Life in Itapacerica da Serra

After I moved to hotel del Verde I stopped to write my blog L

But I will tell very brief what happened during next 2.5 months in Brazil.

So I moved to hotel del Verde and a little later we with core team went to watch Rodeo. Interesting thing happened when in order to get inside for free, I had to go in the microbuses with crew of some singer. When I was going in that microbus, we were going with police security around us. Interesting and cool feeling.

Then I went to Foz de Iguacu with main goal to prolong my visa and with other secondary goals like visiting Foz de Iguacu waterfall. I visited museums of birds, hydro electro station, I went to Puerta de Iguazu en Argentina and visited waterfall from Argentinean side, in the last day I met with my team member Meet Shah and we went together for couple of hours to Ciudad de Este in Paraguay. Trip was really awesome even taking into consideration that most of the time I was alone.

When I came back to Sao Paolo, in the bus to hotel Del Verde I saw nice girls with Japanese appearance and I decided to sit with her and get to know her. Finally I found out that she is also from AIESEC and also from CC team. Was great accident. After arriving to Del Verde I met many new people who were Team Leaders and finally I got to know Felix, who was part of my team. In the first evening we were drinking Argentian beer.

The pre stay in del verde was unforgettable part of my life and I need a lot of time to describe all of it. In few words – CC pre stay was containing of having a lot of parties, living in very nice place, eating a lot of tasty food, chatting with cool people from around 25 different countries, waking up by wake up team with innovative approach, having trip to Rio de Janeiro and of course a looooot of work.

Then came IC 2008 pre-meeting where stress started, when we were lack of beds for delegates, when delegates were complaining to service, but we were too busy with preparation of IC, to make any improvements. In the first nice happened something really bed. Somewhere around 2am, when short time before I went to sleep, Juan Pablo from Colombia was going to one of the small houses in the territory – they place where we were making check-in and where we had computers and some private laptops. When he entered the house he heard some noise there. He started to check and then exit 2 guys and showed him the gun and run away with backpacks. Juan Pablo started to run behind them and then he heard sound of shouting gun and bullet flight not far from him. He was Ok; nothing happened with him except shock and a lot of thoughts what is value of life. From the check-in house was stolen 2 private laptops of some CC members. Next day we had extra ordinary CC meeting to discuss the situation, to discuss how we can secure ourselves and delegates and how to deliver this situation to the delegates in proper way.

This was only very bad situation all other things were great.

During the pre-stay and pre-meeting happened something great that I knew will impact my life. I got results of my application to universities. Firstly I got to know that I was selected to study in Universidad Carlos III Madrid(UC3M), later on I got result that I was accepted also to Instituto de Empresa(IE), that was priority number 1 for me to study. But to be completely happy, financial issues was stopping me. UC3M cost 10,000 EUR and IE cost 33,000 EUR. So where to get money? So I was waiting for results of my application to scholarship to IE and finally after some negotiations and agreements I got scholarship that was acceptable for me and to my family. This moment were I was very happy, when I recognized my future – next step after Brazil is 1 year doing masters in Spain. The future is decided. Let's get back to the current moment.

In some of that days I tried to drive a tractor, it was nice new experience :)

Then we moved to Holiday Inn to deliver the legacy IC 2008…