LC Innsbruck, Austria

Updates about AIESEC in Innsbruck on Facebook

2010-04-10T21:32:00.002+02:00

Dear current and former AIESECers of LC Innsbruck!

I am proud to inform you about our new Facebook Fanpage which we will use in the future for updates about our LC and events!

I am therefore strongly recommend to become a fan of the Fanpage on Facebook in order to stay up to date!

With kind regards!
Markus

PS: Who rockz that house? AIESEC Innsbruck rockz tha house!

What's up with the blog ?

2008-09-24T20:00:00.003+02:00

What's up with the blog? Is there anybody out there?
Well, would be fun to read what is new in Innsbruck.

Anyway, if you have any technical difficulties or need permissions to write on the blog, send me a message. Just use the link above - click Contact Blog Admin.

best wishes
OLO

First week of the new EB

2008-06-02T22:51:00.001+02:00

Dear EB,

I wish you a brilliant first week of your term, followed by a number of other wonderful weeks, which are to come :-).
I wish you many ups & downs, lots of stretching and getting out of your comfort zones, because only like that you will grow and reach new dimensions.

I wish you to be able to (as P. Drucker would say) lift other person's vision to higher sights, raise person's performance to a higher standard, build personality beyond its normal limitations....

I wish you the most exciting year ever!

and never forget "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

Yours,
Sonja

Local Induction

2008-04-18T14:10:00.005+02:00

It's birthday time!

2008-04-18T13:58:00.004+02:00

15.03.2008: Tobias Birthday party ! :-)

Happy birthday Supergirl!

2008-03-06T19:23:00.005+01:00

Dear Sabinschn,

Im sure you would agree
It couldnt fit more perfectly
Than to have a world party
on the day you came to be

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday

I wish you another wonderful year ahead, where you will

truly see what sort of star you are :-)!!!!

Hugs, Sonja

UniBall 26.01.2008 :-)

2008-02-08T11:59:00.000+01:00

Vorglühen bei der Sabine Die Buabn

Die Madln

Happy New Year 2008 to you, LC Innsbruck

2008-01-01T00:01:00.000+01:00

2 Super Team Leader :-)

2007-11-23T17:49:00.001+01:00

Last Thursday (15. November) the CSR event (Nachhaltigkeits event) took place.
The organisation of this event has already started in my term and CSR team (team leader Claudia Mair) and Marketing team (team leader Markus Moser) were in charge of it.

The event was just fantastic: One professor and two companies were speaking about CSR and at the end we had a marvelous buffet (thanks Markus for raising all the in kinds!).

celebration time

Anyway, I wanna say that Im really proud of my team leaders and you two really left AIESEC in a BIG style by organising this event.

Thanks, Claudia & Markus, for making my LCP term unforgettable.

You are my STARS!!!!!!!!

Yours,
Sonja

University of Miami

2007-10-22T06:30:00.000+02:00

Hey AIESEC Innsbruck Members,

Finally I manage to post here in our blog about my year abroad at the University of Miami which is, I have to admit, the first blog entry of my life - so here we go.

The whole experience over here in Florida really leaves you speachless! We've got sommer the whole year round, the campus looks like a park and you have so many cool things to do that you wouldn't be bored one time in 10 years without doing anyting for your study. The first week here we had integration events almost 24/7 so that you know at least a 100 people to go out and make party afterwards.

Although there were some obstacles to take (eg. computer services that knock off your whole operating system and delete all your data right after having installed MS Office) Manfred (also from Innsbruck) and me are really enjoying the whole organization and our courses are really good. Although causing a lot of study work for us, the higher level courses equip you with very professional state of the art knowledge about business and economics.

On the weekends we go out either to the clubs of South Beach (which look like the ones in MTV videos) or to one of the house parties which are very common over here and incredibly fun (at least until the police comes which is also standard here). On the picture you see as having a barbecue at the beach what you can do basicly every day here :D.

The upcoming weekend I am going to a big music festival in New Orleans with a few friends to see BRMC (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) and RATM (Rage Against The Machine) - again awesome, isn't it?

By the way, Football is the single most important thing here at the UM as you can see at the photo beneath.

Unfortunately the next AIESEC commitee is a couple of hours away in Orlando, but mabe I can manage to see them at any event....

Finally, I hope to hear from you soon and will blog here again shortly. I am looking forward to get to know the new members you are recruiting right now and maybe see you around Christmas time for a Glühwein in front of the Golden Roof!

Yours truly,

Stefan

Post holidays mood...

2007-10-12T18:08:00.000+02:00

After 7 weeks of holidays I’ve returned back to Innsbruck....
I wasn’t even aware how much I needed this relaxation time, after a very intense LCP experience and a lot of stretching.

If I would need to I describe my holidays in a few words, it would be “the chill out time”. It was just amazing not to think of AIESEC for all this time… and now I really do need to catch up with all the changes…

The highlights of my holidays were the 25th wedding anniversary of my parents, together with seeing all of my friends, who I haven’t seen for a LONG time (some of them even 1 year)… Belgrade hosted many festivals this summer, beer fest, qualifications for the Davis Cup (Serbian tennis delegation qualified themselves for the Davis Cup and won matches against Australia – under the motto "one country against the whole continent" :-) ) etc etc etc…

I’ve also spent almost 2 weeks on Thassos… a beautiful island, which I’ve visited 4 years ago…. It was nice to be at home… to be careless again… and to realize again how much I love Belgrade and my country…

And now, after all this time, I’ve returned to Innsbruck (my second home at the moment)… and it was raining (of course)… everything seemed so dull… and the biggest reason for this mood is that my Supergirls are not here… Doris and Rosi are on ERASMUS in Russia and Sabine in Sweden on her CEED… Its weird how I sometimes tend to associate towns with people…and now when these people are not here then the town loses a bit of that special flavour it used to have… as a passionate cook, I would describe it, like eating a favourite meal without some spices which add that extra especial taste…

Girls, I’m missing you BIG time! And I wish you all the happiness in this world!!!!

