The Untold Stories
Rotterdam, the second largest city in Netherlands. It’s located in the province of South Holland. In 2006 this city has an official total population 588.500 inhabitants. Recorded approximately 35% - 40% of the population in this city are immigrants. Besides called as “Harbor City”, Rotterdam also proved as Crater Candradimuka (Kawah Candradimuka) for future global leaders. Why so? Besides there is the University of Erasmus Mundus which is very famous, this is the city where AIESEC International headquarters is located.
AIESEC International is AIESEC Headquarters. Association internationale des étudiants en sciences économiques et commerciales or International Economic and Commercial Sciences Students Association. Until 2011, this organization present in 112 countries with 60.000 from total member, AIESEC the largest youth organization run by students and recent graduates. Focused as youth platform, AIESEC offers young people the opportunity to be a responsible global citizens, to change the world, to make a difference and get experience-skills that matter today.
Located in Teilingerstraat 126, 3032-AW, every day this building lived by (approximately) around 20 youths from various nations, backgrounds and cultures who are ready for being a representative of youth voices from all over the world. Since established in Stockholm 60 years ago, AIESEC has proved that they are reliable to competent global leader. Some of them are: President USA - Bill Clinton (AIESEC in USA), Alec Erwin - Ministry of South Africa (AIESEC in South Africa), Junichiro Koizumi - Prime Ministry of Japan (AIESEC in Japan), Mike Jagger - vocalist of Rolling Stone (AIESEC in UK), John Neill - CEO of Unipart (AIESEC in UK), etc.
AIESEC also has got an endorsement from United Nations as representatives of global youth voices, AIESEC also been widely believed to be a partner by 4000 companies in the world and most of them are multinational company. Some of AIESEC partner are: Unilever, Micrososft, PwC, UBS, Alcatel Lucent, Electrolux, Tata Consultancy Service, Nike, and etc.
In 2012, there has been a transition of leadership President of AIESEC International from Tetiana Mykhailiuk (AIESEC in Ukraine) to Florent Meiyi (AIESEC in Mainland of China).
More info: www.aiesec.org
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore via spanish harlem mona lisa
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Dear AIESECers,
One more quarter has passed on our way towards 2015. As we look at our report, we see much progress toward 2015, which opens new questions and areas to improve. We hope you will join us on the journey of exploring them.
Before you open this report, I would like to share with you some thoughts.
First, quality can only come with quantity. When we are providing experiences for young people, we sometimes see a gap in the quality of experience we provide. The easiest thing to do is to drop those experiences and say, I’m not going to do those any more. But then we provide no experiences at all. The right thing to do is to ask: How can I improve it? What’s missing? What do I need to evolve in my JD, in my project, in my entity, in my country to change it? Being responsible entrepreneurial leaders is not about doing easier things. It’s about doing the right things.
Secondly, we need growth! We can only become a global youth voice and be accessible to more young people when we are consistently growing in our operations and all our programmes and phases. To make it happen, we need to seek for the impact in all our projects and operations and growth will follow. That insures that growing numbers represent the growing impact we have created.
Thirdly, there is a difference between being a member of AIESEC and taking the Team Member Programme. Currently we treat many people as “members,” but they are not living team experiences in the 2015 context. That hurts all aspects of our operations.
Are all of your members working in teams? Do they have a practical learning environment to support their development and growth? How can we change it?
I’m lucky enough to say that since I’ve joined AIESEC I’ve been always part of different teams. Those experiences kept me moving and wanting to contribute more and more to this organization, as working along I could be doing anywhere. I could only find this type of team experience in AIESEC.
In short: Quality can only come with quantity. Growth follows impact. And our teams are the most important resource we have to keep AIESEC strong. I hope this leaves you with some food for thought for this up-coming quarter! My team and I are looking forward where this organisation can be brought by each one of us. We are AIESECers, and we are generation 2015.
Warm wishes,
Tanya Mykhailiuk
President of AIESEC International.
Recently, I often found the word “kepo” in twitter updates. After I explored more, this word appear not only virtually but also in real conversation so often. At first, I really don’t know what the meaning of kepo, it’s kinda new vocabulary that widely used by youth. When I caught every new vocab like that, sometimes I try to find the meaning using the sentence.
A: Why are you broke with your bf?
B: Dude, why the hell are you so kepo?! *bark*
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Based on conversation above, I interpret kepo is something like wan’t to know people business particularly. Hmm but I get in thinking, what’s the different between kepo and care?
Different, so much different. Care has tendency in positive, otherwise kepo has tendency in negative.
Literraly, kepo is such as an activity to do in order to know someone (and their business) or something in details. Usually, people who doing this called as a stalker. Why it has tendecy negative? Because most of people feels that stalker’s attitude is annoying and want to keep their privacy. And I have just know that kepo is abreviation from Knowing Every Particullar Object.
Nowadays, we live on social media era. Most of people use their account un-wisely. Sometimes their emotions uncontrolled so that they unconciously published and shares their private live but if people ask why, they act like they were ok. I think this is a source of kepo nature. But sometimes the result that they have got isn’t accurate and the consequences they got judge sotoy from the source who must be know more (hey, what the hell this word mean? sooo many weirdo new vocab)
In my opinion, it’s natural for some people to always want to know other people’s business considering we live on society and this is become part of the eastern culture who “care” and migle. Altough sometimes it entertain, assume that we are the most update people, or can be other people trust, but be careful! Sometimes it also can makes you feel so sad. Depend on the news content. Based on my free observation and a little bit self experience. Hiks.
To be honest, as an active netizen I also ever do this activity. But then, I try to think twice of this habit especially if I do it too often. Actually, what’s your aim by doing this activity? What do you will gain because of monitoring other people’s business which isn’t related to us? I feel that it just wasting time. Every person have their own life. And why do you pay attention to other people when you doesn’t pay attention to yourself? I’m sure there is something more important for you to care. The point is, don’t waste your time. It’s better to allocate your time to solve your own business than stalking other people’s life. Agree? ;)
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