AIESEC El Salvador live!

last post

2008-08-03T13:35:00.002-06:00

This is my last post as president of AIESEC in El Salvador.
There are so many things that I would like to say, there are millions of things that I regret I didn't do, there are so many emotions going through my body at this moment.
I was talking to another MCP 0708 just a moment ago on messenger, we both feel nostalgia, we both feel that it was not enough being an achiever (0708 generation) we wanted to be part of the legends (generation 0809).
But at the same time… and this is going to sound weird… we both felt tired…

Some years ago a very good friend of mine told me I don’t wanna be part of AIESEC anymore, I am sick of this organization… Well sick is definitely not the word that I would use to describe this feeling, but there is this feeling… the feeling of being tired, “being there, done that”, the feeling of satisfaction because you’ve learned, because you’ve achieved, the feeling of frustration because you didn’t meet your own standards, that I could have done more.

(We MCPs have this joke that your successor is your child, so I have a son now, his name is Stefan Katz, he’s SwisSalvadorian, he’s stubborn, he’s motivated, he’s committed, he’s stubborn (I said this already), he’s tall, he’s white, he’s nothing like his mother… he’s something else…)

There is another feeling, the feeling that I am sure most mothers feel when their kids are giving bigger steps, the feeling of running after them when they fall because they are just learning how to walk, but at the same time, a good mother will let their kids fall, and will encourage them to get up, instead of the “too much love” reaction of helping them get up… that only makes them cry louder.

I will be there if you need me... just a call away =D

This post wasn’t supposed to be that long… (there is more in my blog: http://ethel.nomadlife.org)
My term wasn’t either…

I am free now, I am what I am, I am what AIESEC has made out of me, I am Ethel, I am an AIESECer, and I will always be.

Regards,

Ethel Nuila
proud MCP 0708
http://ethel.nomadlife.org/

Pure AMOR (again!)

2008-06-17T17:39:00.002-06:00

sesion informativa

2008-06-05T20:44:00.002-06:00

Está la oportunidad para 15 ESTUDIANTES o RECIÉN GRADUADOS o que estén a punto de graduarse para que realicen una práctica profesional en el exterior, en cualquiera de los 100 países en los que AIESEC tiene oficinas.

SESIÓN INFORMATIVA:

JUEVES 12 DE JUNIO

DE 5:00 a 5:45 PM

En las instalaciónes de la UCA EDIFICIO "D" En el AULA D17

más información en http://aiesec-esal.nomadlife.org

o en http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=23626656010

webposter: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aiesecelsalvador/2553097092/

Areas: Economía, Administración, Finanzas, Meradeo, Comunicaciones, Recursos Humanos y Desarrollo de Talento, Turismo, Educación, Enseñanza de Inglés, Sociología, Responsabilidad Social Empresarial, Emprendedurismo, Emprendedurismo Social, Desarrollo Comunitario, Ingenierías, Sistemas de Información e Ingeniería en Computación, etc.

I am an AIESECer - Ethel

2008-05-22T22:51:00.003-06:00

Ethel estudiaba su segundo año de Economía y Negocios en El Salvador cuando descubrió una oportunidad de liderazgo en AIESEC a nivel internacional. A sus 20 años, se convirtió en Presidente de AIESEC en Córdoba (Argentina), Ethel ganó experiencia práctica en el desarrollo de diferentes habilidades como hablar en público, liderar a un equipo multicultural y llevarlo a sus metas y, sobre todo, desarrollar el liderazgo en su equipo de trabajo.

“Para mí, ser parte de AIESEC significa tener un espacio internacional en el cual poner en práctica lo aprendido en la universidad, tener la oportunidad de desarrollar mis habilidades de líder, aumentar la confianza en mí misma y, sobre todo, desarrollar las habilidades de liderazgo de otros miembros de AIESEC”

Ethel ha tenido la oportunidad de representar a nuestro país en más de 10 congresos internacionales, ha viajado a más de 20 países y ha conocido a jóvenes de todas partes del mundo haciendo de la diversidad cultural el pan de cada día. El constante contacto con jóvenes de más de 100 países y territorios le ha permitido, además, mejorar sustancialmente su inglés, tomando en cuenta que nunca asistió formalmente a clases.

En los últimos meses, Ethel ha liderado al equipo nacional de AIESEC El Salvador a nuevos horizontes, logrando resultados del equipo y de la organización. Ello le ha permitido tener una idea más clara de cómo llevará a cabo su desarrollo profesional.