Yours,
Sonja

AIESEC in Innsbruck Application form WS 07/08

2007-10-05T11:46:00.000+02:00

AIESEC in Innsbruck Application form WS 2007/08

Click the link for downloading the application form:

/Application%20Form%20AIESEC%20in%20INNSBRUCK%20WS%2007.doc

Enjoy!

See you soon.

Yours,
AIESEC in Innsbruck

Recruitment coming up

2007-09-20T01:09:00.000+02:00

Much is going on at the very moment in AIESEC in Innsbruck. Recruitment is coming up very soon and the EB (Executive Board) is working a lot to organise and coordinate everything.

Honestly speaking, it's not that easy to communicate as 2 EB members are doing an internship in Frankfurt, Germany, 1 is doing a CEED (AIESEC internal internship in another Local Committee in another country) in Goteborg, Sweden.

Thanks to the internet and skype we finally managed to agree on the data for Lecture Presentations, Info Stands, Info Evenings, Assessment Centre etc. That was quite a bit of work :-)

A busy time is coming up - AIESEC in Innsbruck is prepared, finally.

Stay tuned for updates after LCEM (the Local Committees Executives Meeting; an AIESEC Conference for the Executive Boards of the 4 Austrian Local Committees).

Random Pictures

2007-09-06T03:19:00.000+02:00

As Olo complained, here are some random pictures *g* Please re-read as well the old reports as I uploaded pictures as well.

The enthusiastic audience.
Official dinner + UBS Excellence Awards Ceremony

Zwischen 2 Rosen ein Stinker.

Meeting the Turkish MC and being envy of their office!

Shock

2007-09-06T03:17:00.000+02:00

Coming back to Austria I was shocked. When I left Istanbul it had about 28 °C. When I got up in the morning, I was sweating. After having a shower, I was sweating. During the day.... I was sweating. In the evening.... you name it.

When I got up today in the morning, it had about 8 °C and I could see snow on the peak of the mountains!!!

Study tour or no study tour - that's the question

2007-09-04T13:10:00.002+02:00

IC is over. And in the end I found another thing to complain about *yippiiii*

When I subscribed for IC, I had the chance to as well subscribe for a post-IC studytour (31.08. + 01.09.). Of course I wanted to use the chance to see more of the country, either going to Cappadocia or choosing the Blue Aegeon tour. Finally I've chosen the blue Aegeon Tour, including a trip to Ephesus, Virgin Mary's house, an ancient theater etc etc.

During the whole conference it was said that we should contact the responsible of the study tour for further details. I tried 4 days long and guess what ... the person was never there. And it's even becoming better. At the last day of IC they told us in the closing plenary that one of the study tours was cancelled because of to few interest. We should contact the responsible to get more information. ..... I would smile about it if I could. Not knowing if my tour will take place or not, I was looking for that person for 2 hours, running around like crazy. When I finally found him, he told me that both study tours were cancelled. Instead he wanted me to go to another study tour (which would have lasted from the 01.09. - 02.09.). Well, that didn't suit me at all. I had already booked my youth hostel from 01.09. - 04.09. and didn't want to loose one of those days that I was paying for. In addition: I didn't have a bed for the 31.08.!!! And what finally made me decide against it was that the only objective of the tour was to party around the Black Sea. Guess what: I had 10 days/nights of party at IC, wanted to relax and then they wanted me to go on a 2 days part while I wanted to do some sight-seeing.

Well, so what. I decided not to go to any study tour but to join the rest of the Austrian delegation in Istanbul (what I would have done anyway but not before the 2nd of September). I was lucky to find a youth hostel that had still a room free (while many were already packed with AIESECers :-) and we had a nice time in Istanbul. As I already knew all the sights from my last year's trip to Istanbul, I kind of acted as the guide, explaining some things ...

Today is my last day in Turkey, my plane will leave at 17h15 and I'm already looking forward going back to Austria. Peter left 2 days ago, Matthias left yesterday, so today it's just Vlad, Bene and me who are left. As said before I'm looking forward going back to Austria. What I really missed here was orange juice. Normally I have orange juice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Over here, only water or black tea was served. Damned... I can't stand water. It just doesn't have any taste *g*

Looking forward to see all of you asap.

AIESEC Ying Yang (Party and Work)

2007-09-04T13:10:00.001+02:00

Can you remember my article about day 7, or better said the WENA party afterwards? Unfortunately I just stayed until 3 a.m. As I've heard later on, I missed all the action :-) Around 2h30 it suddently started to rain. As it was a WENA party, of course no-one was disturbed by that. The party went on, just the Congress Committee kind of felt unhappy as the rain was about to destroy their electronical equipment (laptop, speakers etc :-) As they stopped the music, party people moved to the area around the fountain (see the pictures from my first day at IC) and started dancing around it in the rain. What an enthousiams (or could the alcohol have had a certain influence?? :-) Well, that was the time when I more or less voluntarily left the party, going to sleep. As said before I obviously missed the action as I've been told at the next day that later on people totally freaked out, having sex in the fountain!!

And that's not just it. Rumours said that around 50 girls tried to storm the boy's dormitories (you need to know that boys's and girls's dormitories were strictly seperated so that any sexual or whatever action could appear *g* Well.. didn't work out that well).

But of course we are not just partying as Olo assumed in his comment. At the legislation part of the conference our brave MCP Bene had to pass 107 motions before he could go to bed. Starting at 22h00 in the evening after the normal programe, legislation lasted till 06h40 in the morning!!!! No-one can say that we don't work hard in AIESEC.

Personal Experience

2007-08-29T16:45:00.000+02:00

I had a nice CEE party last night. One special thing that lasted in my mind was nice small AIESECer from Ecuador that I met during the party.

