Rotterdam or anywhere...

... Liverpool or Rome, so the song says.

Actually the weather is a give-away that you are not in Rome. It rains enough to be Liverpool, but it doesn't have the nice old buildings down by the river (yes, you may be surprised to read that Liverpool does have some nice bits, and even i as a Manc can admit that...)

he problem is that with its windy, rainy climate and love of 70s concrete structures, it could actually pass for one of many concrete jungles in the UK – Coventry, Milton Keynes… SO while on one hand I think I could be quite comfortable here, on the other it seems rather too close to home. I was actually in some bars tonight down by the river (happy birthday Navarette) that remind me of the Waterfront area in Nottingham.

Today was another great source of learning for me. We were finding out how to recruit a generation of @XP members, and then how to get them working in different Projects Based on Xchange. Yet again my feeling that the organisation and an LC within it can be run so simply, but for whatever reason we make it more complicated. In Switzerland perhaps this is due to tradition, I don’t know, but I really see that our structure is not very efficient. Oh well, perhaps this new generation of great members who were just inducted and then came to the Teamee Seminar to get functional knowledge will deliver the successes we have waited so long for…

Then following a tasty Asian dinner (something with noodles, couldn’t be more precise than that) and being disappointed by the unfairness of dessert (a delicious looking fruit salad that unfortunately contained a hidden army of bananas…) we headed out into the City.

We were joined by Floore, who is MCVER in the Netherlands (hope I spelt your name right…) who commented: “Isn’t it cool to be out with people from Holland, Spain, India, the US & Australia? I guess that’s the power of AIESEC.”

This week that power has definitely grown in my eyes. If only more people realised that this power is actually quite simple…