“Ser miembro de AIESEC fue la mejor decisión que he tomado en mi vida”

I am an AIESECer - Carlos

2008-05-22T22:49:00.000-06:00

I am an AIESECer - Cindy

2008-05-22T22:47:00.001-06:00

I am an AIESECer - Patty M.

2008-05-22T22:46:00.000-06:00

I am an AIESECer - Patty A.

2008-05-22T22:45:00.000-06:00

No Hay!

2008-05-16T21:34:00.003-06:00

The local committee of AIESEC ESEN in El Salvador hosted the event in which economist, and representatives of organizations shared their opinions regarding different aspects of the global food crisis.

The event counted with the presence of Ing. Manuel Enrique Hinds, recognized economic analyst in El Salvador; Carlo Scaramela, Representative of the United Nations World Food Program; Amy Angel, Agriculture and Enviroment manager of FUSADES (Salvadorian Fundation for Economic and Social Development), and Manuel Sanchez Masferrer Ph D. Professor of ESEN.

This event was a success!!! I feel very proud of this team and all the work that they are doing!

What are our alumni doing?

2008-05-14T23:15:00.004-06:00

We want to share the succes of one of our most loved alumni: María Luisa Hayem Brevé

We are proud to present María Luisa Hayem, alumni ofAIESEC El Salvador, who recently finished her Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), The Fletcher School, Tufts University, EE.UU.

Education before Fletcher:
BA, Business and Economics, Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios, El Salvador
Fields of Study:
Development Economics;International Business Relations
Experience before Fletcher:
Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the World Trade Organization and World Intellectual Property Organization
Languages:
Spanish;English;French

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/profiles2008/breve.shtml

My AIESEC Experience in India

2008-05-14T09:36:00.004-06:00

It’s kind of tricky to summarize the all the elements that took part in my @experience as a trainee in India. I’ve done so much that I couldn’t possibly write here all that I've learned, shared, seen and lived, but I suppose will have to do it as short as possible.

Time doesn’t exist here in quite the same way it does normally back home, it seems forever and at the same time, is never enough to enjoy all that it comes with its change. In just some months I was so lucky to meet lots and lots of incredible people, with different nationalities, cultures, religion and race, people that I'd never imagined I would meet, but who left a timeless mark in my memory and in my life with all the thing they tough me.

Living abroad, specially in India, can only be described as.... intense... from every perspective. From trying to figure it out which street has a supermarket, to know what to order from a menu in a restaurant, everyday can be a new adventure that is worth living; whatever would be monotony at home, as getting up, go to work and come back home, is never the same here.... you have new landscapes, new traffic, new ways to travel (as the famous “rickshaw” in India), and of course, new “international” friends that might be experimenting the same by your side and some other locals who will be always trying to explain you “stuff”.

The work experience is also great, you don't only get to learn things related to your career and a foreign language, but things related to life, as tolerance of the differences (which believe me, it never can be enough), fast adaptation to new environments (this one also includes weather hehehe), setting even bigger goals every time, and of course, also opens new horizons for you and reassures you that you made the right choice when you decided to take the chance.

Well, last but not least... you get to see all those beautiful places that maybe before have only seen on T.V. or books... travel around, mingle with the “real” culture, live, breathe and sense it all, take with you, and actually become one of those incredible lucky people who has really seen the world, or at least, part of it.

Yes!... I loved it!... and this will be one of those stories that I'll be proud to tell once and again to my friends, family, future kids and grand kids... will be that perfect memory that I'll cherish forever, and that got 'cause I took my chance... now it's up to you to look for your chances, and actually do something about it... believe me, you won't regret it!.

truly @cer.... Marce!

Haciéndole frente a la Crisis Alimentaria

2008-05-12T21:56:00.004-06:00

AIESEC-ESEN

y la

Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios

invitan al foro

"Haciéndole Frente a la Crisis Alimentaria"

- Manuel Enrique Hinds. Analista Económico.
- Carlo Scaramelia. Representante del Programa Mundial de Alimentos (ONU)
- Amy Angel, Gerente de Medio ambiente y Agricultura (FUSADES)
- Manuel Sánchez Masferrer, Catedrático ESEN.