He just approached me to talk about cooperations. He was really amazed when I told him that that I know Yat Wang, our ex MC VP ER in Austria, who is now in Ecuador and lives in his city.
He then asked me out about EPs (exchange participants) and wanted to know how many I could send to Ecuador, telling me that he could raise any amount of companies that I need. He was quite disappointed when I told him that I don’t have an suitable EPs for him at the moment and that I would need some 6 months to organized them. However he stated that he has any amount of companies that I need if I just send him some EPs. Well, I said, I will do what I can and was wondering when he asked me “Where do you come from? You are from Sweden, right?” When I told him that I was from Austria, he almost freaked asking me if I knew Yat Wang. “Yes, I do”, I replied. His eyes were shining, when he started telling me that he knows her as well and that she lives in his city. He then switched over explaining me that this would be a nice opportunity for the 2 of us to talk about cooperations. He wants EPs and he can provide any number of companies that I need J Yep… it was a funny night with that small AIESECer from Ecuador.

Random stuff

2007-08-29T16:37:00.001+02:00

The 5 most used words on this AIESEC International Congress:

Place n.5: literally
Place n.4: tremendous
Place n.3: basically
Place n.2: amazing

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the winner is

Place n.1: random J
(and that does not just concern the Austrian delegation from time to time :-)

Day 7 party

2007-08-29T16:25:00.001+02:00

well, i just found another PC that still works. let's see how far I come with my updates.

What a shame, I almost forgot to tell you about the party on the evening of August, 27th. Well, as all the AIESEC world knows, WENA (Growth Network for Western Europe North America) is number one. Therefore: the party was …. Hm… looking for words… amazing.

It was organized like a global village with all the WENA countries having a small stand where they presented typical national drinks and food. We came along with Austria’s specialty: burning Mozart. If you wanna try it at home: take a Mozartkugel, split it in the middle. Take Stroh 80 rum. Put the Mozartkugel on a tooth stick or a fork and hold it into the rum for a second. Take it out, inflame it (yep, you heard right) and then eat it. :-) You might need to be brave for the first them. There’s a secret about how to eat them. You just need to put them into your mouth (even though there are flames) and SHUT YOUR MOUTH fast. Otherwise you’ll burn it. :-)

I guess you can imagine that our stand was crowded. After helping some people to have another amazing AIESEC experience, I just left to have a closer look at the other stands as well. I got first attracted by the French stand, who hosted a French kissing competition. As I’ve lived in France for the last year I felt kind of an expert and of course needed to demonstrate to the others how to do that J

Then I got hooked at the German stand. They had some Brause powder and Klopfers. I liked the combination of the sweet stuff that didn’t seem to have any negative effects. Indeed those negative effects were then showing up about 1,5 hours later and forced me to crawl back to bed at quarter past 3 J

Day 8 (2007-08-28)

It was hard to get up in the morning after, even though we had a “sleep in” phase. This means that the morning plenary was moved half an hour backwards in the agenda to give us half an hour more of sleep. AIESEC International definitely knows that WENA parties are the best J

Well, so let’s talk about that day. I was at the breakfast, I was at the morning plenary. Not bad, hm? I was well went to the introduction of the GN (Growth Networks) but as the following session was not that interesting to me, I was glad to leave during a short break and go back to bed for another hour just until lunch.

The partner workshop I did in the afternoon (1 with Electrolux on Negotiation and 1 with Ingersoll Rand on Branding) were good, were interesting. Unfortunately they just lasted 1,5 hours each, therefore it’s clear that not too much content was delivered.

During the whole day, I had some really good conversations and exchange of thoughts with the other Austrian LCPs, as well as with Vlad in the evening who really inspired me. Thanks again, man.

IC live, Day 6

2007-08-28T18:05:00.000+02:00

IC Day 8 (2007-08-28) (and 7 and 6 :-)

Yes, I know that I didn’t write lately (and by the way I already apologize for all the mistakes I will make in this text cause I’m not used to the Turkish keyboard) but there’s so much going on that I hardly find time for doing so (not even to sleep :-).

But let’s go back. My last entry was from the 25th of August, therefore I’ll continue with the 26th.

As I partied hard on the 25th, I just came to my room at 07h00 in the morning, waking up my worried roommate. No wonder therefore, that I didn’t manage to get up at 08h00, as I planned. I missed breakfast (what a pity), I missed the morning plenary (well that was no pity :-) and just arrived late for the Microsoft Partnership Launch session. As they closed the door to keep the latecomers outside, I decided to go to the HP Café to check my emails and then went back to the dormitories to have another hour of sleep. So they didn’t really hurt me with not letting me in but helped me catch up with some sleep :-)

The 26th was our History and / or Alumni day. Coming back to the session at 12h00 I had a very interesting session with some alumni from 1960 – 1979. Among others, Martin Bean, ex PAI and now Senior Vice President Education of Microsoft. Wow, they were really cool. Hearing how AIESEC came into existence in the UK, went on to the US and then expanded to all of South America was amazing. Just imagine a world without all of our digital devices. Imagine how they were “printing” letters that they sent to companies. Incredible. No mobile phones, no Internet. However, they managed to communicate. In the session about 1989 – 1999 there were some other great guys telling about the problems AIESEC had because of being in South Africa. As the South African apartheid regime was isolated, AIESEC faced problems because African countries wanted to close down AIESEC as it was still in South Africa. AIESEC stayed hard, explained their mission well and managed not to be closed down in African countries even though they stayed in South Africa.

It’s amazing to see how history always comes back. Right now, AIESEC faces the same problem. As it wants to expand to Israel, many countries in the Middle East region put pressure on AIESEC and threat it with being closed down in these countries. We’ll see if AIESEC manages such a situation another time.

After a discussion round with 2 ex PAI and 1 director of a growth network of the years between 2000 and 2006, the history / alumni day closed with the Engagement and Leadership awards as well with the Alumni Engagement awards.

