busy times....

Wow, its exciting to be me right now :)

This week I have been meeting all the AIESEC students in thedifferent Universities to finalise all their lectures andconferences they are organising on campus related to CSR, so I havebeen eating at all the different 'shitang' (canteens), and I cansafely say the food at my Unis is one of the worse (but thats causeall the foreigners eat at the restaurants on campus instead).

I'm thus chairing the event tonight, as well as organising all theevents, speakers, and coaching the students with their events, plusplanning the other activities. Its great, and very rewarding to seethem come along, be innovative and confident and so on (quite rare Ithink in china). I am also chairing the National Conference thisweekend. So 3 days of no sleep! But I am looking forward to it, asits a challenge; especially as it is essentially 2 conferences (1for new AIESECers, 1 for experienced AIESECers).

Noone knows I am chairing yet, so it should be a fun surprise forthem all. After 25 or so AIESEC conferences, now I am the one incharge of making this one go smoothly! woo hoo. I'll report backnext week. Anyway, I have to skip class friday morning and when Ireturn late sunday night, will have 8am class on monday as usual :(Then the important videoconference with Swiss Re in Zurich! andhaving to deliver a speech or 2 on CSR apparently next week, as wellas trying to teach some more.

Actually one of the speakers tonight is an important person from theUK FCO (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), who is the head of theGlobal Business Group (ooo, sounds good, doesn't it!)...hopefully ifshe is impressed she will convince her colleague based in Beijing togive us money too (as the colleague is waivering!)

Whats been up? Well Ralph (the Aussie CEEDer) has signed a superbpartnership with the Australian Chamber of Commerce for lots oftraineeships, Flic has returned from Bangladesh; Beijing had 3 daysof pollution so bad that the government warned everyone to stayinside, as it was actually 'at dangerous levels', the weather issupposed to go through a cold patch soon (boohoo), and the test waskinda pointless since we could finish it at home.

Otherwise I've been listening to the new Sterophonics album(downloaded most of it illegally, but it seems impossible toactually buy western CDs here legally, as they are not in shops, sowhat can I do? buy it online and get it shipped over? or pay todownload it legally? well, since I'd have to pay western prices forit, then no way!) and Coldplay release their new one in the Summer.I highly reccommend Counting Crows to everyone since I becameaddicted to their stuff recently.

Last Saturday me and Karen went on a trip to BJ;s suburbs with someunderwater great wall, a big lake, clean air and quiet countrysideto revise. It was great to get a way. If it wasn't for conference,I'd do the same again (over 20 excursions listed in the guide book!)

wooh, this email is tooo long. Anyway, the latest China-news isabout Japan's recent attempts to 'rewrite history' (or so thechinese and south koreans claim) by covering up their militaristichistory and downplaying it in a popular school text book. For thosewho are unaware, there are pretty big Chinese-Japanese tensions,since Japan invaded China a few times, raped lots of people andkilled lots too (not just in the 2nd World War, also inother 'invasions')....last year there were riots after the Asia CupFinal (Japan vs. China).

so better dash, I am busy you know ;)

Adam