IC Photos (Poland Conference)

My friends from the USA. Trent is the finance man behind our Bahrain project (left) and Andrew works with AIESEC US (right). Seen here at an ungodly hour of the morning coaxing the hobbo-shisha into action. The hobbo shisha is a device that Trent Macguivered together back in the USA. Nice one.


This is a photo of Mel Au (Melbourne, Australia) and Ralph (Sydney, Australia). Ralph is one of my oldest friends in this stage of my life. I first met Ralph during my first days at university. Now for the first time in 4.5 years our paths have seperated (he is President of AIESEC in Australia and I am here in Bahrain). It was a pleasure to catch up on life, see how our different paths are treating us. Good times were had. Ralph, thanks for sharing your thoughts and I appreciate your friendship. This is a photo taken in the main square of Krakow. Beer, sun, old timey buildings... good times.


My team mates. Claude (USA) and Mada (Romania) are new people in my life, we are working setting up a chapter of AIESEC in Bahrain... a strange job by any standards, we share the highs, the lows, the communication barriers, and the joys of comparing the lives of three similiarly minded people, all interested in youth development, business and entreprenuership. It is an amazing experience comparing our lives and looking at how the three of us came to be where we are at the moment.


Maciej Starzyk. A good friend from Poland. Many a late night has been had talking about life, family, direction. I call those '4am conversations' and they should be treasured by all and sundry. It is friends like these that add a truly global feel to the organisation that I work for.


Yassine (left) and Amine (right) my Moroccan friends. I had the privilage of visiting Morocco in 2003. A noble country if ever there was one. These were some of the people that make AIESEC conferences so grand. Yassine is heading up a conference that aims to bring several hundred Arab youths together to discuss concepts of self driven learning and leadership. Amine works with conflict resolution. Two highly noble endevours.


Finally: the Bahrain delegation. These girls took a leap of faith and travelled over continents to see AIESEC on a full scale. These are the guys that make our life so easy here in Bahrain. Sahar, Ala and Ayesha: thankyou, you are champs.