Finally, in big ceremony seven alumni became members of the alumni hall of fame.

Day 7

Day 7 had a focus on Learning Networks. First I thought it might be just a boring day but in the end … wow, I must admit I really learned something and specially: I got some good ideas out of it. I had some nice input about things that could as well be done in Innsbruck.

I was in the Learning Network track about Information and Communication Technology. Finding out that there’s a large need for interns with a technical background in the major IT companies all over the world (namely Microsoft, HP, Alcatel-Lucent etc) showed me that our idea of recruiting technical students this year in Innsbruck was a quite clever idea :-)

But the most amazing moment of the day was the big wrap up session in the evening when all the people met in the big aula and all the facilitators gave a summary of their sessions. I felt really touched when a young guest speaker, about my age, stood up, declaring that since 5 years he is HIV positive. The insight into his live, not so much being afraid of dying but being afraid of becoming lonely was incredible. Explaining that he can’t get a live insurance in the US because of his being positive and that he can’t talk about his illness, not even to his family (!!) made me understand him better. His message was that it can happen to everyone, no matter if you are well informed about it or not. Being drunk one time, he explained how he didn’t care anymore about the warnings and that HIV can live in the same house, just the next door.

Day 5 (2007-08-25)

2007-08-26T00:07:00.001+02:00

Okay, probably I should really give you some basic input. IC means International Congress and it is the biggest AIESEC conference in the world. This year it connects 650 delegates from exactly 100 countries in Istanbul.
Concerning the weather here at the moment: it’s hot. Or to be more precise: it’s quite hot!! But as there’s a constant wind it’s however possible to survive.

Now as for today: today was really cool. They have a special LCPs track here, so I had functional trainings and meetings with other LCPs. Even though some of the input sessions were quite basic, I could take something out of other sessions as for example from the “communication” session where we talked about the new “I am an AIESECer” campaign that will be used for recruitment.

In the afternoon there were various tracks and as I had a free choice I took 2 sessions about Alumni involvement and Alumni Database. Afterwards we got the chance to have a first look at the new Global Information System of AIESEC that will be launched in November.

Guys, if they keep their promises, this new system will be a really cool tool. I’m looking forward to it, even though the migration from AIESEC.net to the new system will be a lot of work. But the concept is interesting. On the last day of IC we’ll get a more detailed insight.

If you are interested in the International Congress don’t hesitate to have a look at “live.myaiesec.net”. There you can as well get the output of the sessions we have here.

And don’t forget to have a look at the Vienna Blog. Martina posted a link to the video of the Austrian Role Call – the coolest Role Call of IC 2007. Austria performed “MfG” (Fantastische Vier) adapted to AIESEC :-D. Enjoy!!

Day 4 (2007-08-24)

2007-08-25T23:57:00.000+02:00

Juhuuuuuuu. IC gets better. Much better.
Developing leaders day was interesting. The group works in the afternoon, finding out what type of team worker you are, were real cool. For all that are interested: use google and have a look at “Belbin test”. In addition I liked the group case studies that we did.
In the evening there was the Turkish Night. Even though the program, consisting of traditional Turkish music and a traditional dancing group was not that thrilling, the party became interesting when a Turkish belly dancer came on stage J

Day 3 (2007-08-23)

2007-08-24T19:36:00.002+02:00

Partying till 4 in the morning made me tired. I got back to my room (had organised the key before cause my lovely room mate once again just took it along instead of putting it at the info-desk), undressed and tried to sleep but … my room mate was snoring that loud that I really couldn’t manage to fall asleep. I was turning around and around until 07h00 until he got up to leave for breakfast. So I got about 45 minutes of sleep during 07h15 and 08h00 before I got up myself.
Fortunately the programme of IC became better. In the, there was the really cool handover/takeover session of the AIESEC International team. The ex PAI, Dey was really entertaining when he talked about his term, his experiences etc. It was inspiring.

In the evening there was a LCP track, so I got to know some other LCPs and could start to connect. There are some nice guys J.
Instead of going to the party as the night before, this time I preferred going to bed as I really wanted to be fit for the next day to attend the “Develop Leaders Day”. And guess what, I even managed to sleep. *g*

IC Day 2 (2007-08-22)

2007-08-24T19:36:00.001+02:00

Clapping hands and knocking on doors the Congress Committee (CC) wake-up team destroyed my sweet dream at around 07h30. Wanna know what? Breakfast started at 08h00. “Why the hell are the waking me up by now?” I asked myself. Until now I still didn’t find an answer to that question. Anyway. I got up, went to have breakfast. If you now imagine that breakfast consists of a large buffet like in a hotel – no chance. Every delegate gets the same breakfast every day: I plate with a piece of cucumber, half a tomato, 1!! slice of sausage, 1 piece of sheep cheese, some olives and a little bit butter and jam. In addition you can have black tea or water and you are free to take some slices of bread. Wow, once more I was disappointed. No comparison to conferences in Austria where you have a big buffet where you can take as much as you want of anything you want. I guess we should do an inkind-raising training for the CC :-)
Then, Wednesday morning after the breakfast I was ready for the first session. We all were in a real big lecture hall, having the chair (a cool guy, ex President of AIESEC International some years ago) on stage calling all the countries to do a role call. Austria was singing “Schi fohr’n", getting same applause. At least we were more creative than many other delegations. At least 5 delegations were singing “Happy birthday” as a role call for some fake birthdays.

To be honest, the rest of the morning was quite disappointing as well. When I went to IC I thought that this might be a VERY cool conference where I get soooo much input that I can then use in Innsbruck. To be honest: the very first day already destroyed my hopes. As I said: the sessions in the morning were boring, repeating old stuff everyone already knew etc. It was that awful that I decided not to go to the sessions in the afternoon but better have some sleep. Seemed to be more valuable to me as I was very tired and feeling too well.

