AIESEC in The Irish Times

In the "Business This Week" section of the Irish Times, Irelands most read newspaper for yee foreigners reading, there is a great Article focusing on Developing Leaders and AIESEC's apprach to doing so. We are all very happy with it as we get 3/4 of the half a page article! January has been a good month for us so far. National Conference in 2 weeks and my replacement will be elected...time flies when you are working for no money!

GO METRIC DAY!

Yesterday was "Go Metric Day" here in Ireland. Yes we have finally changed the speed signs on our roads to Kilometres! Previously we had distances on road signs in KMs but speed limits in miles per hour. So yes we are finally truly becoming a developed country in 2005! Come on you boys in green!

Catch a rainbow!

Catch a rainbow!
Originally uploaded by eoinrouine.

Cool pic I found while putting together AIESEC in Irelands Reception Booklet at teh start of the year. Gotta get a pic with me doin that some day!

Made it!

Well Friday night was pretty cool. Went back to a nightclub called Tramco which I hadnt been in since my 20th brthday. Got well wasted with college friends, taxied it home at 4:30am and managed somehow to make my meeting at 10am.

Today was a day of rest till 2pm in bed and then helped a good friend of mine, Colm, get registered for an AIESEC traineeship. We were thinking of going to Toronto around August but we'll see where the wonderful world of AIESEC Management traineeships brings us.

My healthy eating and living pledge is slowly getting off the ground....had a lovely chicken and vegetable stirfry which had plenty of greens,including spinach which I never eat. I still havent got round to exercising much and the fact that my office is literally 1.5mins from my apartment doesnt help much. I'm open to suggestions here.

Dissertation Memories

Well yesterday I had a unusual but enjoyable experience. I was visiting my old University, Dublin Institute of Technology, to attend their AIESEC meeting and one of the members looking for inspiration for their thesis/dissertation had come accross a copy of mine in the library! I got quite excited by this as only the better dissertations are put in the library. So I went up to the library, sneaked in with one of the AIESEC members ID card, and went up to view the piece of work which gave me so many headaches last year! It was quite nostalgic indeed. In case she is reading, yes Karola yours was up there too, but mine was on a higher shelf :) I took a picture on my phone if you want it?

Today has been my usual long day in the AIESEC office...so far in the past month I have matched 8 Irish graduates to traineeships in Estonia, which is a good acomplishment personally and for AIESEC in Ireland. I still have another 4 to match by the end of the week which is gonna require serious rabbits, hats and pulling.

With regards to the "New Me 2005" pledge I have not managed to start a sport yet but I am sleepign and eating a bit better and have noticed I my head is a little less droggy. It is hard to arrange regular sporting activity when your work requires you 24/7.

I am heading out to a friends birthday bash on Friday which I am looking forward to but again work is interfering by having a strategy meeting on Saturday at 10am! No rest for the wicked I guess...

New Me 2005

Well I do realise that I have very few readers of my blog, probably due to the fact that I hardly ever update it but witht he dawning of 2005 I am determined not anly to turn over a new leaf blogging wise but also in the way I live. For a long time now I have not being eating properly, taking no exercise and in general not living in the best possible way. I have tried over and over to restart my previously healthy and active lifetyle without success but things have overspilled into me even getting fat in areas and getting out of the bed in the morning is a chore,mentally and physically. I guess writing all this up here will show my determination to change and keep a record of my pledge.

So my blog I guess for now will keep a record of my progress ,fingers crossed, in making the change my body and mind certainly needs. Wishing anyone who reads this a Happy 2005 and any support offered is of course more than welcome.