Beeing in the organizating committee (SprinCo 2008 OC)

SprinCo 2008. A conference for the members of AIESEC in the Czech Republic. Last term I was in a lot of OCs mainly as site help. It was always a nice experience, but as I was mainly doing stuff in my AIESEC home country there was missing something.
After a half a year I was doing the job again, and I had a marvelous experience:
- working in a team with strangers, with whom I have built up a great team in a few days from nothing. Here I want to note, that AIESECers for me are never really strangers. There is always at least two things that make me work easier with them - they are full with energy and a goal (even if just a short term one) for which they are eager to fight.
- networking from the finest one. Meeting new people with whom I want to stay in contact with.
- interesting talks
- not enough sleep, cause I felt full of energy (haven't had so much energy in my life... still slept 3 hours/day), and didn't want to miss any opportunity...
- being appreciated, for a good work.
- feeling the spirit of AIESEC

And this all with a lot of fun. I'm not sure if I had such a good experience in my life before. I write down another list of events, so I will not forget:
- meeting an African by accident, who I was with 4 years ago on You!Can
- meeting friends I was doing OC work together
- 60th anniversary, were everything had to be perfect... still don't know why was "Death cab for cutie" played... :P
- singing in the night with unknown people playing the guitar
- OC wins topalky
- understanding how to be happy from my work, while the appreciation goes to my successor
- Ostrava! :)
- Jaromir Nohavice - Jezisek - don't you wanna dance, when you hear this song? A small 30 second vid here.
- Can I abuse you? (Mozem ta zneuzit?) - ezen percben engedd meg nekem e tettet, mellyel kezem testedre tekerem
- Waterpipe
- Saturday night fever - up till 7 am, slept one hour + 1 redbull, and was fit till the end of the conference

Afterwards I feel the need to change myself, to have goals, to miss less things in life by knowing what I want = goal setting session on the go.

Thank you OC SPRINCO, Thank you AIESEC OSTRAVA, Thank you AIESEC CZECH REPUBLIC, Thank you AIESEC.

Goodbye Klepo and Deny

Goodbye!

These two ppl were leaving last week, and I won't see them for a few months at least. Deny to Lithuania and Klepo to Pakistan.
I was a bit disappointed that Deny didn't make a private zeroth farewell party, with some old friends... or maybe she did, I just didn't knew about it. I was telling here this 1 1/2 month ago. Of course as in AIESEC always, you have too much to do.
And I was also disappointed, that I couldn't go with Klepo touring (they made a trip weekend into the Tatras), as I had a sprankled angle.

Anyway they hade a farewell party last thursday before Bazant. Around 20-30 ppl came. It was quite fun. I met an old friend, who I haven't seen for 2 years, and now she is with Klepo (poor them, as Klepo has to leave now :( ).
And I was talking alot with Medved about how and what to eat. We both read books in the last days about this topics, but from different authors. But the result of the conversation was that the books where talking about the same. Today the food we can buy does not contain half the vitamins and minerals the body needs, so it is important to start a diet.
In my book it was said, that today there is a quality starvation: you get a lot of fat and proteins, but the amount of the vitamins and minerals which enable your body to use the fat and the proteins is simply not enough. According to both or books a human should normally live 120-130 years long... So in the last days I try to get as many information about the food I eat as possible before I buy it.

But getting back to the main topic. I know Klepo now for more then 3 1/2 years and Deny for 2 years I think. I have a lot of memories with them, Klepo being the craziest guy I ever met developed during the years in my eyes to a person who thinks sustainable and creates respect very easily with his thoughts.
Deny on the other hand fascinated me at the beginning with her balance between work and fun. Which represents for me in a way the @ KE culture :) Being extremely responsible and on the other hand a friend.

I thank the world that I can count these people between my friends, and hope they changed me also to a better person.

I will miss you both! Take care!

Symposium about CSR

Here is a link on the basic knowledge: What is CSR?
I will quote the first sentence of it, as I find it contains the main idea:

"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept that organizations, especially (but not only) corporations, have an obligation to consider the interests of customers, employees, shareholders, communities, and ecological considerations in all aspects of their operations. This obligation is seen to extend beyond their statutory obligation to comply with legislation.

CSR is closely linked with the principles of Sustainable Development..."

Last weekend I was on a symposium about CSR (corporate social responsibility) and enterpreneurship in learning. I was focusing my point of view onto CSR as this topic follows me from my first year in AIESEC. And I believe that this is a topic worth to work with.
Well after my arrival I had several disappointing experiences, starting from the accomodation trough the organisation not even finishing with the chair or the first days agenda. I was looking forward for a conference which is organized on a very high level. Instead I was experiencing a regular conference which we have in AIESEC. Well in my eyes nothing special.

The first positive experince were the delegates from some foreign countries. I love to be in an international community. Or maybe just between new ppl who don't know each other.
The second day was fine, as the company presentations started. I was the whole day on the CSR track. Pontis Foundation, EBBF, ZSE, ABN-Ambro where the presentators who gave a basic idea of what CSR is and how the companies implement it, what projects do they make. I believe that most of the bigger companies already implement CSR in their programs. Some more infor on these organisations/companies:
Pontis Foundation
EBBF
ZSE
ABN - Ambro

And after these presentation we had a manager from the City group, who was having a workshop with us about CSR. He has a lot of practical experience and as CSR is his hobby he does as much as possible to spear the idea of CSR. We had a great workshop from an enthusiastic presentator. I don't want to go into detail. I will try to write some posts later on about my viewpoint on CSR.

At the end of the conference most of us agreed that the biggest problem in Slovakia, and Eastern Europe is the lack of klnowledge about CSR in the society, and that its necesity is not seen.

AIESEC

Hey ppl!

-> as most of my friends speak Slovak, but my nationality is Hungarian I'll write English :) Logical, isn't it :) <-

I would think the best would be to introduce myself first: my name is Peter, living in Central-Europe in a post communistic country (althrough when I started school we didn't learn russian anymore though I'm thiking of taking some lessons, at least I will learn their alphabet:)). Having a quite normal life, am maybe one of the laziest ppl alive. i think I have spend the half of my life before the TV and the PC (now quite addicted to The Elder Scroll III: Morrowind - after 2 months I'm master of the thieves/mages/fighters guilds, the camonna tong, the temple and the imperial Legion. The Imperial cult and the Telvanni are still missing, though I'm already the Nerevarine - poor ppl who don't understand a word of this :))) ... or maybe happy?)
Learning about information science, trying to focus on web development + database structures.
Need now a part-time job, so I'm not dependent on my parents (except of course the laundry :)), and have my personal freedom - I can go whereever I want. I would like to go abroad someday (in 2 years) to work and study the culture there. I always loved to understand different means of thinking - I have learned about modern whichcraft - see wicca and I've learned the old german alphabet, just cause...

I'm quite addicted /or was, I don't know/ with AIESEC... So there is now this research about MCPs :) Quite nice to say the least. At least no there is a written document about how qualified the big leaders in this organisation are :)
Research was lead by David J. Pollay.
http://www.aiesec.org/leaderresearch

Back to some normal stuff...
I have in my whole last 5 years the same problem, I know that I want to make something, I just can't come with the think it should be. I want to program something, but am mostly depressed by the idea, that I don't have a clue what I want to make... Frustrating I can tell... Will write if something has started.

So this is my first blog... hopefully I will kick myself hard enough to update it regularly (once a week or so).

Peti - Saso jeden :)