Coffee and Cake

Ahhh, coffee and cake. Nothing provides a better chance for me to get comfy and start talkin! So here we are, with coffee in hand...

Name: Kylie
Location: Adelaide, Australia

Monday, December 22, 2008

I cleaned my room...

voluntarily. For those who know me from pre-Adelaide days, you'll also know that that never happens. Ever.

I have carpet. Grey carpet.

I washed all my clothes and my sheets et al. Vacuumed. I stopped short of cleaning the window.

God it feels good.

For those that are wondering why this merits a post, well, it just does.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

The place in between

I am in the place in between.

I still consider myself an AIESECer in every sense of the word, but I currently feeling rather misplaced. Having passed the baton of responsibility to my elect, I am no longer the LCP of UniSA.

However, I am yet to take up another role in AIESEC. So where am I? I'm not Taking any Responsibility at the moment, and I'm certainly not in a Leadership Role. So where does this leave me on the diagram that I've lived by for the last 2.5 years?

Granted, I'm waiting for MC applications to come out. I know where I want to go, what I want to achieve, and why I want to do it. But that is months away.

The dates for International Trainer's Conference have been released. So, my next date with AIESEC is in late April next year, in beautiful Prague. But what do I do with the months in between?

I'm here for my LC, ready to answer questions, be generally helpful, and just be 'on call', as Laura was for me in the months following my election. I'm still trawling .net, trying to learn about the countries to which I would apply. But what else?

Maybe I should be grateful for this break. Experience life without a second fulltime job for a while. But something tells me this won't feel right. It doesn't right now, so why should it get any easier?

I will just have to wait it out, develop myself outside of the 'process', and see what happens.

Thursday, December 4, 2008