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)