like not real, am I still in Hong Kong or Bucharest? Living with the agenda manager Popic, we would have our conference in the next 6 days. He showed his passion to me, all about human excellence, I remembered a lot of my reading before I join Google, I realized that I cooled down my passion when I was living in India...(Job, parties, friends and stuff made me busy all the time, haha)

International Train the Trainer. Facilitating and training, such a professional conference that I realized a lot and learned a lot from each and everyone, from different moment and different places. Brasov, the most beautiful city I had ever seen!! (as I am so new to Europe, show me the best in your country my friend, Prague and Budapest are coming I knew :) Also friends from Romania impressed me a lot a lot. There were several Aha! Moments, as well as life lesions and loads of professional knowledge gained. Working with international team formed by talented and experienced people, really, it is incredibly awesome!

After the conference, it’s time to explore a little bit more about the Romanian people and the places. Staying in Brasov with all different places and people everyday, joining the LC meeting, hanging out all together, traveling around, it’s such a great moment to live in! Additionally, I went to the famous city Sibiu, that’s the first city I knew apart from the capital because I was living with a Sibiu friend (Catalin) in Athens for a month! Eventually here I am. Sibiu is similar to Brasov, you will just look at the architectures and keep saying wow wow wow, no wonder this is the European cultural capital last year.

Going back to Bucharest, living in an intern flat who is also a delegate (Stefan) of ITTT, feeling just like home. So comfortable with the place that I have been just once in my life, it’s like magic, my friend. Finally have to leave, while I know I will come back again, at least for another conference maybe.

Sofia, Bulgaria. Welcome to a place where I have completely no idea about. Arriving late for an hour at mid night, a member was picking me up, explaining to me everything is happening in AIESEC Bulgaria. MCP (Nasko) is so hospitable and caring, there is a conference going on in Sofia, MC office and MC flat, so glad that I can be part of it and made some inputs. Traveling alone in Sofia, feeling should be strange but nothing like that. I am feeling so enjoyable although physically I was so tired for the last 3 weeks endless working. I was impressed by the determination and spirit of the MCP, and indeed I learned so much from him about the management of Balkan people and AIESEC.

September 2008 is a Balkan month, is an unexpectedly great month. It’s like taking a path that you haven’t planned to go yet you finished walking already. Coming back to AIESEC is never be a choice that I would be regret upon, ever now the finance aspect maybe facing a little bit trouble, I knew I am going to enjoy each and every moment.

I learned something in ITTT from a very energetic delegate: when we wake up everyday, we have a choice, to choose whether today should be a good day, or should be a great day. :)

Thank you so much everybody, though my laptop is broken in Romania, my charger is lost in Bulgaria, doesn’t matter. Just enjoy the present like a gift. That’s why it’s called Present. :D

I believed every month could be as exciting and interesting as September 2008, if I am wrong, wake me up when my September ends.