Hola chicas y chicos! I have a very exciting announcement for all of you....get ready....brace yourselves....this brought tears to my eyes....you may want to sit down for this....are you ready???

@CN just had three realizations in the past WEEK! Holy shit!!! Yes, that's right, three, THREE, matches were realized this past week. Arthur went to Colombia to begin his traineeship, and both Laura and Mike just went to the Czech Republic for their traineeships!!!! We are officially taking over the world. We have CNians on three continents right now! And we've covered all the @ growth networks this past year at some time or another with our presence! Now...on that note...who wants in on starting an LC in Antarctica with me? We can impact penguins.

Here are IC pics and any pictures from my traineeship...enjoy

We did it!! Recruitment is officially over and we have moved into the Indution phase of the year! Yay!

The first induction session was an incredible learning experience for me and it renewed the motivation I had coming off SSC. To be able to hear and feel the passion in the room makes me sure that @CN can and will accomplish great things this year. But, like Luke said: Let's never be satisfied. It's all part of our COE and we need to becontinuously striving to improve because that is part of @'s Identity.

I'm so proud of everyone and thanks for all the hard work and keeping me sane the past few weeks!

My Goal: Everyone realizing that Induction should be fun--for all of us. All we really want to do is make sure that by the end of this we're all able to function as one solid LC. They already have passion and drive, so all they need is some @ knowledge. So all formalities aside, let's show them what @ is all about so we can add 25+ passionate @ers to the world!

The first round of interviews was an absolute success. Nick said it best at our LTM on Thursday: This is crunch time and we really need to step it up. I have no doubt that that is exactly what we did today. Sure, we may have made poor choices last night in having a bit too much fun, but all in all I don't think that affected what went on today. We've set the bar incredibly high for both the new AIESECers and ourselves and I am so excited and have the utmost confidence that we can pull this off this year and make @CN into something great.

Sweet, I think I finally got this blogger thing to work. Never thought Id see the day.

Get ready yall, P-Niz and I are bringing the post conference high back up to Ithaca. Times might be hard and I'm sure everyone is a bit overwhelmed, but nothing beats a good weekend of hard work and even more partying.

Get ready!