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Hey all,

Last week was nothing special. We just had long days in the office, working on our upcoming July conference which will start in two weeks from nos. I’m really looking forward to meet all our members there. Apart from that my days were mostly filled with transition, trying to find out how Australia works and starting to get things settled for my job. Everything is still new and exciting so I’m having a fantastic time! 

 Yesterday we had a trip to the city centre. As there was a festival with all free food and drinks the whole team was exited. With our limited wages we are keen to hear the word free or happy hour  :-D.

First we went to the Chinese bakery to grab breakfast and headed for a walk along darling harbour. It’s in the middle of Sydney, but there is so much green and space. I’ll try to give you an idea:

Darling harbour:

Just next to the harbour, still in the middle of the city:

A special one for the starbucks  fans

It was also one of the firts good days:

Afterwards we headed for our food and wine festival, which would be amazing. A whole day of free food and wine, in the end we could even take 10 wine glasses home. Again an investment we won’t have to make.

After the festival we went for our favourite Chinese place to eat some dumplings  (with chop sticks ;-)), we crashed a birthday party and got free vodka and went on to the Retro club,  a70-80-90 club in Sydney, for an amazing party with the team. More pictures will come as soon as I get them.

I’ll have to get back to work now. Stay tuned for more updates

This is what the team and I will be managing: AIESEC in Australia

The AIESEC office when you enter

The ER office (also know as the fish bowl). My desk is the one facing the window

My office

 Have you heard about KANGA BANGAS? Kangaroo sausages, cheap and delicious!!!!!

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Hey all,

It’s been a week since i’ve updates my blog. The last week has mainly been a week of transition and getting into work. Last Tuesday my international colleague Patricia from Colombia arrives, she is also known as the chuck of our team (more information see: here). It’s cool that I’m no longer the only international any more. We go along quite well and together we try to figure out our way around in this up-side down country.

In the last week I was listening about 10 hours a day to people about what was the country reality, the history of AIESEC in Australia, there systems and much more. When there was a first meeting where my input was required it was directly quite heavy, we had to decide who we would send to IC. Unfortunately I didn’t get to go, so no trip to Brazil this year, but this gives me more time to discover this continent.

On Friday night we went out to some club. It’s very different here! Parties start around 9-10 and they already are dancing around that time. The clubs are also not closed off but have big windows and you have a cool view wile dancing (definitely because we went out in darling harbour)

Saturday we had a day of teambuilding, where we decide that sustainability would be the theme that would be driving our team. It was nice to get to know the different people on the team, and our team coach. I’m really looking forward to work with these guys in the upcoming year.

On Sunday we went, apart from getting in the office to do some work, shopping. It’s actually quite cold in Sydney and as I didn’t thought about that during my packing process I had to buy some other clothes. It’s quite difficult to find your way in stores you’re really not used to. But apart from the fact that I was lost all afternoon, I found my two new jumpers

Today (Monday) was the first functional day. We sat together and start transitioning accounts, which let to my first corporate e-mails and phone calls. It’s a quite strange business culture as High profile people are naming you mate, and you only use first names, but you feel a connection with everyone straight away.

The last week was so much fun that I’m looking forward to the upcoming once. To give you a better insight on my life I’ll be uploading some pictures about our office and house mater today and tomorrow.

Hope you enjoy my postings

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Hey all,

Today was my first day in office! So I’m writing you from my new desk. It’s still quite empty but the work will come in the upcoming days. As today was a national holiday I had some time to clean up my stuff, settle, reply to e-mails,… I’m happy I had this very quite first office day

So to finish the history of my 30 hours lasting plane ride

Londen-singapore

I already motioned that I had a very good seat and enjoyed the service delivered by Singapore. I had another quite intriguing conversation. The steward responsible for my section (very beautiful Malaysian girl) had apparently Two degrees, one in biomedical science. We had a discussion about faith, success and happiness in your carrier. Quite interesting!!! I hope I want meet my brother on the flight back home (he is trying to get the same degree)

Singapore

I arrived in the new terminal 3 of Singapore Airport. Like you can see on the following pictures it’s a cool airport. Very spacious and free wireless internet everywhere. All high tech, but they could not accept Belgium credit cards. I love you guys

Singapore-Sydney

My first flight on the A380. I’ve to recon that this plane is gigantic! Although the fun of flying is not there I enjoyed the plane. From the inside it looks very big, so you don’t have the claustrophobic feeling you have in a normal plane.

Arrival

All went good during arrival. No luggage nor visa check and the full team were there for the welcome. Fantastic. Big thanks to the team for getting up so early

Day 1-3 in Australia:

The first day I enjoyed my jet leg quite hard. I did nothing really useful apart from beating my team in buzz (how I did it? No one knows yet). We went for a short walk in the city but did nothing touristic.

Second day was quite the same. Just relaxing and try to used to the time difference. Although we went shopping today: D. It’s quite difficult to find what you need in a new environment. Everything is really different!!! Luckily I found nutella at the end of the day

3^rd day would be now. I had a good sleep in as it is a national holiday (Queen’s birthday). Althoug i went into the office to update my blog as you can see.

So that was it for today. Hope you all enjoy yourself! Have a nice day

Hey all,

Today I write to you for the first time. I’m typing this text in Singapore airport! I’m here relaxing in a couch waiting for my next flight to leave in an hour or tree.

About 24 hours ago I started on a 14 month lasting international experience/ work experience/ holiday (please select one). As most of you know I’ll reside in Sydney the upcoming year. Before i could start this XP I’ve to travel about 30 hours!

I left from Zaventem on the 5^th of June (15.00U local time). When I arrived at check in some of my friends came to say goodbye. The result: a very random group of AIESECERS at our national airport, for more information check: http://www.stubru.be/node/59238. I received some gift vouchers here and thanks to studio Brussels I almost missed my plane (they were already looking for my luggage :D)

First I took the plain to London Heathrow. I was surprised to find my luggage very easy.  There I changed planes to fly to Singapore. I have to admit that Singapore Airlines delivers a very nice service. Both on the ground and in the air I enjoyed flying with them.

Now I’m here in Singapore waiting for my next plain (A380 :D) and it is Friday 17h local time

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