Jueves 15 de mayo de 2008
5:00 pm
Autitorium de la Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios

Costo: $0.00

RSVP: 2234-9230 o a elsalvador(arroba)aiesec.net

It was some time ago, but it feels like yesterday

2008-05-11T11:29:00.000-06:00

Last year, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of AIESEC in El Salvador. This kind of celebration wouldn’t be complete if we don’t recognize what AIESEC did in the past, how AIESEC changed lives in the past.
This blog will contain the experiences of AIESEC from all over the world coming to El Salvador or salvadorian abroad, but it will also contain examples of AIESECers who came to El Salvador before.
This is a very cool video from L.Largo, a trainee form Colombia who came here to work for Plastymet S.A. in 2001.

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EB National Meeting

2008-05-07T00:50:00.001-06:00

Mario (MC VP Talent Management 0708 AIESEC El Salvador), Cindy (MC applicant 0809), Pichi (President AIESEC ESEN 0809), Kike (LC VP InComing eXchange ESEN 0809), Tutu (LC VP Learning Activities ESEN 0809), Roxi (LC VP InComing eXchange UCA 0809), Roger (President AIESEC UCA 0809), Edgar (LC VP Learning Activities UCA 0809), Kenny (MC applicant 0809), Ethel (President AIESEC El Salvador 0708)

Around the world, and back again

2008-04-17T22:30:00.000-06:00

You're most likely reading this post right now because 1) You're in AIESEC; 2) You're connected with @ El Salvador; 3) You're lost on nomadlife. All of which are beautiful answers, and I think we're going to get along great. My name is Katy, and I'm from @ Madison, in the beautiful state of Wisconsin, in the good 'ol US of A. I have a few stories for you, if you're willing to read on; about my incredible experience in AIESEC, Central America, and my brief yet meaningful time in El Salvador.

I found AIESEC by chance, three years ago, in my first few months at the University. I randomly heard about the info session that was going to be held later that day, showed up, and thought I'd give it a chance. Little did I know that my life for the rest of my University career was going to be defined by AIESEC. It would be defined by incredible people from around the world and by experiences that I probably would have laughed in your face in disbelief if you would have told me about way back then.

AIESEC life was easy to get used to that first year: new friends, lots of meetings, crazy dances, outragous conferences, new challenges, being called newbie a lot, hearing about wild traineeships, it all was so exciting!! Before I knew it I was applying for a VP role, and by my second year I had a team of crazy aiesecers all working with me to put on events on our college campus. Yea It was hard. Yea, I wanted to pull out my hair more than once. Yea I wanted to quit. Yea I learned a lot, Yea, I started to realize this whole 'building leaders' thing that we talk about oh so much. and Yea I had a blast working with the other VPs, and yea we had some fun parties in there as well.

So naturally I took a week off of school and jumped on a plane and headed to Mexico for AXLDS 2007. SSGN-GN I like it. I thought it would be a perfect first time-out-of-the-country experience. And ooh, how it was. You haven't experienced all that AIESEC has to offer if you have yet to attend an International Conference. Being in a room with passionate, motivated, talented, and inspiring people from all over the globe is an experience unlike any other. Have you discussed global issues effecting countries around the world, WITH people from around the world? If you haven't, figure out how you're going to do that.

A few tequila shots later, I found myself back in Wisconsin, remember- that fabulous city of Madison i mentioned before? There we are, now bring it in close everyone. It was during this magical month I searched my heart out for an AIESEC traineeship. This is another one of those Experiences that AIESEC has to offer, that should not, i repeat, should not be passed up. So 10000 emails, 399 MSN chats, and 2 skypes later......

I was in Guatemala. Three months was in front of me, in this unknown place and I was ready for the challenge but pretty much scared out of my mind. So day by day I got into it, I got into the food, the culture, the city, my job, i got into my life. And it was awesome. I was learning how to live on my own, how to depend on myself, how to survive in my skin in a completely foreign atmosphere. So a couple of months in, I find myself in a car with some crazy aieseco....

Crossing the Guatemala/El Salvador frontera and trying to convert my Quetzales por dolares. Oh, border crossings. CLARO was so nice as to send me a text message letting me know I was now in El Salvador, and i think my rates went up a bit..suckas. And for the moment of the story, you've all been waiting for; when we were driving in circles trying to find an icecream shop by the name..blue pop? Low and behold, who did we find? AIESEC El Salvador.

Before I knew it we were doing Tunak Tunak and were sweating up a storm..Man, it's hot in El Salvador! We spent the day talking AIESEC, writing up flip charts, talking, laughing, eating papusas, and enjoying each others company. I felt right at home.

