Dear AIESEC Egypt!
It gives me great privilege to announce the newly selected MCVP Projects of AIESEC Egypt.
Drum Rolls (Salalem Style ;) )
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HEBA ZAGHLOUL current LCVP Projects AIESEC AUC!!!
BIG WARM WELCOME YA HEBA TO THE MC TEAM OF HENZO, MAGDA, AND I !
Can't wait to work together all next year!
For all those would like to congradulate Heba please contact her on heba.zaghloul@aiesec.net. Thank you to all the people that supported with inputs on this decision!
Warm wishes,
Dalia A. Said
President AIESEC Egypt 2008 - 2009
E-mail: dalia.said@aiesec.net
Skype: dalia.said
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Withdraw Ceremony Opening Speech
When I joined AIESEC two years ago, no one told me I would stand up on a stage and give the opening speech for an event I planned out myself. They only told me the same thing I read on every AIESEC document that ever goes through my hands: that AIESEC is the international platform for young people to develop and discover their potential. So for the past two years I have been taking on new challenges, learning and growing from them. And for the past 60 years, AIESECers from all over the world have been doing the exact same thing.
I am sure that everyone who is here today has heard of AIESEC at some point or another, so I won't bore you with the number of leadership opportunities, international conferences, or exchange opportunities that AIESEC offers in its 100+ countries. But AIESEC is not really defined by the global descriptor or the numbers you find on the first page of aiesec.org.
In fact, I am having a hard time describing to you what AIESEC really is and I think if you were to ask anyone in AIESEC, whether the people who are here today or others that are from different parts of the world, no one will give you the same answer of what AIESEC really means to them. So instead, I will just tell you what AIESEC means to me: it is the only place where I can watch people I know (myself included) transform into more confident and more capable human beings.
For example, last summer I spent so much time thinking, "what are the biggest problems in Egypt? Or, what are the most important issues in Egypt?" It was challenging. And it was scary because I felt I had all this control over something, what if I was to ruin it? So I spent countless nights in various cafes with numerous people until I finally found a topic: awareness about drug abuse.
I know when people want to think of the problems facing Egypt, the first couple of issues that pops into their minds are poverty and illiteracy, unemployment and inflation. But the biggest problems are the ones that go unnoticed. The biggest problem is that people do not realize that 12.2% of Egyptian students are not only using, but are dependant on drugs. The biggest problem is that there are over 439,000 regular drug users who are children in Egypt, and no one is doing anything about it.
I realize that my team and I are not the best experts about drug abuse. We are a group of university students who care enough about the society and the world we live in to want to make a difference. I stand here today with confidence, telling you that we did make a difference. We made a difference on the small number of people that have attended our sessions, but we made a difference nonetheless. Even the process of researching, contacting learning partners, and attending those sessions was an enlightening experience for us.
And I think the biggest impact we had was on ourselves and on each other. I have been with this team for almost a year now, and I can look at each and every single person and spend an hour on how they have changed and developed from then till now. This is what AIESEC does.
Our sessions are not there to convince addicts to check into a rehab. Nor do they preach to young people to think of their futures and to think of their health and treat their bodies better. They are there simply to educate people about the biological, emotional, physical, and psychological hazards of addiction. These sessions have been interesting to say the least and I am personally grateful for all the people who helped put it all together. I guess this brings me to the thanking portion of the speech. I would like to thank everyone taking part in this event: our sponsor Technology Universe, our caterers Euro Deli, our speaker Dr. Hany Seliman, and the band Salalem.
But I would especially like to thank my team of highly dedicated and hard working people who I am still in shock were able to put together an event so late in the semester and so close to their exams. And I would like to mention each person by name and thank them for their contribution because each and every one of them took part in making this night happen. They are Maha Eshak, Khaled Zikry, Asmaa Emad El Deen, Sherif Othman, Nardin Nakhla, Omar Rohaiem, Nader Ramadan, Hicham Zaidi and Fady Barsoum.
And also my team mangers: Heba Amin, Nadia Hegazy and especially, Heidi Awadallah, who is such a shy and quiet girl that you would never notice that she is main person behind the success of this whole event.
To be completely honest, the day so far has been a very stressful experience for me. But it has also been a learning experience, just like every experience I go through in AIESEC. And I hope you all enjoy the rest of the night.
I am sure that everyone who is here today has heard of AIESEC at some point or another, so I won't bore you with the number of leadership opportunities, international conferences, or exchange opportunities that AIESEC offers in its 100+ countries. But AIESEC is not really defined by the global descriptor or the numbers you find on the first page of aiesec.org.
In fact, I am having a hard time describing to you what AIESEC really is and I think if you were to ask anyone in AIESEC, whether the people who are here today or others that are from different parts of the world, no one will give you the same answer of what AIESEC really means to them. So instead, I will just tell you what AIESEC means to me: it is the only place where I can watch people I know (myself included) transform into more confident and more capable human beings.
For example, last summer I spent so much time thinking, "what are the biggest problems in Egypt? Or, what are the most important issues in Egypt?" It was challenging. And it was scary because I felt I had all this control over something, what if I was to ruin it? So I spent countless nights in various cafes with numerous people until I finally found a topic: awareness about drug abuse.
I know when people want to think of the problems facing Egypt, the first couple of issues that pops into their minds are poverty and illiteracy, unemployment and inflation. But the biggest problems are the ones that go unnoticed. The biggest problem is that people do not realize that 12.2% of Egyptian students are not only using, but are dependant on drugs. The biggest problem is that there are over 439,000 regular drug users who are children in Egypt, and no one is doing anything about it.
