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Recently Added:

1. Halong Bay, Vietnam (11/30/2009) (link)
2. Hanoi and Hoi An, Vietnam (11/30/2009) (link)
3. Getting in Touch with the World (11/21/2009)
4. LCP Elections Viña del Mar 2009 (11/21/2009)
5. Camping Crazyness (11/21/2009)
6. Running for LCP in US (11/21/2009)
7. Typical Day of Food (11/21/2009)
8. Arrival of Greek Trainee (11/21/2009)
9. Pocket Recruitment to Brazil (11/21/2009)
10. Spring Time in Chile (11/21/2009)
11. Fiestas Patrias- Independence Day (11/21/2009)
12. @ Conference Videos (11/21/2009)
13. The Porteño Lifestyle (11/21/2009)
14. Uruguayan Videos (11/21/2009)
15. Secret World of Mate (11/21/2009)
16. Into the Land of Argentina (11/21/2009)
17. Exams and Ski (11/21/2009)
18. San Pedro Salt (11/21/2009)

Soon to Come:

1. Adventures of Southeast Asia

Hey. So i'll keep this updated so you can see what's going on in Chile and all that jazz. I'll be here until December so i'll keep uploading posts every so often....chau.

Raley

Getting in touch with the World

I've recently come across some great videos that present some different perspectives on the world through the documentary. Enjoy:

VIDEO 1: Baraka (link)

VIDEO 2: Into North Korea


VIDEO 3: Home

LCP Elections Viña del Mar 2009

This was the LCP Elections of AIESEC Viña del Mar 2009 with the elected one being a Brazilian AIESECer from Florianópolis, Brazil. This was quite quite a surpise result in the sense that all of her campaign was done virtually. I had the same experience of running a virtual campaign for AIESEC Chapel Hill in October, but the other candidate that I was running against was doing the same thing (she was in Hong Kong). But also, I was in the LC for a year in Chapel Hill, so many of the LC members got to know me. Only 1 person from the LC here in Viña had ever met her personally. Quite a rarity in the world of AIESEC with a foreigner being elected LCP who isn't even in the country where the LC for which they are running is.

Camping Crazyness

PHOTO ALBUM 1: Camping Trip (link)

For my class of Mountain Sports, we spent a weekend at a national park doing a little camping as well as climbing. It was a good time getting up on the rock faces and getting back in touch with nature after having been separated for so long.

Running for LCP in US

I decided to run for president of AIESEC Chapel Hill due to the fact that I was looking to continue with the challenges of my AIESEC career. I would say it was kind of strange to have never met many of the people that were going to vote which meant virtual communication was the only form possible. After videos, applications, interviews, and debates, Chapel Hill chose me as LCP which I am very excited about for this coming year. I am almost positive that AIESEC is the only organization on campus where someone would even think about running for president from abroad. That is the platform that is AIESEC.

Typical Day of Food

Typical Menu of a weekday:

Breakfast (9am): Chocopix cereal



Lunch (2:30pm): Rice/Chicken/Cabbage with lemon/Sliced Tomatoes with salt/Avocado with salt



Once (7pm): Bread/Jam/Coffee



Dinner (11pm): Rice/Chicken

Arrival of Greek Trainee

Our second trainee of the year, Natasha Katsiouli, arrived in October to AIESEC Viña del Mar to work in corporate social responsibility with an NGO in Valparaíso, Chile. It was quite embarassing when she arrived because she was speaking Spanish better than I do and I had been in Chile for 9 months. The LC in Viña gave here a warm welcome at the Local Comittee Conference in Quilpué, Chile. This video was taken just hours after she landed in Chile. It was a surprise because we had told her that we were going to a friend's house, but the truth was we were taking here to the venue of the conference.