Irina's arrival

On July 20th we woke up at 7 AM

Then we put an AIESEC t-shirt and went to Guarulhos...

We took with us a welcome package, an AIESEC banner, some yellow and green balloons, a brazilian flag, some funny things (like hats, necklaces...) and good humor and good mood!!

There, we had to wait for 1 hour for the flight to arrive...

So we were singing brazilian songs and getting into the mood to receive our first gringo in the team: Irina!!

When we were tired to sing brazilian songs we tried romenian songs... hahaha

People in the airport were looking at us with strange faces...

Can you imagine why??

Then, when Irina arrived :D :D :D

We surrounded her and...

"No meio da floresta tinha uma coruja! De dia ela dormia, de noite ela fazia: TCHU-TCHU!!"

WELCOME IRITZI!!!!

Then we gave her the welcome package, the brazilian flag... and lots of hugs!! :D

Look at her face... she really enjoyed the reception!! ;)

(actually she said that when she was comming, she first saw Mauricio - that was alone, far from us, for the people not to see he was with us - she thougth "cool, I'm gonna have a reception like normal people"... but then she saw us!! hahahaha... poor girl!)

Then, already at home... we had our first meal together: feijão tropeiro!! (well done, Gabiru!!)

Welcome Irina!!

Hope you enjoyed the reception!!

Hope you enjoy our team!!

Hope we have a very nice year together!!

Some random pictures... some random moments...

During transition...

The team together in the meeting room


Working in the meeting room... (how many hours did we spend in this room?? :P)


Flipcharts everywhere...


Yes... I said everywhere!!



They scared us!!

And then... after transition... We took them off!! We won!! ;) haha

Bárbara in Atibaia and Ribeirão Preto

Last week I had some very nice days with the people from @USP and Ribeirão Preto...

On monday I went to Atibaia, where @USP was having their planning weekend and also delivering a Discovery Days to Ribeirão people...

So, while they were planning their CSFs, I was taking care of Ribeirão's agenda... @XP principles, change agents characteristics, expectations about AIESEC, opportunities for AIESEC in Ribeirão, getting to know each other, etc...

The day was very nice!! Thanks to the OC (Maira and Fernando) for picking me up at the bus station and preparing me a special breakfest! :)

Congratulations @USP for the organization and the hard work! (I guess you had an excelent planning!) And congratulations for the FACI team that was able to handle 2 agendas at the same time!

And thanks for the good environment and the excitement you had all day long (even if you were very tired and had worked very hard the 2 days before)!!

In the end of the day I went to Ribeirão Preto with the guys from there...

After a very exciting trip (the driver couldn't see... and we couldn't move because we were in 5 people, 3 pillows, 1 food box, 1 laptop, 1 blanket and lots of luggage... but we could laugh a lot!!) we arrived to Ribeirão (a terra do tesão!) at midnight (and still had to prepare a meeting for the tuesday morning!)

On tuesday we worked a lot... we met a posible future partner, built the team's vision, talked about @ direction, identified ourselves with the vision 2010 and talked about how to work in Ribeirão...

At night, the guys took me to Pinguim (a very famous bar there!)... it was very nice! (see our happy faces in the pictures!)

On wednesday... more work!! Planned the first activities they will do if they become an extension, talked about organisational structure and had a training about project management (given by one of the GI members!)

We worked hard but, of course, we also had lots of funny and relax moments:

* playing the guitar and singing on the grass



* having lunch at "bandejão" (and drinking "yellow-flavored-juice")

* walking through the USP campus... with many trees, grass and lots of sun!

* and just enjoying being together (the guys are very nice!)

It was very nice to be away from SP for 3 days! Thanks @USP people and Ribeirão people!! You are great!! And I believe you can do a very good job (USP having their plan ready and Ribeirão presenting their viability study)

MC Pre-Plan

In the weekend July 8th and 9th we did our pre-plan...

It was the first input to our year plan, where we came up with many interesting ideas and consolidated a lot from our transition... also we started the action plan for our strategic map...

So... to do our pre-plan we went to USP, we got lost in the way :P ... but finally we arrived there!!

There we made new friends... (actually Rod made a new friend...)

We worked a lot...

We discussed ideas...

We brainstormed lots of ideas...

We worked on our Strategic Map... we talked about BSC, CSF, NFAs...

We arrived to conclusions...

And we had very good moments together...

And we left the weekend willing to do a really good job this year! ;)

PS: I need to discover how to upload videos here in the blog... we have some really funny videos... if somebody can help me you would be able to see how Rod cleans a room, how Gabiru cooks... (believe me, they have a really unique way to do that! ;) hehehe)

Transition is over...

June, 30th

Last day of transition

Current MC leaving... new MC starting (from monday on... it's everything with us!!)

Lots of learning during trasition period...

Lots of changes in our lifes...

* our team leaving our cities to come to live in SP... some of us finishing university, all of us being far from many people that are very important to us... all of us adapting to the new house, the new team, the new life

* the current team leaving the house where they spent 1 whole year... all of them starting a new experience (traineeships, new MC term, global/regional coordinators, going back to their countries)... all of them realizing it was an amazing year full of learning and changes in themselves

Lots of expectations...
we are really excited to start working, we have lots of ideas, we are full of energy!

Today we were sharing our feelings...
... we were rembering when we decided to apply (why did we do this choice? what did we think in that moment?)
... seeing if things changed from that moment untill now
... sharing what we want from this experience, what we expect from the team, from the work, from the relationship with the teammates, from the personal side...

We shared experiences with the current team...
... what did they learn from the year?
... which were their expectations? did they fullfill that?
... which were the biggest changes they had?
... what about the experiences they lived here? how did they grow?
... how intense was the year?
... what would they do different?

And doing this we had a very cool reflection moment...

very nice moment to reflect... to set goals for the year, set expectations about ourselves... and to see how will we work, how will we be this year...

We're about to start... a very good experience... a very intense year...

Our time arrived!!

Coelho, Rod, Gabiru, Mauricio, Iritzi, Juli and Deeptesh...

Let's have the best year of our lives!!!

It's really up to us! ;)