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3 Continents in one day...

Publicado por Pipe
martes, 11 de septiembre de 2007
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Santo Domingo - Paris - Istanbul
Back in 2003 I never tought I will have the change so soon in my life to travel to such amazing places thanks by my work...

Well 4 years later here I'm in Santo Domingo, living something completly unkown every day, learning every day how to deal with everything here, how to adapt myself to this great country, to this new lifestyle that is being MCP in a country with million of challenges but opportunities.

3 weeks ago, I was here, 8 hours later I was in Europe, in the famous CDG airport in Paris, 6 hours later I was in Yeditepe University in the asian side of Istanbul, facing my first AIESEC International Conference alone, as only delegate from Dominican Republic!

The conference was a complete hit! For everything except FOOD :(

But the great thing I at least I have one short day to get to know me better while I was walking in Istanbul but some Mexicans, Colombians, & Spanish friends...

The best thing I found about myself is no matter how complex I'm seeing things around me, someway somehow I always get the right people around me to advice me, support me or guide to do my own.


Thanks to many reasons, I've been around the right people at the right time...family, friends, aieseckers, entrepreneurs, all have been crucial in my development as the one I'm now.
Ligia is for example one of those! Working with her last year in Colombia was so amazing, and now seeing her in her role in Mexico & at global level, facilitating sessions to people for mora than 20 countries. Definitively she is one great example how means to have great people around you!!!
Ligis, it was incredible spent those days with you in Turkey.
3 Continents in one day to get so far away, another place, another sea, another relegion, another culture, the same friends, the same friendship, the same feelings, the same hearths...
One song says: "You are not when your body is, you are where people is missing you most"
That's where I'm...

MANGÚ, MERENGUE, MOFONGO & BACHATA

Publicado por Pipe
martes, 31 de julio de 2007
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Is incredible how hard can be change your way of living so fast...


One day I was in Bogotá, with cold, a lot of sweaters, jackets, hot water on the shower like the past 6 years of my life (Manizales is really cold too) & now I have 3 weeks of TOTALLY SUNNY days, there are no clouds, the temperature is in average 30° (in celcius)...

But met me share how amazing has been this experience:
As many of you know, my grandfather was a weiser man, he always say to me:
"Son, from breakfast you will how lunch is going to look like"
He was 100% right about that & how real is compraring it with life issues...

Well, I arrived here, and since the beggining I'm just seen opportunities here, every mornig I wake up feeling, breathing, smelling the great opportunities AIESEC has here!!!

People is fantastic,
Food; orgasmic,
Music; incredible...

The few people of AIESEC here & the Alumni made a "reception party for me"

DEAR LORD!!! just check the amazing food!






People that day were so happy to see someone new, to see a new attitude, to start again to have hope for AIESEC here, that I just felt myself like the luckiest man on earth!!!



Working here is great so far, but which makes this experience better is that there is everything to build, to create, to generate, I mean every single action you made you can see it!!!


I miss Colombia & my people of course, my bed, my food, my AIESEC in Colombia, my friends but I'm enjoying this every single second!!!

And I promise kee doing it all the 11 months & one week I still have here!!!


"Que tu no sabes que yo te canto todas la mañanas, una cancioncita al oido,
te arropo y cierro la ventana, para que tu no sientas frio..."
(Cancioncita de Amor, Juan Luis Guerra, Merengue)

A new life, a new country

Publicado por Pipe
lunes, 16 de julio de 2007
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Well, Finally I got to Santo Domingo,

As many probably know, I am the new MCP from AIESEC in Dominican Republic...

The history is really long, but the thing that matters is I'm finally here...


Santo Domingo is a big city, there are more than 2 million people here!!! Really at the US style, there are huge highways, a lot, but a lot of bridges, thesubway is under construction! They have here 3 airports!!!
But changing from Bogota to here is kind of complex, probably masny of you also know how punctual are things in bogota, well here is totally oposite, how cold is Bogota in wheater, here is totally oposite...

The weather is crazy, the sun is always there but suddenly there is a huge tropical storm with raylights & thunders...

I been here for 4 days, and I started to see why people loves Santo Domingo;
- Yeah, there is poberty.
- Yeah, there is chaos.
- Yeah the heat is amazing.
- Yeah, people are always late for everything.

But there some things other places don't have:
- A common tranquility.
- Happiness in their faces.
- Kindness, from the security guard until the the guy who sell you fruits on the street.
- Merengue, a lor of it, alll the places have this huge stereos really loud with this rithm.

So far this are the things I can say about it,
I'm just starting, but I'm really positive about my next year here!

"How to have a Healthy Financial Life"

Publicado por Pipe
jueves, 15 de febrero de 2007
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Last weekend coming from Cali (I spent one week there for coaching) I stoped in Manizales, the city where I joined AIESEC, my parents live there.


After a "Family Lunch", my father started a chat related with my future (quite popular for these days...) and how to raise my goals unitl 30s specially in terms of money.


I don't know from where he showed me a really old newspaper sheet (from 1994) where this writer was explainig about "How to have a Healthy Financial Life". Basically he create one model for measure sucess in your finances I want to share with your bloggers & friends:


Stage 25 -35: Definitively during this 10 years you HAVE TO BUY (not rent!!!) at least your first CAR and your PLACE (house, flat, car-house, anything!!!)


Stage 35-45: Definitively this is the time when you know if you are going to be really rich or not, is the time to raise your family, to see your childs grow, travel in family. But the most important is consider you are having a lot of demands in terms of money, but still you have to SAVE!!!


Stage 45-55:This is the time for Ensure your Pension, you have to start this since the very beggining but during this 10 years you have to be really serious paying your bills related with it, in order to get the required time for get it!


Stage 55-65: This is the time where you have to Shape & Get what will be the end of your days, how to live maybe as a Grandpa, as a Retired person, focus more than ever on your Personal Health & ensure an easier future for coming generations from your family.


I started to think a lot in this, now in Bogota, after this great weekend at my parents flat, things seems complex than the usual in this topic...


Obviously this writer is not 100% right, but at that time he had some interesting points, for example the one I got more interested for is the one related with our Pension, I never think in this as an option, considering in a country as Colombia for Legislation you have to pay bills for something like 1200 weeks (like 23 years consecutive) to get it, it sounds a lot od time for me, but after this article probably I will reconsider this as an option...


Now questions are around my head,

- What am I doing now in order to have a Healthy Financial Life?

- Do I have to have a Pension?

- Do I have to have a credit card?

- Do I have to increase my % of savings each month?


Let's see...

Finally Here!

Publicado por Pipe
miércoles, 24 de enero de 2007
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This 2007 started with a lot of extrange things to me:
- My first holidays from work! Just 10 days :(
- Take the challenge to apply for AIESEC in Colombia's President...
- Lose it and start to think what I'm going to do with my life...
- Realize myself this is "The Year" I should leave Colombia to have an International Experience in another Leadership Role or as an Intern.
There are so many great opportunitties outside, choosing The Best one is going to be interesting!

Why we, as aieseckers, always know what to do with our lives, but we don't have a clue what to do next year?

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