Well of course it didn't stop there. Pictures will have to tell the rest of the story, but just remember, @ El Salvador is pure a.m.o.r.

Hope you've enjoyed my story... You're all welcome to @ Madison at any time, I'd love to hear your story. So let's start talking.

Until then,
Katy

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2008-04-10T23:11:00.001-06:00

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Our Roll Call

2008-01-30T07:45:00.001-06:00

San Salvador winning the Global Competition!!!

2007-10-31T18:41:00.000-06:00

San Salvador winning the RAISE MY TN Global Competition. With renewed energy, Local Committee San Salvador is winning the Raise My TN 3.0. This is a global competition divided in 4 categories, and San Salvador is #1 out of 86 LCs around the world competing in category D!!!!

Here are the partial results (October 23rd). The LCs which have smashed the results and come up as top scores in each category are:

9 LCs in Level A
India, Jaipur, 16
India, Chennai, 12
Poland, Warsaw, 10

10 LCs in Level B
Austria, Vienna, 9
India, Chandigarh, 6
Germany, Munich, 5

35 LCs in Level C
Bangladesh, Dhanja West, 6
Romania, Bucharest, 3
Cote D'Ivoire, Cocody-Abidjan, 2

86 LCs in Level D
El Salvador, San Salvador, 5
Romania, Craiova, 3
Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2
Greece, University of Macedonia, 2
Serbia, Subotica, 2
Serbia, Nis, 2
Tunisia, THYNA, 2
Tunisia, Carthage, 2
Mainland China, Tianjin, 2

Check out the complete results here

Dinner with some alumni

2007-10-24T22:06:00.000-06:00

As part of our 10th anniversary week of celebrations; las night we enjoyed some time with two of our alumni: Luis and Christian, they shared with us how was like celebrating the 50th anniversary of AIESEC and how this learning experience was a key for their future development =D.

Thanks for sharing with us

Global Village 2007

2007-10-20T23:18:00.000-06:00

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we decided to spend the whole week celebrating, we planned to start with a Global Village, but since we currently don't have enough “foreigners” to put all the stands, we contacted the embassies and they gladly presented their cultures.

It was sunny on Saturday morning, at 6:00 am the OC was already in the place putting everything together, and they worked all morning.

At about 12:30, just 30 minutes before starting the program, it started raining! We panic! We didn’t know what to do, we were about to cancel the whole event, but then, one of the newies came up with the idea of putting everything closer and the awnings close together so people wouldn’t be wet.

At the end, the event was great! We had the open speech from one of our favorite alumni, Beatriz Guillen (who is getting married next Saturday) we also had presentations from Ecuador, Argentina, El Salvador and Brasil with the “Compañía de Danza Ecos del Mundo” (a major dance studio), the Honduran embassy presented a singer, Rudy, a talented guy who came from Honduras just for this event. Then we had a rock band and we ended up with a batucada!
Here are some pictures.

Global Village Pictures

2007-10-20T23:15:00.000-06:00

OUR VISION

2007-10-09T17:35:00.000-06:00

AIESEC El Salvador and Honduras 2010:

Throughout the years, AIESEC has become bigger and
stronger;it has positively impact university students, organizations and communities in 3 major cities.

AIESEC has become financially suitable and has
increased its leadership pipeline to ensure the development
of the leaders who run the organization.

With two countries working together as one entity,
our organization is recognized, in our societies and in
our global network, for its high quality
membership and opportunities offered.

Our alumni are also recognized nationally and internationaly
by their achievements in live. The members put their best
effort to impact positively the lives of all of our stakeholders.

numerical goals

2007-10-09T17:01:00.004-06:00

Learning Day / Induction meeting

2007-09-29T21:48:00.000-06:00

We are welcoming the new members!!!!!
all of them selected for their qualities, all of them with true leadership potential!

Aventures in Turkey

2007-09-04T19:42:00.000-06:00

Cindy and I spent two weeks in Turkey and it was wonderful to be at International Congress 2007 with more than 650 delegates from over 100 countries. In this experience, we shared many good moments with AIESECers experiencing the same challenges that we face, and having the same leadership development that we are having.
One of the experiences that touched me the most was when we meet all these alumni and other people who after a successful AIESEC career are now starting or already in a successful career at important companies like PwC, DHL, Cadbury Schweepes, ABN AMRO, etc. or starting their own companies, starting their own NGOs, and being truly change agents.
Most important of all is to realize that I am following those steps; I am going for a career like theirs, it will all depend on the choices I make.