Concerning the rest of the day: getting up at around 18h30 I just had to wait for half an hour for dinner, had to attend another short session from 21h00 – 22h00 before the first party started. The theme was “sexchange” and AIESEC in Austria was of course very involved *g* All boys were at least (if not totally) dressed up as girls whereas the girls were wearing shirts and ties. Sexy Bene and me were wearing Dirndl, Vlad, Matthias and Amit were wearing skirts and bras and Peter was just wearing a scarf instead of trousers or a skirt J However, no one of the Austrian delegation managed to become “Miss IC 2007”. *g* Have a look at the pictures, we would have earned to win :-D

IC Day 1 (2007-08-21): Never ending journey

2007-08-24T07:33:00.000+02:00

Well, after a 2 hours flight from Munich to Istanbul and 70 minutes waiting at the Istanbul airport, the bus to the Global Village finally left. Just imagine me, having my real big suitcase with about 22 kg, my bag pack and still wearing long trousers heading to the site for Global Village. Even though the bus was riding real fast (Turkish driving style :-) we didn’t make it in time and the rest of the Austrian delegation was already partying. Changing clothes fast to wear traditional Austrian clothes (Lederhosen, Stutzen and a Trachtenhemd) I was heading for the party, joining the rest of the Austrian delegation. Tiredness was like blown away when I saw about 650 other delegates, wearing their traditional clothes, dancing AIESEC dances.

After some amazing 2 hours we all went to a conference hall to attend the opening ceremony. Hearing very “inspiring” speeches from PAI, MCP of Turkey, Major of Istanbul etc. many people were just sleeping as they were tired *g*. Finally, at around 23h00 I arrived at the venue (YETIPEDE University), still carrying my heavy suitcase, fu**ing tired and guess what: I had to wait half an hour at the check-in desk. (I’ve later on been told that the rest of the Austrian delegation had been waiting for more than 2 hours when they arrived on the 17th of August). So, around 23h30 I knew where I would sleep. Next problem: how to go there? The university campus is quite large and I had no clue where to go. Fortunately Karo took some time to show me around but..iIf you think that all my problems were solved by now: you are wrong. All the rooms at the dormitories are filled with 2 people but there was just one key per room. My key wasn’t at the check-in desk any more, therefore the Congress Committee assured me that my room mate was in my room. Standing in front of my room I found out that this was not the case. Damned. Where should I now find my room mate? Running around at the whole university campus with my big suitcase again? This was certainly not what I wanted to do. So fortunately one of the Congress Committee members finally opened my door – I was in. After a whole day, I was standing in front of a bed and looking forward to sleep. The room is not big, therefore I almost immediately found another problem: no toilet paper in the bathroom. Travelling half the world, being tired and just wanting to sleep, I did not even have toilet paper. It took another quarter of an hour to find again this member of the Congress Committee and to make him organise some toilet paper for me. “Toilet paper is handed over to delegates on Monday” he said. “Monday?” I asked. “That’s in 6 days. What do you guess I can do without toilet paper for 6 days?” “You can buy toilet paper here!” I was shocked. What kind of organisation was that? This is the biggest AIESEC conference in the world, there are 650 delegates from almost 100 countries in the world and there’s not even toilet paper? Conferences in Austria have a higher standard!! Well, after some time he then came back with 1 role of toilet paper explaining me that he’s doing me a favour. I guess you can imagine that I became angry by now. I was just glad that my room mate wasn’t there cause otherwise all my anger would have hit him.
Unpacking my suitcase I had the chance to calm down before he arrived around 1 o’clock. This Malaysian guy just thought that (as he didn’t have a room mate during the pre-meetings from 17th – 20th of August) he won’t get a room mate. Therefore he didn’t see a necessity to hand in the key at the info-desk when leaving the room. I kindly explained him that this needs to change by now before we got to know each other better.
At around 2 o’clock, 19 hours after getting up, I went to bed, feeling stressed and disappointed by IC for the first time as I had just expected a conference with Austrian standards.

It's scary in Peru

2007-08-16T22:25:00.000+02:00

As I read the news today, there has been strong earthquake in Peru. About 500 died, over 1500 casualties. It stroke mostly in cities Ica, Chincha and Pisco, where around 70% of houses are damaged.

Here are some photos. This can be shocking.

Hej from Sweden ;-)!!!!

2007-08-12T16:42:00.000+02:00

Hello AIESECers in Austria!!

I`m currently doing my CEED in Götheborg and just wanted to say hello to all of you. Hope you are all having a nice summer with some time for relaxation and enjoying yourself!

Here in Sweden the AIESECers are very nice with taking care of me. Tomorrow I`m gonna meet even more of them and I guess we will start working on recriutment - hey I`m excited :-)!!

So hope this message get posted...just wanted to give it a try...more of me and Sweden next week ;-).

Take care and have a nice Sunday
Your VP PD-HCM Sabine

Blog revival

2007-08-10T23:04:00.000+02:00

Heeeeeeeeeey AIESEC!

Way to long our Blog wasn't used. This is an initiative to make a re-vival.
Let's use this means of communication to foster communication inside the LC as well to keep contact with our Alumni and abroadies.
I'm looking forward to read all the interesting stories what you guys are doing at the moment, where you are, how you enjoy your holidays or how work is.
In case you've never used this blog or you don't know anymore how to use it, please have a look here.

Happy Blogging
Benni

Now a word from Olo:

The blog is now shiny and in new place. How do you like it?
Thanks to Dody G. from Nomadlife (actually from Silverkey, but that doesn't matter) we have new place for our LC's blog. Save it in your bookmarks!

ibkblog.nomadlife.org

best wishes
OLO

Thanx

2007-08-10T22:56:00.000+02:00

Hey Olo!

Thanks SO MUCH for all your help to put up the blog again and changing the host. Wouldn't have worked without you!

Greetz to Poland.

