Meeting new people

I'll write about what I am doing here later on, when I get to know current reality better. For now it is sufficient to say that I am closely cooperating especially with AIESEC local committees in Toronto. Till now I've met with representatives of AIESEC Toronto (the University of Toronto; 63,000 students) and AIESEC Ryerson (the Ryerson university; 24,000 students).

In this post I'd like to briefly share my impressions from LC Ryerson, where I've spent the most of time so far. I like these guys!:) They seem to be very passionate and enjoying their participation. They have around 40 active members who visit the office (something like AIESEC Praha). It is rather big office (like the one of AIESEC Brno) situated in one of university buildings* - faculty of Business.
* Good to mention that local image of university campus is a little bit different than in the Czech Republic (and even more different than at the University of Economics in Prague in particular, where there are all departments in 1 building only). The Ryerson university has more than 30 buildings spread in the downtown of Toronto (check the map).

The atmosphere at the office is very relaxed, people go here between classes to chat, read books, eat, browse the web, and of course work too. I've been to the office for around five times so far and I always meet certain people there, whereas some are always new. It is interesting to look around and watch a pace of the office.


Pub night
Tonight there was a Pub night organized by LC Ryerson, a gathering of members and trainees. Unfortunately not many people showed up, but since I didn't know almost anyone before, it was still very pleasant evening. Moreover I tried my first beer in Canada! It was good:)

Looking forward to get to know other LCs!

Czech corner
Dnes tedy o LC Ryerson. Spravni typci, porad mam tendenci to porovnavat k ceskym pobockam... mozna bych rekl tak trochu Karvina, hm, kdo vi:) Kdyz jsem poprve prisel na ofis, vsichni se otocili od monitoru (maji asi 5 kompu) a ani nepipli. U vedlejsiho stolu se postavil od nablyskaneho notebooku me oblibene znacky relativne vysoky Asiat, podal mi ruku, predstvil se a pronesl "Uz jsme na tebe cekali". Huh, trochu Matrix, znejistel jsem. Ale zbytek lidi na ofisu ocividne zjistel, coz bylo dobre znameni. Pak uz to slo raz na raz. Nekdo se chtel seznamit, nekdo ne... nejprve jsem moc netlacil na pilu, ale kdyz jsem za 2 hodiny odchazel, uz jsme byli jako rodina:)

Druhy kulturni stret me cekal v hospode, teda byl to spis lepsi lokal. Vzhledem k tomu, ze se tu nesmi nikde kourit, je srovnani s nasimi prazskymi hospodami docela obtizne. Mozna bych to prirovnal k Potrefene huse na Chodove (ano, taky je to uvnitr obchodaku). No ale hlavni sok byl, kdyz jsme si objednavali...
"vodu"
"vodu"
"vodu"
"jake mate prosim tmava piva?"
... neni tezke odhadnout, co jsem si dal ja:)
Figl je v tom, ze tu do AIESEC lidi chodi uz i treba v 16 letech, takze kolega co prave dokoncuje svoji 2,5 letou drahu je tesne na prahu 19 (plnoletost) a ukazalo se, ze si tedy na zadne predchozi konferenci nikdy nedali ani pripitek!
Cestou zpet domu jsem zase zabloudil, ale o tom az priste. Spojim to do postu o poznavani mesta:)