Yeni il, Yeni həyat – New year, New life

Here we go, passing the emotional threshold of a new year.

I`m alone in my apartment in Baku, listening to great music, talking with great people, thinking of life, my choices, my long-term goals, my future and my past, my blog ).

Dear public diary, for my future me, and for people who care about me, here`s a wrap-up of the important moments in 2010, and, for the first time in my life, my goals for 2011!

Building 2011 starts by looking at 2010, so here it goes:

- My last conference as a part of AIESEC Iasi, back in the day… Perfect ending for my two years and a half journey at the local chapter in AIESEC, left me with a feeling of deep gratitude and accomplishment. For sure the hardest, strongest and most forming experience of my life up until that point. Been to 29 conferences during that time, worked on 3 departments, worked on three projects, lead and managed the Incoming Exchange department for one year, many memories, accomplishments and failures, few dear friends.

- My six month journey to follow my passion and find my place in AIESEC, culminating with being elected as President for AIESEC Azerbaijan (previous post about it here)

- Spent one amazing month in Moldova, working with great people from AIESEC Chisinau, living with Arteom, promoting projects, coaching leders, my first conference chairing experience, running exchange recruitment,  damn… I just realized I miss those days a bit. I miss Chisinau!

- Travelled in Ukraine twice, first time to be part of a facilitators team for New Horizons Conference (here and here), and then to be part of AIESEC Odessa for 8 days, working with them and chairing their transition night.

- Arrived in Baku on 27th July, started the truly amazing journey of building and leading AIESEC Azerbaijan. (here). For the first time in my life, started living on my own two feet. Learning to be independent, taking charge of all aspects of my life. I like it.

- Went to the AIESEC International Congress in India. Wow… that experience was soo strong I`m still discovering it, 6 months later ). I will write a post about it as soon as I know where to start! I miss soo many things, but I`m only going to mention the Rickshaw rides!!!

- Elected two amazing MC members, Crina and Mihai! they arrived in Baku in September.

- Did my best every day to run AIESEC, very challenging, rewarding and all-around amazing experience!

- My father made me cry a bit when he told me he is very proud of me (first time in my life).

- Made my mother feel better when she was down.

- Found someone that can help me achieve a goal I had since I was 15. We will be hearing more about that in 2011, for sure.

- Spent winter Holidays in my new home, Azerbaijan (Home is where the heart is), but away from  my family.

- Started learning Azeri and Russian.

All in all, 2010 has been, without a doubt, the best year of my life. That being said, I believe 2011 will be even better! To help make that clearer, and more measurable,

Here are  the main goals I want to achieve in 2011,

goals that I know will make me a better person. I will succeed in some of them, maybe most of them, hopefully all of them, but in the end, what matters is the journey, and giving my best:

1. Learn how to cook complicated food. The benchmark for ” Complicated ” will be “Sarmale“,  ”Bors” , “Pui la cuptor“, “Supa de rosii“, “Supa de galuste“. Both my English readers and Romanian readers can enjoy photos of each of the dishes by clicking on the name .

2. Learn conversational Azeri and Russian. I`m at about 80 words in Azeri now, and 20 in Russian. The goal, would be about 1000 – 2000 each. Need to make a system to work on this!

3. Learn Tango. Nothing fancy, I just want to be able to dance one song, from start till end, without any mistakes . We will go on to win competitions at a global level in 2012. )))))

4. Visit 10 countries. They don`t have to be NEW countries. Marcel Proust said: “The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

5. Love and be loved.

6. I’ve decided I want to blog more. I will be posting on this blog once a day for all of 2011. I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, awesome and wonderful. If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and likes, and good will along the way.

7. Lead AIESEC Azerbaijan as MCP 11.12 towards being the number one AIESEC country in Caucasus, delivering both quality and quantity.

8. Save 4000 Euro in a personal account, by the end of the year. I`ve got a few ideas how I can work for it. Time to start building for the future.

9. Get in Shape. End goal is 80 kg by the end of next year.

10. Read / listen to 50 books and keep a record on it. I`m flexible about the kind of books. Starting a Google Docs to keep track now!

In fact, I`m going to use that to keep track of points 2, 4, 8 and 9 too. I also think I`ll make it public at the end of the year, this is a commitment.

Well dear readers, time to go live life, one second at a time, one day at a time, one goal at a time!

6 Hours have passed so far from 2011, and I can tell, this year is going to be legendary

Alex out!

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