Benni

It's sunny in Peru

2006-11-22T20:27:00.000+01:00

How are you people in Innsbruck doing? If you're not sunny and warm, I'll send you some sun.

Read more about the trip here. And all the pictures you can watch here, here and here.

To be continued...

Bauernregel für Martini

2006-11-11T20:04:00.000+01:00

'Wenn um Martini Nebel sind,
so wird der Winter meist gelind'

Hallo @ Ibk,

In den Bauernregeln wird oft das Wetter prognostisiert. Die oben erwähnte Regel erklärt uns, dass Nebel relativ feuchtes doch mäßiges Wetter ist. Wenn also die Zeit um Martini bzw. heute noch mild ist, bleibt es den restlichen Winter so mild.

Sandy freut sich auf Winter!!! :)

Earthquake

2006-10-20T18:18:00.000+02:00

Today, I woke up suddenly around 5:50 a.m. I woke up, because I felt the ground shaking, as if a really huge truck was passing by. Fast I realized, that this was just an earthquake.

News say, that epicenter was some 200 km from Lima, around 90 km from the coast. Magnitude was 6.4 in Richter scale. So far no casualties were reported and loses are minimal.

2006-10-18T15:50:00.000+02:00

Hey @ IBK,

Sharing a message :)

water polo

2006-09-22T00:34:00.000+02:00

This summer I spend 4 weeks at home in Belgrade….

And the highlight was:

Serbia won the water polo European championship

(imagine the atmosphere in IBK when Italy won the Football championship and then multiply the atmosphere by hundred, thousand, million – then you’ll get a rough picture how it was in Belgrade when we won :-) )

Sandy's Birthday Party 18. August 2006

2006-08-20T17:05:00.000+02:00

For all those who missed the party, here some impressions :-)

Sandy and Benny baked
their first Sachertorte.
It was delicious!!!

Some guests became very creative…

The messages they wrote for Sandy:

Vor 31 Jahren kam ein Baby angefahren,
ohne Strümpfe und ohne Schuh,
liebe Sandy das warst du!!! (D)

Liebe Sandy,
Hope you are having a
wonderful birthday evening-
its fantastic here.
A very special flower for you! (S)

Liebe Sandy,
geniesse dein Leben beständig, den tu bist länger tod als lebendig. (V)

Other guests connected...

Benny and Christian had a very long talk and found out that they have a lot of things in common… so they decided to get to know each other more intensively…

... wondering what they have been talking about? (world issues? terrorismn? economics? politics? the influence alcohol have on some ppl? maybe even about one very nice, sexy, funny, inteligent AIESEC member???)

To sum up:

The food was delicious ( Thank you Sonja, Sandy and Benny!)
The place was really nice decorated and our hostess amazing.
We had a lot of fun!
if you have something more to say, post a comment!!!

PS: Ein Abschlusswitz: Eine graue Zelle kommt per Zufall in das Gehirn eines Mannes. Alles ist dunkel, leer und ohne Leben."Hu, hu!", ruft die graue Zelle.Keine Antwort."Hu, hu!", wiederholt die graue Zelle. Da erscheint plötzlich eine andere graue Zelle und fragt: "Was machst du denn so ganz alleine hier? Komm mit, wir sind alle unten!"

birthday child

2006-08-17T16:24:00.000+02:00

Happy birthday miss Fernandes!!!!!!!!!

And now one Irish toast

"May you have warm words on a cold evening,

a full moon on a dark night,

and a smooth road all the way to your door. "

So, enjoy your party!!!! cheers!!!!!!

Peru - foods of diversity

2006-08-12T02:15:00.000+02:00

Peru is a country of great diversity. With over 1.2 million sq km, it has such different parts as coast (Costa), mountains (Sierra) and jungle (Selva).

Today one of my coworkers has a birthday. And this is the reason why we all went to a restaurant, that serves very typical food from southern part of Peru – from Arequipa. This is typical even for Limaños.

The food served is among others: pig’s feet, cow’s udder, bull’s testicles (very tasty indeed), and my personal favorite, the cuy. I won’t tell you what is it, you will have to find out. But I must admit, it’s very tasty.

And drinks – one typical drink from that region (specially Cusco and Andes) is Chicha de jora, which is made from maize. And after food you can drink anis. It’s stronger drink, similar to Turkish rakı or Greek ouzo. And the way you drink it – you get a small bottle (approx. 10 cl) that is circling at the table. And it should be finished with the last person. If not the bottle is not finished, or gets empty earlier, you need to order another round.

And of course the most typical one – pisco sour. But let me write about it another time.

OK, and what would be the most "exotic" and strange food you have ever tasted? Share that in comments.
Or tell me if you have figured out, what cuy is.

Vorarlberg

2006-08-09T23:23:00.000+02:00

Over the weekend Kaisa, Sabine and me visited Benjamin, who was the perfect host and guide through Vorarlberg, lake of Constance and Liechtenstein. After visiting Vorarlberg I do understand why do other parts of country make constantly jokes about it: they are only jealous.

Vorarlberg is a little piece of heaven on earth!!!!

29.07.2006

2006-08-09T23:12:00.000+02:00

I want to thank you guys for such a wonderful dinner... it was a fantastic start into the new year of my life… I really do hope we will have more dinners together...

Yours Sonja

SEX I.D. - Find out how your mind works!

2006-08-04T15:36:00.000+02:00

Guys here’s the test that you were informed about finally

Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men.

