a post for a special person... Alberto!

As you can see in my profile, I don't have a model, but still there are some people which I admire. Alberto García García is one of them!

This "middle size Sspaniss guy" from Asturias, north of Spain is just amazing! Just his presence can change the mood and atmosphere into a funny and positive one! Lots of time he just went to the upset people and make them smile saying "Alegria!" or "C'est la vie!" "It's just... like that!" ... smiling.

He helped us with lots of things, he shared his friends, his personal network of people from the Spanish Embassy with us, he didn't said "No" not even once when we asked him something, he just helps without a specific interest. Maybe because of his international experience, maybe because of his nature... who cares... for us he is like a big brother :) who rise your optimism and joy just looking into his eyes!

Here is a picture of us, after sharing a Porto wine...

here's his facebook profile...

my bye bye presentation

I didn't want to leave without leaving something... so at least I left some information about Romania. I want to thank to everyone who came, I was really happy to see there Diana (of course), Alberto, Gonçalo, Tiago, Sofia and 4 new members of AIESEC Catolica: André, Andreia, Magda and Marta.

I think they liked it, although it was a lot of information...

André, Gonçalo, Andreia, Marta, Magda, Diana, Alberto, myself, Tiago

I used again as support for the presentation the ppt made by WWC team coached by Dragos in 2005, after that, as a bonus I spoke about gypsies minority (origin, history, culture, nowadays reality in Romania and Europe). Lots of information about gypsies minority, in Romanian language you can find on http://www.rroma.eu

Thank you again guys, and visit Romania! It's simply surprising! :)

got our place in Coventry

I wanted to find myself a place to stay in Coventry. I prefer this way, just to be sure that the location is good for me, I don't want to spend too much time on transportation. Here's the pictures of our new house... at least what i received on my email:

RIMT Catolica 2008

After one year we have been invited to Catolica's RIMT, the conference I was chairing last year. This time I was only "party delegate", having as responsibilities just having a good time on Saturday night. At the party... just the usual things:

Us, trying to teach Mo Chi how to smile...

He tried...

Sofia was horny...

Mo Chi was smiling... finally! hm hm!

Tiago still thought that he is the LCP...

People having dinner... where Zé was eating a lot

People dancing...

Gonçalo did something... and he was proud of that!

And some people discover their karma's are compatible...

Another couple in AIESEC... Ruben and Saumya

Well, all I can say after that is that they have nice new members, they all look smart and have the chance to develop their skills this year in AIESEC.

Shot! Catolica! Shot! Shot! Catolica!

...and don't forget about the trainees!

Our picture on a BBC article

Do you remember Kris Mole? ... two posts down... well I had the nice surprise to see a picture of 3 of us on a BBC article about his experience :)


Here's the link of the article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/content/articles/2007/11/13/euro_challenge_feature.shtml

For more details feel free to visit his blog:
http://www.euro-challenge.blogspot.com

Thank you Kris for choosing us for that, and hope too meet soon in UK, after your adventure will be finish! :) You promised that you'll think to do another crazy thing after that... visiting us in Midlands!

Moving... soon!

I will have an industrial marketing internship at a company in UK. Still in Lisbon, got the work permit, got the flight ticket, got the appointment for the Worker Accession Card in London, searching for a double room with private bathroom in/near Coventry.

Here is the company website:
www.ndt-consultants.co.uk

and here is my job description, copied from AIESEC TN Form:

Department in which the Intern will be working				Sales/Marketing
Job/Task Description 1				Development of action plan for marketing in NDT sector DURATION: 02
Job/Task Description 2				Generation of target client's loist in 4 industrial sectors and their segmentation DURATION: 04
Job/Task Description 3				Generation of positive leads from 25 clients in each industrial segment. DURATION: 04
Job/Task Description 4				Promotion of company's products and services through various means. DRUATION: 8
Job/Task Description 5				Conducting product demonstrations, seminars, road shows etc. DURATION: 8
Job/Task Description 6				Direct marketing of company's products and services DURATION: 26
Details of the working details				Personal Workspace provided Computer provided Internet Access provided Other Conditions:The Marketing Intern will form an important part of the company's management structure. The person will be required to understand company's current marketing strategy and ascertain its current market position through interface with current client base. Marketing intern will be required to use the knowledge gained through understanding about company's market positioning to develop a new marketing strategy for accelerated growth of the company. Intern will be expected to work collaboratively with the management for this purpose. The intern will be expected to implement the marketing strategy using all the marketing tools suitable for company's market segment. This would also involve substantial work on direct sales. Additionally, intern will be expected to acquire knowledge of company's products and participate in / independently conduct product demonstrations, exhibitions, seminars, road shows etc.

Counting the days to 11th of March... excited about another country, excited about something new!