Getting Settled

The irony

While I am travelling and so many exciting things happen, I can't seem to find the time to blog and share it with the rest of you. Just as soon as I settle down, I find more time but less exciting things to blog about.

My life in Abu Dhabi is very intense. Work is demanding, and wonderful. I get a rush out of doing what I am doing, even if I am only just getting my feet wet. I feel what we are doing is important and we don't have any real bottlenecks that we can't solve with a few good brainstorming sessions. Nothing like with AIESEC where everyday was a challenge just to keep rolling.

No, my challenges are now how to make our projects (specifically the volunteer project) a complete and huge success on as many levels as possible given the vast resources we intend to use to achieve this.

Personally, I just found a place to stay, paid the realtor his blood money (robbery!) and am getting ready to move in. It is very difficult to even look the part when you don't have a natural place to call your own but are working full time.

I just got back from a refreshing trip to Cairo where I attended a Symposium care of AIESEC to deal with many issues which will overlap with my work at the foundation. The symposium itself was quite simplistic in that it had no real tangible outcome or reason other than voicing ideas and opinions. This was quite disheartening since we had so many great people present.

However the symposium did make me realize what we will be doing at the Emirates Foundation, on similar topics and at similar symposiums, will be entirely measured by our output and how we implement it. This is very nice to know.

Looking forward to posting all about recent times, upcoming ones, and occasionally the present. Cheers.