Saturday, December 27, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Cultural Day 2008 " Let's Do eXchange "
In this event, there were so many cultures that were shown, which were domestic cultures and foreign cultures.
CULTURAL DAY 2008 showed the beautiful traditional Indonesian songs which was sung by law faculty’s choir. That event also showed one of traditional dances in Indonesia. The dance was from Padang, West Sumatra, well known as ‘Tari Piring’. What a beautiful dancing it was! All of the participants was so enthusiastic to watch it. The dance performance was “outstanding” so that the participants was being interested to watch their performance. “It’s really fantastic, I’ve never seen an exotic dances like that before in my life, even in my own country, Belgium.” said Marelise - one of the participants.
After that we got beautiful acappela songs that sang by ANN. The participants were very convenient with the acapella. Then there was a magic show, the magician showed some tricks that made the participants were surprised.
And many more shows such as break dance from 1000 doors,games, and ROLE DANCE!!
CULDAY 08 was not only giving interesting performances, but also giving presentation from exchange participants. They introduced their countries to the participants, Those were good presentations because they brought some handicrafts, toys and food that became the characteristic of their countries.
Marelise for example, she brought some Belgium beers ,she said “it is very famous beer in Belgium”.
Beside the stage performances, there were also booths in CULDAY 08 such as Batik Semarang, Kedai digital, handicrafts booth by SMK 2 SMG, OLGA girls magz, KRAKATAU healthy drink. In batik semarang booth the participants tried to make BATIK by them self, it was fun! Kelly from new Zealand an marelise from Belgium had already tried.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
WELCOMING PARTY FOR OUR LOVELY EP
The event started when the EP was introduction themself, then they used another languages beside english. Marelise use “dutch” and Kylie use “japanese “ (actually she’s originally from japan, but studying in New Zealand). So all @ member UD was excited to hear them. And then Opening speech from Mr. Sembo as The LCP of @ UD, he said this welcoming party was held to make EP more closed to all @ member UD, he hoped The EP feel comfort when they lived in Semarang. After that, all participants was dinner, while they were eating ,they were enjoying live music performance from Dyriana Band. The great things happened when some of @ members were joined with Kylie and Marelise to sing some song. Especially when Kylie and Mrs Uli sung “first love” by Utada Hikaru.
The Ambience getting merry when suddenly there were a surprise party for Mr. Sembo, because at the same day he celebrated his 22nd birthdays. “I’m really happy about the surprise party and i didn’t expect about that before, it’s my special birthdays..i love u guys”, Mr.Sembo said while he opened his birtday’s gift. In generally this welcoming party was running well, everybody enjoyed that, especially the EP. “I appreciated about what u guys did for me, i liked it so much..trully.it should be held everyweeks”, said Marelise with laugh. And then kylie said “i thougt when i attended to this event i’ll be lonelly, but i’m wrong coz everybody was nice to me, I like Indonesian people..they’re so friendly”. Both of them also said, they were happy because all @ UD members loves taking picture with them...(whereas it basically all @ UD member is narcism ?)
Time goes by so quikly. At 10 pm sharp, the welcoming party was closing because The Dyriana cafe will be closed soon. Everybody seemed satisfied about this event. Thanks to all people who made this event running well, especially Roro as The OCP of this event, the OC, all EB, all @ members, and last but not least to Exchange Participants, Marelise and Kylie. It was a great night! ^-^v
-The Journalist Team-
Review Board
What is Review Board? Review Board is a chain program which is held by Outgoing Exchange (OGX) Department of AIESEC where the candidate of Exchange Participants (EPs) are selected before they are going internship abroad.
These chain program was coordinated by Iftitah Zaharah, one of the OGX senior staff, and helped by new members, which were Age, Putra and Handi. They were not working alone, all AIESEC members were contributing in this program. The program was going well because of their spirit of exchange. There were 7 EPs in this program which were Galih, Garna, Raja, Lintang, Vinilia, Primadi, Bram and Gandung. They had eagerness to go internship abroad through AIESEC.
What were marked? They were AIESEC knowledge (what AIESEC is, AIESEC Values, etc), academic (educational background), and psychology. The other aspect was entrepreneurship, which was selected by professional entrepreneur.
