No more AIESEC

its 2 weeks after the rest of my team finished their term in AIESEC and I have almost finished mine. Actually the last real activity was Tuesday night -when a British AIESECer (Lucy) came here for a few weeks to help me and some Chinese students. Since then I went to the AIESEC conference for a couple of days to say hi and bye to people, and now am trying to sort out the future.

There had been a few other activities before that, which had kept me busy over the weekends and evenings. Tuesday's though was a bit different: our chinese members played a really big role and did a really great job -and we might now have found our role in engaging with external organisations. Good luck to the guys who have to do this and everything else next year.

For a few other random bits and pieces...
-the new MC office is great because of the cheap chocolate '99' ice creams downstairs, the freshly squuezed ice mango shakes down the road and the great free-delivery lunch place at the other end of the phone.
-the 957 bus, previously my favourite in all of Beijing (due to speed, air conditioning, convenience) has become a training ground for China's next Forumla 1 Racing drivers. It's happened twice so far. Each time 2 957s come along at once. Then they race each other to the next bus stop, but make sure they leave the bus stop at the same time in order to make it a fair race to the next one. Beijing's traffic is scary normally, now its just hold-tight-and-pray...
-the new AIESEC appartment is great because there are 8-10 people living in 5 bedrooms with a couple of living rooms and 2 bathrooms. Now that's real progress from our place of 6 people in 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom!
-I turned my feet into 2 big blisters playing football in unsuitable shoes during FuLP (Fun Leaving Party) -ouch, and damaged my knee cycling back from the conference (110 km in 4 hours 15 minutes, including 20 kms downhill -beating the outward journey by 15 minutes even with the injury!) -seems all better now!
-air conditioning uses up lots of electricity. It used up all of ours 2 days before we had to leave our last appartment, and i had to pack in the dark (when i tried adding electricity to the card, using an atm, i managed to withdraw 400 rmb and add 0 rmb to the card. I think my atm card doesn't give me the option to add electricity, since i tried every feasible option on the chinese langauge atm!)