I investigated a bit and found out some scientific explanations to it and here’s one of the articles that I came across online:

The sex of a brain is decided in the mother’s womb and depends, among other factors, on hormone levels. Higher levels of testosterone makes a male brain and oestrogen a female one. "The theory is that the sex difference in the sex organs develops early in pregnancy - in the first few months while in utero - while sexual differentiation of the brain occurs later in the second half of pregnancy and postnatally." That would mean certain factors could interfere with the sexual differentiation of the sex organs and brain in an independent way because there is a time lapse between the two.
(Link: http://www.atdforum.org/article.php3?id_article=174)

Here’s a link to find out the SEX I.D. of your brain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/print/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml

Something to ponder (funny) : D

I also found pictures of a male and a female brain and ya, it’s interesting to analyse in which aspects I would like to think more like a man :D

Your Psychology Guru for today …Sandy :)

HTML

2006-07-31T23:44:00.001+02:00

Im trying to post a newsletter with LC Innsbruck updates for month July… so Im fighting with html on aiesec.net… I have totally forgotten things I once knew, while studying computing in UK :-(…

Olo, can you come back? :-)

The real taste of Austria

2006-07-26T12:36:00.000+02:00

After almost 2 years of being in Austria I have never tried the Leberkas Semmel.
But then after the START conference, Rosi , Sabine and me had to catch our train to Innsbruck, and I was so hungry so I took the challenge. And after trying the Laberkas my comment is that it tastes like salami... but Ill try it again, so I can change my oppinion.

Sonja

Better than sex ... !?

2006-07-21T17:11:00.000+02:00

Hey guys, guess what. Imagine it’s a warm and sunny Sunday morning (16.07.2006) and I’m getting up at 08.00 a.m. “Why?” you might ask yourself, “Why is Benni getting up so early? Why doesn’t he enjoy his holidays and stay in bed?” Well… there’s a reason :-)

The reason is simple: Last year I got a gift coupon, and last Sunday I wanted to convert it. Together with my parents I went to Hohenems airport to do so. After filling in the question form, Robert asked me to think about one more question before we start. He asked me to tell him afterwards if our activity was better than sex. Then he gave me the suit, packed his backpack and we were ready.

Sitting in a small plane full with about 25 people flying higher and higher was great. Eventough it was just 09.30 the sun was shining bright and warm. And as there was not one single cloud in the sky I was able to see not only big parts of Vorarlberg but as well whole Liechtenstein and parts of Switzerland. The mountains, the green grass down there on the ground, Lake Constance,…. it was amazing.

Reaching 4.300 m above sea level Robert tied our bodies together and one final time I got my instructions: “Form a hollow back, lay your head on my shoulder and put your legs outside the plane!” One last view at the other people in the plane and then……… with an elegant double back flip, we jumped out of the plane.

Falling down, weightless, for 1 whole minute, 60 seconds long, was amazing. Wind is blowing into your face heavily while earth is coming closer and closer so fast. The pressure on your ears is hurting harder and harder and then, finally, it’s like you are standing still in the air when the parachute is opening. For another 5 minutes you can enjoy the wonderful view while you are gently hovering down to the ground. That was as long as Robert had the control gears of the parachute in his hand. :-) Handing them over to me, I fast found out how to make things more exciting before we were landing at Hohenems airport again.

Guys, tandem parachuting is … it’s…. Well try it out yourself and you’ll find out. Then you can tell me if it’s better than sex :-)

LC Innsbruck - Cricket Time!!

2006-07-14T12:22:00.000+02:00

From

Jamaica

to the world,

It's just love,
It's just love,
Yeah!...and this time it’s the Cricket World Cup 2007 which starts in Jamaica in March 2007.

After all the excitement experienced recently for the FIFA World Cup and having found out that the Cricket World Cup takes place next year, I thought of giving AIESEC Innsbruck my quick impressions into the world of cricket. Why to be ignorant right?..so read and enjoy :)

That’s how the main pitch of a cricket ground looks like:

Cricket is a sport with ‘N’ number of jargons (like AIESEC..hehe) and to name a few; bowled, ducked, hat trick, full toss, Howzat! etc. However, once you are familiar with these terms the sport is surely one of immense exquisiteness and depth. There’s no doubt that you are going to improve your English vocabulary if you get into this sport.

Countries participating are England, Scotland, Ireland, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, UAE, Canada and the Netherlands. 16 countries play the world cup, and the tough (meaning good) teams are Australia and South Africa, however, let’s see who makes it to the top .

There’s quite a bit of mathematics involved in this sport. You will come across calculations of the run rate, the batting average and what I normally calculated, were the number of ‘overs’ left and runs to made etc. :| afterall, I didn't require a calculator for that :D

Patience is a virtue…we know that through our AIESEC role call right? Watching cricket you will actually have the possibility to test your patience; after all, a match lasts for a whole day with the excitement growing every minute ;)

Just like the goal keepers in football, cricket has wicket keepers and there are always professional discussions around them, you know what I mean. Finally, meet ‘Mello’ the official mascot for the West Indies Cricket World Cup 2007.

Wanna know more about Cricket? get in touch with…

Your Cricket Guru for today - Sandy ..Howzat! :)

VP OGX in neuem Glanz durch SchönheitsOP

2006-07-12T13:52:00.000+02:00

Endlich wurde mein Traum wahr und mein Schönheitschirurg Dr. Gerhard modellierte mein Gesicht genau nach meinen Wünschen. Nun wird mein ganzes Leben neu. Das spüre ich....

Überzeugt euch selbst von der positiven Ausstrahlung, die mir mit dieser OP geschenkt wurde!

Vorher

Nachher

MC Take-over

2006-07-06T23:19:00.000+02:00

I spent my weekend in Vienna, where the MC organized the take-over party. LC Innsbruck representatives were Max, Christian Putz and me.

I took the 5 o’clock train from Innsbruck and after few hours of ride, I arrived to Mr Eloy Anello's lecture “Responsible leadership and its conceptual framework in a world that is in transition” which was pretty impressive.
After the fabulous lecture, we all went to Donau Island to challenge the MC… That was I suppose the initial idea, but at the end we got challenged by the MC with different AIESEC related Questions (e.g. how many fish in the aquarium survived the former MC- only 1 btw.). If we gave the wrong answer we got punished (you’ll see the pictures as soon as I get them from Max).