I realize that my team and I are not the best experts about drug abuse. We are a group of university students who care enough about the society and the world we live in to want to make a difference. I stand here today with confidence, telling you that we did make a difference. We made a difference on the small number of people that have attended our sessions, but we made a difference nonetheless. Even the process of researching, contacting learning partners, and attending those sessions was an enlightening experience for us.
And I think the biggest impact we had was on ourselves and on each other. I have been with this team for almost a year now, and I can look at each and every single person and spend an hour on how they have changed and developed from then till now. This is what AIESEC does.
Our sessions are not there to convince addicts to check into a rehab. Nor do they preach to young people to think of their futures and to think of their health and treat their bodies better. They are there simply to educate people about the biological, emotional, physical, and psychological hazards of addiction. These sessions have been interesting to say the least and I am personally grateful for all the people who helped put it all together. I guess this brings me to the thanking portion of the speech. I would like to thank everyone taking part in this event: our sponsor Technology Universe, our caterers Euro Deli, our speaker Dr. Hany Seliman, and the band Salalem.
But I would especially like to thank my team of highly dedicated and hard working people who I am still in shock were able to put together an event so late in the semester and so close to their exams. And I would like to mention each person by name and thank them for their contribution because each and every one of them took part in making this night happen. They are Maha Eshak, Khaled Zikry, Asmaa Emad El Deen, Sherif Othman, Nardin Nakhla, Omar Rohaiem, Nader Ramadan, Hicham Zaidi and Fady Barsoum.
And also my team mangers: Heba Amin, Nadia Hegazy and especially, Heidi Awadallah, who is such a shy and quiet girl that you would never notice that she is main person behind the success of this whole event.
To be completely honest, the day so far has been a very stressful experience for me. But it has also been a learning experience, just like every experience I go through in AIESEC. And I hope you all enjoy the rest of the night.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Because there are Plenty of Fish in the Sea
- Fish are fish, there are a lot of them in the sea and they are all pretty much identical. It's only when you catch one that you think it's a special fish.
- Fish die. Life goes on. You find new fish.
- Some fish have ears and they like to listen to their female counterparts. If you're in the boat long enough, you'll eventually meet one.
- You don't need a fish to make you happy; you just need any sort of fish to keep you from getting lonely.
- Sometimes when you're young and you don't need to settle down just yet, you can have fun with as many fish as you like.
- Some fish are just bastards. That's how life goes.
- When you don't have fish you have more shrimp (because shrimp are used as bait to catch fish, the shrimp can be analogous to your friends).
- Flirting with fish is always fun.
- If it's my destiny to catch a fish and keep it forever, it'll happen
- If not, I'll stay a virgin forever. I'm pretty sure I'll find compensation in heaven.
- But I'm pretty sure that fish will come along
- And when it does, we'll get married on the beach at sunset.
Written at 6:30 this Morning
Every time I think of a certain something I’ve been trying so hard not to think of because I have a marketing exam in two hours, my stomach turns. And why exactly is my stomach turning? I don’t know. I’m somewhere between being angry and being upset. I want to yell and scream and kick, but I have no one to yell at, scream at, or kick.
It angers me because there’s supposed to be a mourning period. There is supposed to be a period of disoriented sadness. And the fact that you don’t have that only proves to me even more that you really did stop loving me at a point and that never went away. It makes me feel weak and stupid to say this, but you never really loved me as much as I loved you. And as glad as I am that I fought for us for as long as I did (from December to April, I’d say) because at least I know that there was absolutely nothing more I can do, it sickens me, absolutely sickens me, that from December to April all you wanted was a way out.
You changed. California changed you, distance changed you, or maybe time changed you. I don’t know and frankly, I’m done trying to analyze this. I loved (and still do love) the person you were before California. I miss this person. I wanted to marry this person. There were moments when I knew that this person was everything I needed from this world. He still is everything I need in this world. But he’s not you. That’s why I feel sad and broken hearted. That’s why my tear ducts seem to give way at the most random of times.
But you don’t feel any of that. You’re already out flirting with girls right in front of my eyes. It makes me want to smash someone’s head with a baseball bat. Because it is impossible for someone to move on that fast. Even when I made that list on my blog, it didn’t mean I was over you, it meant there were certain things in my life (too many things in my life) that used to make me happy that started making me sad. You listen to Sia and you move on. The first time I listened to that album I felt like crying. Every time I listen to Day Too Soon, I cry thinking about what should’ve or could’ve (but really, should’ve) been.
When we kept talking after we broke up, it was painful for me. But I kept talking to you because I felt there was something about you that I will always love and because you became such a big part of my life that it would be impossible for me to cut you out. I never did it because it was “the right thing to do” and I never did it because a year and two months shouldn’t go to waste or because I had already spent so much time, emotion, effort, money and morality on you.
And as hard as it would be for me to cut you out of my life, the worst thin in the world for me right now is to stay friends with you while I am broken and bruised and you are in this state of what I like to think is denial because it makes me feel better about myself.
I really would have wanted nothing more than for you to be the person I would call to tell you that I told Norine Farah that I made fun of her without knowing her and that I apologized to her for it. Because there are some special things that I can only share with you because you would be the only person to understand me.
But for now I have to get away from you. You are just about 80% of the reason why I want to get out of here this summer. So I’m making a clean break and I hope you can understand this. This is my closure. So good bye. For now or for forever. I don’t know, but I guess we will.
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