RND 2007 in Monterrey

Conference was starting like general conference with one exception it started in Spanish and in last minutes Octavio asked me to be responsible for technique, presentations and I agreed. This task saved me from being sleepy during legislation part that was in Spanish and I didn't understand almost everything. All other sessions that wasn't facilitated by me was also in Spanish, that made this conference boring for me.



From legislation part I could understand that @Mexico has big birocracy. During legislation process they write a lot of papers and follow compendium very strict. In this part of conference we closed 1 IG because of not fulfilling minimum criteria's already 4th year.

Lunch in the first day was a bit too spicy even for Mexicans.

In the first day I felt that I'm in Mexico, because time management was very bad for sessions and first day was delayed for 1.5 hour. In the end of conference I made Knowledge Management session in English and they way I delivered it was very good and successful and in the end of conference many LCs wanted implement it in their LC.

Every participant of conference was sleeping in the hotel, that was 15 minutes by bus from the site. Hotel had room with 2 double beds, where were accommodated 4 people per room.

In the beginning of second day I was leading session about boards, what was OK and later was leading 2 more sessions about 2 national information systems in AIESEC Mexico.




In the evening of second day we had rancho party, where we went far from city center to some rancho, where we had food and a lot of latino dances. It was my second training of latino dances and I enjoyed a lot. But my level is far from Mexicans' level. Mexicans dance latino dances very well.

3rd day of conference was for externals and it was also in Spanish, delegates liked it. In the evening we had official dinner, that had problems, because it was made in one museum without roof, but by the beginning of official dinner started rain and we had to move everything to balcony.

From official dinner we went to club, where we spent very good time with live music, latino dances again and here I got more latino dances classes and I enjoyed party a lot. After we came to hotel at 3:30 am, I with one girl, who become friend of mine went for a walk and talked about our personalities, personal life to get to know each other better to be good friends. After it I went to room where was room party, they were playing weird game, what I decide not to play after 20 minutes and I went to sleep.

The last night I slept 2 hours and in the morning I had cultural shock, because everyone had to leave at 9:00 from hotel, but we managed to leave only by 10:40, because of delegates wanted too sleep and because it is Mexico and no one is in hurry anywhere. Last day was delayed 1 hour.

In the last day alreday new MC was leading legislation part, where MC plan ,we - 5 Directors was approved by general assambly and also distributed conferences.

When conference finished, very many delegates and almost full MC went to restaurant Siera Madre, where we were eating good food and drinking a lot of good beer.

Photos from RND after party http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergejs/sets/72157600752105121/



In the morning girls had difficulties to wake up us, because of tiredness after conference, but they managed and after 7 minutes we took taxi and left to airport and flight home.



After coming home, we directly started to move our flat to new place and we finished it at 9 pm, when everyone was almost dead from tiredness. Our new flat is really great and everyone like it very much.