And then there was the soccer game… And guess what.. MC lost…

And after that, the take over party took place…which lasted until about 7-8 in the morning (including the breakfast)… I hope that the next MiSi you will see the videos, how did the old MC challenge the new MC.

All in all, it was a great day + night and we are looking forward to many more with our new MC!

~Sonja~

P.S. At the same time the Rainbow festival took place, so we went to see it all… and it was a new and shocking experience for me, I must say...

LK I in Innsbruck 2006/2007

2006-06-26T21:50:00.000+02:00

21. June 2006

Some impressions of our last local conference...

our new LCP
(you are sooo sexy- we wanna be like you!)

our chair
(San you did a real good job! - even if you wanted to go for voting before we had the possibility to make the Q&A session :-) ... we know that Daniel convinced you from the beginning ;-))

LC Innsbruck's NEW EB Member...

VP ER - DANIEL

Wanna some more photos???

To our CEEDer

2006-06-20T11:07:00.000+02:00

Olo, enjoy your stay in Peru. We are expecting some nice postcards and funny stories.
LC Innsbruck

LC Innsbruck going wild for World Cup???

2006-06-14T12:50:00.000+02:00

What happened last night?

1. Preparation for the Match

Brazil : Croatia

Meeting 3 hours before the game at Marktplatz!

Doris and Rosi applied their leadership

and positioning skills, so we got the best places

to watch the game…

(Girls you are amazing ;-))

2. The Match:
Kaka scored in the 44th minute! (Brazil gained two new fans ... ;-))

3. Celebration: Brazil won 1:0

While we were enjoying and celebrating (with Caipirinha) ...

... on the other side of town two of our members (Sonja and Sabine) were working hard for ...

4. The Surprise!!!

EB members had to do a lot of strategic planning... ;-) to get us to Sabine's Apartment, where Sonja and Sabine were waiting with a delicious cake.

5. FUN²

An amazing and unforgettable night!

PS: Thank you guys for the wonderful time!!!

A new gossip?!

2006-06-14T12:06:00.000+02:00

Have the Kandler sisters set their eyes on Wolf brothers?
or
Have the Wolf brothers set their eyes on Kandler sisters?

(the statements are open for a discussion ;-) )

2006-06-13T12:12:00.000+02:00

Marlene,
Happy Birthday girl!!!

Lets see what does yahoo horoscope say about your lucky day:

Quickie:
You may not know what the future brings, but a little mystery can be a good thing.

Overview:
You encounter someone who works entirely from their emotions and sensations. You, ultimate rationalist that you are, are thrown for a loop. Just remember that both your methods are equally valid.

Daily Flirt:
Someone you trust is keeping something from you. It won't be life-or-death, but it might get pretty annoying if you don't weasel it out of them quickly. Put that charm to work and see what happens.

For Singles:
Someone's playing games. (Could it be you?) While they're fun for a while, at a certain point it's even more fun to get all the cards on the table. If you want to move forward, quit bluffing -- or call someone else's bluff.

Career & Finance
Negotiations will be difficult -- unless you go in with the assumption that all parties have hidden agendas. You don't need to know the specifics as long as you know you're fighting on multiple fronts.

And Chinese horoscope writes:

Good luck will smile to you, so if you want to make financial investments, don't hesitate -- you'll make the most of them. It will be difficult for you to keep the secret that a close friend has just confided to you; but woe betide you if you betray them! A very favorable climate for professional writers and for all those who have something to write down. Agree to discuss calmly with your spouse; a good solution will then be found.

Have a great day!!!

your LC Innsbruck :-)

Take-over

2006-06-01T00:42:00.000+02:00

It's few minutes after mindnight, 1st of June. This means, we have New EB. Time to hand-over the LC to The New...
I mean... The New still has lots to learn. And I don't only mean more training in Boat Race (which they lost to The Old EB. See below)

Watch, how Sonja is involved in both teams.
[EDIT] If you cannot see the video, or YouTube is not working somehow, get the shorter video from here (hope my admin won't delete it).

I mean also some functional trainig, but they will get the rest of it in next few weeks :) And you have to give it to Sandy, they did SOOOOO much together during transition process...

Now, I'm not EB anymore [sniff]. Strange filling.
I never actually wanted to be EB. But then I came to Ibk, and became a part of it. We even won an award together. I never would expect that. But still, I will always remember working in that team, where each member was from different country and had different cultural backgrounds (Indian, Serbian, Polish, Swedish, Austrian).

I will be back... (Ich kom' wieder...)

best wishes
OLO

MC Transition

2006-05-25T21:12:00.000+02:00

Find 10 different details between those pictures:

Our own blog... Bon Jovi is loving it

2006-05-23T23:14:00.000+02:00

Hey Olo,

that's so cool that we have our own blog now. Thanks a lot. I'm looking forward to the comments of @ Ibkers.

Guys stay tuned.... Bon Jovi is going on rockin'

love
Bon :-)

Inspiration from blogs

2006-05-23T16:37:00.000+02:00

I have found some interesting resources on internet, on different blogs, and I wanted to share with you.

First of them is a normal blog. The guy is from India, works on HR and writes about people relations. This blog is called Human Resource Mgmt V/S Human Relations Mgmt.

The second thing is website of Robin Sharma. He is coach, speaker, trainer on leadership. There are two cool things on his website - his podcasts and his blog.
BTW, do you remember Mairi playing one of those podcasts on Opening Plenary on FUTURE?

AIESEC in Innsbruck Blog starts :)

2006-05-23T15:06:00.000+02:00

Hola AIESEC Innsbruck,

We start our first blog today and here we have the wonderful picture of all your LCPs from 2002-2007 taken at the National Konferenz 2 this weekend.

Hoping to hear lots from all of you at the blog....HAPPY BLOGGING!! :)

Lotsa love from your LCP ,

Sandra.

2006-05-11T15:39:00.000+02:00