Making of... Annual Report 06/07

At the beginning of June, it wasn't only IS CEEDers, me and Zeno, who arrived in the AI office. The third CEEDer, Gwen, has already been mentioned in some previous posts, as long as we have spent lots of time together: CEEDers, GN board members, random visitors etc... simply people who are not in the middle of the AI transition and are a great deal more flexible during weekends to do some decent trips.

> I'm working on the Tempus project.
> Zeno is performing an extremely valuable maintenance (better to say complete regeneration) of the neglected office infrastructure.
> And Gwen? She is writing the Annual Report 2006/2007.

Annual Report
You can hardly imagine how demanding work it is, at least I wouldn't believe it before. Getting inputs from AI members, writing articles, being a mediator between a designer, Dey, Michelle (final responsible for AR) and the rest of the office. Not a rewarding job:) I remember all those struggles about colours of tiny headings in the report, most importantly about the layout of the cover: put there sky or not? Put there grass or not? Make shadows or not? Sounds simple, but imagine that everyone has different opinion (including a designer) and time goes by so quickly...

I took more significant role in selection of pictures. Going through hundreds of pictures from various events (mainly International President Meetings and International Congresses) was an interesting insight into the past.


Taking of Dey's photo for the editorial
Czech photo in AR!
I've managed to place this picture from SNC 2006 in right bottom corner of page 17 devoted to Issue based experience. Unfortunately the boss rejected it in the last round of corrections... so we don't have a Czech picture there:(

Dinner with Dutch MC
Today, we also had a dinner with Dutch MC (national committee of AIESEC in the Netherlands). Since the main reason behind this event was a common gathering of current and new AI teams and Dutch MC, it turned out to be a pleasant networking evening. I got to know many new people, learned more about the specific way of how AIESEC works here, about their conception of AIESEC membership, AIESEC XP, job fares and so on.
We spent the evening in a nice restaurant. I went for turkey with chips, which was delicious meal, just quite expensive.



BTW I also posted kind of summarizing post related to my stay here on AIESEC Praha blog.