End of preperation seminars (Day 2)

Well, day 2 is quite fun for me as I'm attending the conference all day long.

An overview of what we had.
A little revision of InSight XP
How we should represent Singapore Culture
Inter-cultural Communication
Learning Circles
AIESEC Values
World Idol
The Story of Abigail
AIESEC CultureShock
Reflections of day event: What do you want out of the Internship opportunity

The talk on how we should represent Singapore Culture made me think hard, do I really know Singapore at the back of the hand, the political system, the education systems, the story of the local delights and so on... When we go aboard, we'll be ambassadors to Singapore and might be asked questions that we have accepted but didn't understand the rational behind, something as simple as Merlion, what's the origin of it, I think it appeared in the Primary Text but that was like years ago...

In the session where we experience difficulty inter-cultural communication, each of our group are supposed to pose as people from a particular culture; giving us a first hand experience of the possible difficulties.

In the learning circles, we talked about the maid policies in Singapore, the discussion led to new insight - such as possible reasons why there are no maids from China (they can be a highly probable disruption to the family fabrics in Singapore)...

Hmm, rushing for time will continue at a later time.