AIESEC International, Martin speaking

It is Friday and a relatively special working week has just ended. Why special? Because I tried how it is to be in an office keeper's shoes:) The whole AI team has left last Wednesday for the International Congress in Turkey, the rest of GN boards has left last Friday, Laura has left on Sunday and Sabine (AI office manager & salsa dancer) got ill...
OK, the more undisturbed environment I have the better, both for the "writing" phase of the project as well as for my studies of maths. What I realized very soon was that it wouldn't be as undisturbed as it had originally seemed.

Few things to arrange, e.g.:
> send UBS trophies to Turkey for the final ceremony on IC
> coordinate its transportation when it got stuck on Turkish customs (it wasn't just "one call")
> receive other parcels and office equipment
> search in financial papers and registration documents for one damned ID number:)
> explain a Dutch official that AI is not a VAT payer (after confirming this with people in Turkey, which sometimes took the whole morning/afternoon to get in touch with them)
> sort, pack and send a hundred of financial reports to Turkey
> fix Derek's flight ticket issue

... and of course, as expected, answering tens of phones. I can still remember some concrete topics:
> explaining a potential AIESEC member that if he wants to join the organization, he has to get in touch with local committee at his university first:)
> listening to two 30 min stories of dissatisfied students, in one case it was their problem, in the second one I really felt sorry with that person and advised them some next steps
> explaining our branding principles to people from one unnamed television and another agency
> solving an exchange quality issue of one LCP and explaining the exchange standards (IXPQS), where I found my previous occupation in AIESEC very useful:)
> and many other random announcements from SNs applying for global traineeships etc.

It was worth experiencing, at least I know one more job I wouldn't be able to do:)

Sometimes I worked in the library
Daily agenda of this week
Although I got unexpectedly busy with office administration, I tried to get some order in my daily agenda so as to be as efficient as possible. Of course, I have never managed to follow it in this order because I didn't have it written down, but when I think about the week, it would be something like this:

> 8:15-8:30 wake up & get up
> at around 9 a.m. arrive in the office
> 30 min of office maintenance (watering the plants or cleaning or hoovering or washing dishes etc.)
> 9:30-10 breakfast, reading news and blogs etc.
> 10-10:30 still breakfast, morning mail
> 11-19 work on the project with lunch break and social break along with office administration tasks (see above)
> 20-21:30 dinner, LC/MC related things, updating blog etc.
> 22-2 a.m. at home, studying maths, PC prohibited:)

Let's hope I'll manage keep to it in the next week as well. It will be my last week in Rotterdam and there is still so many things left. And the maths exam is closer and closer...:(