Things are running smoothly after our conference which was a success, even if it seem like it might all collapse mant times. It was very professional, well received by students and business alike and had excellent media coverage.

The banners, posters, folders, pens and delegates bags finally arrived less than 10 hours before we were due to start, so we had a late night and early morning packing everything. But thanks to the guards and house staff at Cetenagroup, we managed to pull through.

Both days went down without too many problems. We were constantly running at least ½ and hour behind, but everyone put that down to “Afghan time” so we were forgiven.

The Career Building Seminar on Sunday was more successful than I thought it would be, with students really interested in attending the workshops. I don’t know whether it was because this is how they would get lunch or qualify for the second day, but there was a really good turn out.

Particularly the Careers Fair was great, with students who were not even coming to the conference all giving plenty of attention to the represented companies.

The Leadership Development Summit at the Intercontinental Hotel on Monday also went remarkably well. We had some small problems with registration, and then after the first hour, the microphone stopped working, but other than that it was great. Having it at a hotel was really impressive and made the day a whole lot easier for us.

The speakers were generally interesting. Particularly a discussion on leadership, lead by Brodie Boland, raised some interesting questions and got great feedback.

We were also able to add in some cool Afghan cultural elements on this day by having some traditional musicians. At lunch time, a whole bunch of the boys danced the Atun, a national dance.

In the evening the musicians returned to play just for the AIESECers and we had our own little party in the Intercontinental Hotel, on top of Kabul.

One of the coolest things ever has been watching the news and listening to the radio in the last 2 days and hearing AIESEC mentioned everywhere, even if I don’t understand really what they’re saying.

After 2 months work, I really feel like I’ve been able to contribute something to AIESEC in Afghanistan. They now have some good contacts, media exposure, and if all the finances work out, we might even turn a small profit, enough to run the office for the next little while anyway.

Not only that, but I’ve learned so much from doing it. I feel like I’ve got enough experience building partnerships and raising funds to come back and kick ass on the Australian MC.

Also, it has been great to see new Afghan AIESECers begining to fall into AIESEC through this project. Mansoor and Jawanshir have made me so pround by really taking on responsibility and dealing with my phrase "solve it". But the whole conference team including Asad, Sadaf, Zuhal, Zuhra, Naheid, Fraedoon, Abdullah, Fahim and Hashmat have all been a big part of making it happen.

Most of all Connie, who has been with me since the beginning, who has been my friend and confidant, has pushed and fought to make this conference happen on the CETENAGROUP side.

Cheers Guys