G, Oyunbold, and I met up with Nate on Wednesday morning to pick Pago up from the airport. (N and OB are AIESECers, N is alumn, P is MC VPP ICX – Member Committee Vice President of Incoming Exchange). His flight was supposed to come in at 6:15 am, but didn’t actually show up until 9ish. So, we asked Nate to bring his pc with him to the airport so G and I could use internet (which was still in super high demand then). I ended up spending most of the wait checking email and such. Pago’s plane finally landed and appeared, we caught a bus and came back to the flat. While we were out running errands later G finally got a call from the internet people asking someone to be home in 15 min because they had an operator on the way. By time P and I got back from NUM (National University of Mongolia) we had internet!! But, it’s not wireless yet. It’s still just a cable, but it’s internet. We are learning to share very well.
Thursday night we had a 2nd going away party for Roman with the AIESECers. We ended up sitting at the bar for several hours playing different conference type games and such. It was a lot of fun. I really like our group of AIESECers. They are a lot of fun. They are all super helpful and so far very eager to keep attending meetings through the summer and keep rocking on through AIESEC business. I am really looking forward hanging out, working, and getting to know them. They are a really cool group of kids.
Friday morning we went to take Roman to the train station. We were up around 5:30 to get him to the station by 6:15. The new MC and several AIESECers saw him off. I’ve decided that I prefer airport goodbyes to train station goodbyes. Airport goodbyes and short and sweet then you get to trek off toward security and get on with your travels. Train station goodbyes last forever. And, then those who are doing the seeing-off get to stand around forever staring at the ones being seen-off while the train warms up rumbles off. It’s a very long process.
Now we are officially the MC, not MC-elect of AIESEC Mongolia. As of Saturday. Scary business.
And, your acronym for the day: LR or Leadership Role. Part of the AIESEC experience in which regular members step up (usually into a role they are totally not prepared for) and lead others.
