Salutations.

I meant to write about this earlier, but the wonders of sake bombing on Thursday night and the fabulocity of Slope Day have left me preoccupied in recent days. However, this is important to me, so document it I must.

Thursday evening we showed the documentary Invisible Children to our LC. And while attendance was less than expected, there was some free ass pizza (thanks to our mystery Big Red Bucks benefactor... lord know how someone still have more than like 20 of those left, let alone enough to get 3 pizzas, but cudos to you). Anyway, the event may not have gone off as I originally intended, as many of my endeavors tend to do, but the reaction was even better than anything I ever could have imagined. First of all, the emotion that the movie brought all of us, the eye-opening experience it generated, was utterly unreal. People were touched. Hearts were moved. All I remember is the silence that permeated the room. No one knew what to say, how to react to what they were just shown. Kids, children, people younger than all of us, lived in absolute fear, experienced things that we could never even dream, or nightmare, about. I think this movie had a big effect on Luke, just coming of his conference experience in Cameroon. I'm really glad he was able to experience this film, and I hope that he takes his new found exposure to the plights of Africa and really explores it. Maybe he'll actually do something useful for once, except having a pretty boss 'fro.

This was also, in my opinion, a break through experience, for our LC and for me. People were legitimagely touched and united by this film, something I don't know if we've yet to experience as an LC. The few who made it to the film, I feel, have now seen the power and impact that AIESEC can have. Up until this point, we have been rather preoccupied with getting our LC on its feeble little feet, but now, we've reached a turning point. We have the knowledge base, the manpower, and the resourced to kick the tires and lite the fires. And now people have experienced exactly what impact, what change, AIESEC has the power to achieve.

Whether or not we hold this event again, whether or not people follow up on this issue, doesn't matter to me. I'd love to see that happen, but I'd be happy enough if people just realized that AIESEC has the power to affect people as much as they were by this film. And I think it was important for me to see that. Seeing my own ideas and efforts come to fruition made me realize that I, too, have that power as part of AIESEC. After a somewhat lackluster outcome from running ROKS, a frustrating LTM, and a pant-load droppingly academic schedule recently, my AIESEC involvement and motivation has not been what it was after WSC. Going into a summer break that almost promises to be about as hilarious as mold, ending my AIESEC year after holding an event like this is going to help me keep my boney ass in tip top impacting shape so next year we can really get this raft a-floatin'. I know that we're going to come back strong for next semester, taking ass and kicking names!

Alright, I guess that's enough out of me. I hope you all enjoyed the few minutes you've spent here. I hope to see a lot of good things posted here thorough the summer and beyond. Just remember... big brother is watching, so I guess we'll all have to leave those stories about that blacked out night in Bing' for another page.

Take it easy.

hey, must be the money...