Who were selecting them? They were Vice president of OGX, Mr.Adi (Alumni) for selecting EPs AIESEC knowledge, Mrs. Retno (Faculty of Social & Political Sciences University of Diponegoro) and Mr. Made (Faculty of Economy Undip). And the entrepreneurship was selected by Ms. Cindy, the owner of Vina House.
The EP candidates were hihgly motivated to get new experiences for their lives. They are ready to fing unique things and challenge a new world.
HOW ABOUT U??? ARE YOU READY???
- journalist team -
Exchange Participant Induction
On December 6, 20008, AIESEC LC UD held the first Exchange Participant (EP) Induction which was followed by 9 EP candidates. They were Bram Suryo Kusumo, Gandung Bimananta, Raja Agustinus, Galih Astrotama, Azka Febrianis, Theodora, Raditya Garna, Lintang P, Primadi Widagdho. This EP Induction was held in Seminar Room Faculty of Economy University of Diponegoro.
The second day of EP Induction was held on Saturday, December 13, 2008. The candidates are going to walk on Review Board to select whether or not they can go exchange. We hope that everyone will be succeed....
LC Coaching on Exchange
Our LC Coach Friecy, who is Exchange NST (National Supporting Team) of AIESEC Indonesia, shared her experiences of being VP OGX 07/08 in her current LC, which is LC Bandung, on how she managed her team to acquire more EPs, and faced the challenges that she used to have, she also adressed the strategies of some top LCs of AI. The sharing session informed us what was going on our LC, through statistics of AIESEC Indonesia.
The next session was about marketing strategies to attract more Eps from different level, students for development traineeship and recent graduates for another part of traineeship. She conducted a game,there were groups of 4, which was trying to seek the best strategies on how we inform the exchange to our target and attract them. This game had been adjudicated by Friecy and Mr. Primadi. The winners were, in random order, Sembo’s group, khaleed’s group, and Rima’s group.
Last but not least, we want to say thanks for all the participants who had come at the event, Friecy for sharing her inspirational experiences, and of course for Mas Denny who (always) provided a nice place to have a meeting. We always hope that our LC will have 5100% of exchange!!! We always believe it...
Saturday, December 13, 2008
AIESEC Indonesia's Youth Leadership Conference
AIESEC Indonesia’s Youth Leadership Conference was held on November 15-19, 2008 in Puncak Kana Resort, Bogor. It involved youth who came from 6 different LCs of AIESEC Indonesia, which were University of Andalas, University of Indonesia, Bandung, University of Diponegoro, Surabaya, and University of Brawijaya.
With the theme of “The Rise of Extraordinary Leaders”, this conference aimed to provide youth with integrated experience, cultural exchange, global issues and leadership development. The objectives of the conference were giving understanding about AIESE, its product and AIESEC experience; developing leaders throug knowledge sharing and skill development; and also creating a paradigm shift about leadership.
mantra ( myaiesec.net training ) 08
MANTRA (another name of INTRA) on LC UD was held on Saturday, 29th November 2008 in Internet Laboratory (UPK). MANTRA is 3rd part of MEC which is give some education to all newie about myaiesec.com.This mantra was succed because all newie were exciting to participate on this event.
The theme of this mantra was “SPY” which all member had to use “SPY Dresscode” (but actually it didn’t works properly hehehe). The OCP of MANTRA, Ridwan Zia Kusumah says “I’m very greatfull to handle this event, it was fun and made me a little bit stress (especially to determine the spot of MANTRA) but thx god, my OC and I could solve that problem”. He also wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped and gave him an opportunities to become an OCP (thx to imam, fadil, toki, Mas khaleed,Tegar, mba rima and the others) coz he definetely got many learnings from that.
In generally the materials of this mantra were about to maximize the feature of myaiesec.net especially explain how myaiesec.net help the exchange process. See u on the NEXT MANTRA
-OC team-
EXTRA08 (Exchange & Marketing Training)
On November 8-9th 2008, AIESEC LC UD was held EXTRA (exchange & marketing training 2008). The topic which were discussed by on the 1st day it’s about marketing training. Newbies were came too with wearing the formal dresscode that they had to obeyed. Mr luthfi zein as an invited external speaker is a brand manager of PT. Indosat in pati, he had some discussion to shared about how we selling ourself, our product, and our project, after itu, the marketing simulation was held
On 2nd day, our lovely VP OGX, ICX and DT gave some transfer knowledge about exchange and we launched project opportunies. Finally, the last but not least, we also had a simulation about marketing to TN Taker.