This Is Africa :-)

while T.I.A. is no excuse for not regularly blogging, let me provide some (hopefully) entertaining stories about what’s been occupying me the last two and a half weeks.

Just after my last post, my laptop succumbed to a virus.  The service center decided to completely reformat my hard drive and reinstall windows, which means I’ve been working hard to reinstall software & reconfigure settings.  At last, my blogging software (Windows Life Writer – a rare high-quality program bundled with Windows) is back up and running, and I can keep you posted once again :-)

Closing Event for the Young EntrepreneurS (YES) and AfriTour Projects at AIESEC MUBS 

Now all 7 of AIESEC Uganda’s projects have closed.  Now, we’re standing on the shoulders of giants as we plan for 2010 realizations.  We have a terrific talent retained within AIESEC that will provide leadership for a new year of innovative projects.  And we have partners who are aligned with the AIESEC Way and dedicated to supporting the success of our projects :-)

By the way, we were also covered in Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper on 5th August and 12th August issues.  We also had a news feature that aired twice on WBS TV on Saturday, 1st August.  Contact me if you’d like to see any of these media appearances!  (I don’t want to interfere with copyright issues by posting online)

Yet another cooking adventure with AIESECers 

Now most of the trainees have left, and AIESEC Uganda is planning hard for a spectacular recruitment season.  But for a lucky special few, International Congress in Malaysia is coming up next week!!

Follow me on twitter to hear about my own preparations for IC 2009 in Malaysia.  But don’t worry, I still emphatically prefer blogging to tweeting ;-)

Just wanted to share with you one email that I got this morning from a colleague in AIESEC Uganda:

Dear all,

I would like to invite you to Makerere University Business School for a Press Conference  tomorrow Friday 8:00am to 10:00 am at the national office. It will take one hour at most.

Now at first, it would seem discordant – to say a two-hour time slot, and say that the event will take one hour at most.  Yet this is a perfect example of T.I.A. in practice.  For all morning events, people will inevitably arrive at least one hour late.  This message is a polite way of saying “come from 9:30am to 10:30am,” which is the actual time that we are intending to hold the Press Conference.  This all seems perfectly normal to me now…