My first MC week!

For my English friends, I'm gonna try to write this one in English! :) So to briefly summarize my last message, I arrived in Paris on Sunday morning, Paris time. David, MCPe @Fr welcomed me at the airport, and drive me to the MC Flat (fortunately he had a car so I didn't had to travel thought the métro de Paris with all my luggage!! Plus it was 3am for me at the time... )

The MC flat is what we would consider as a really small appartment in Canada! REALLY!! there's 2 rooms, a kitchen and a washroom... and we are 4 in the appartment, so we are sharing rooms! Plus, during transition, you can easily double the number of persons per room! It can be kinda challenging when one of your roomate is snooring... at lot! lol

I then visited a bit Paris with Miki, MCVP LC Development current, in the afternoon, and once again with Rita, current MCVPX (from Ontario) and her sister, on monday.

Tuesday was my first day in the MC office. The only thing that I didn't expected was that I was the first and only one of the incoming team (other that David -MCPe) in Paris! By chance, the current team is really cool!

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Pour les francophones, les nouveaux updates commences ici ;)

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My first week as MCe was exhausting (obviously, it,s aiesec lol)!! First, I have soooo much to learn that my brain is always working! Second, we are so many living in the MC flat, and all of them being aiesecers, I'm always going to bed really late, and waking up really early! I would say that I slept an average of 6-7 hours a night so far... with the jet lag effect, I can certify that this is far from being enough!!!

Because I was the only elect MC member, tuesday was relax. I worked on my transition, but more informaly. I finished the day by going to the interns night ;)

On Wednesday, I went to my first LC visit in Paris at ESCP (a Grande École). It was my first meetint with non-MC aiesec france members, so I helped me a lot to understand @France reality.

Thursday, I had my first official Transition Day! Therefore, it was the first time that I was finally meeting my MC team (the elects)!!! (well at least most of them because the 2 int'l didn't arrived in France yet) Still I was pretty interesting to spend some time finally with the team that I will be stuck with for the next year! lol :P By chance, I like all of them!! :D Ils se marrent tous de mon accent mais bon ... lol Ce qui a vraiment été nice, c'est qu'à la fin de la journée, une gang de la incoming et outgoing team sont allés à Montmartre (vous savez ma place préféré en France) pour chiller et jouer de la guit! Yes I played guitar on the step of Sacré Coeur in Montmartre!! :D Somehow, a dream coming true!! lol Plus, when we left, a random woman told me I had a nice voice ;) I was like, "OMG I have a fanclub!! where's my facebook group!!??" hahah just kidding (not about the compliment, but about the facebook group lol). Still, it made my day!

On Friday morning, I left for Reims with Miki for a LC visit. Reims is an LC that started less that a year ago, and is still considered as an extention. During the weekend, we did SWOT analysis, recrument planning for Septembre, trainings on aiesec processes (a LOT!), etc. (C'est bien pcq ca m'a permis de bien comprendre les différences entre les processus d'AIESEC France et du Canada. En fait, ce n,est pas tant différent en terme de processus, mais je me rends compte que le Canada est beaucoup plus fort que ce qu'on pense! La culture et la connaissance de l'AIESEC ici est vraiment moindre que ce que l'on retrouve normalement au Canada... là est tout le défi à relevé! )

I think that I now understand more the challenges that RVPs were facing... You know, how they can look exhausted even if they are saying the opposite and working all the time! Doing a LC visit when you are already tired is kind of hard, principalement sur ton psychologique! It's crazy how much coaching is sucking your energy!! And than, even if you are really tired, you still need to keep your energy up to get the job done. Sérieusement, ca prend de la discipline mentale pour rester motivé!!

Mais ma visite à Reims a malgré tout été vraiment vraiment plaisante! Vous me connaissez, j'aime beaucoup trop rencontrer du nouveau monde!! Alors rencontrer les membres, plus me promener dans la très jolie ville de Reims, sans oublier notre petit party de vendredi où on s'est retrouvé à boire du whisky chez Constance (une aiesecer) tout en grattant une guitare, s'aligne complètement dans mes intérêts!! lol

I'm right now still in Reims, it's almost 2am and I'm blogging instead of sleeping... BRAVO! and I'm then complaining that I am tired lol We are having a OGX training at 11am tomorrow, plus two "review board interview" in the afternoon. Then I'll be back in Paris to get a little bit of rest before the week start again! wow, je sais pas trop combien de temps mon corps va supporter la fatigue! ;P

Monday, I'm supposed to meet some managers of Delphi (leading global supplier of mobile electronics and transportation systems and important partner of @France) with Alex (current MCVP Business Development), and I'm supppose to take Aylin at the airpoit on wednesday (MCVP ICXe from Turkey!! Yé un nouveau membre dans l'équipe!!)

ps : J'essaie peu à peu de m'intégrer à la culture francaise! Pour ce faire, je me suis convaincue d'intégrer l'accent francais... Je dis donc des mots comme marrant, putain, ouf, chelou... et je prononce le "t" de "but", "août" et "yaourt" lol J'ai découvert que c'était vraiment beaucoup plus simple de faire ca comme ca vu que je me fais vraiment mieux comprendre!! On m'a même dit que je n'avais plus du tout d'accès! lol Mais ce qui me trahit c,est bien évidemment mes expressions typiquement québécoises tel que "à tantôt", "faut qu'il y aille plus de jus" et " chuis tanné". Mais bon, avec le temps, je vais commencer à m'adapter! Je commencer même à apprendre le verlang et c'est vraiement bizarre comme truc, et pas du tout logique... Mais ne vous inquiétez pas, je n'en perds par moins ma culture québécoise!! Mon dernier projet est d,ailleurs d'intégrer la "loi du shutgun" et du buffalo dans les loi du MC team! et qui sais, j'arriverais pê à faire vivre la légende de Val d'Or en France!! lol