AIESEC. 7 countries, 2 holidays, 1 day

On Easter weekend, the AIESEC Global network really showed me what it could do. In the past (during my McGill dayzzzz), I have been really jealous when my fellow AIESECers went on exchange/internship, met a group of people from all around the world, became besties with them and celebrated all their holidays and went sight-seeing and traveling together. I'm really happy to say that I am one of those people now, complete with the insane number of events, beautiful pictures, and travel stories...

On Easter Weekend, two very different religious holidays were taking place.... First of all, let me just talk about how Malaysia doesn't give ANY holiday for Easter unless you go to an international school. Ya ya ya okay it is a Muslim country but since you give holiday for Diwali, Chinese New Year and Hari Raya, why not include the Christians too? Anyway..... AIESECers being AIESECers decided to celebrate Easter and Holi on the same day anyways :)

My lovely Polish friends were adamant that we had to paint eggs, eat eggs, ham, easter soup in order to properly celebrate. So we did! Where my friend Zuza managed to find acrylic paints, food colour and paint brushes? I have absolute no idea. All I can say is that the Polish are PRO at painting Easter eggs... and me?... not so much.

Ania and her polish bunny rabbit.... and look out for her polish "Eagle"

 Some people are more skilful than others...

 Hard at work....

After painting our Easter Eggs (which I got REALLY into), we had a strange Easter Egg war where we took our eggs, pointed them at each other, and then created head-on collisions between the eggs to see whose egg was the strongest. I made it to the third round, where sadly, my egg became damaged.

But it was okay because then I ate it and it was really yummy :)

Third round damages

After our Easter Brunch, we headed out to celebrate Holi! I always told people that I wanted to go to India to celebrate Holi. I can pretty confidently say that Malaysia delivers something much like the real experience. Tons of people, tons of colour, tons of water, tons of my indian BEATZ. We headed over to a local temple where 1,000 people were gathered in a parking lot, throwing colour and water at each other. Within this mosh pit of people, not only did I find my AIESEC friends but also, a TON of my co-workers from Mindvalley! It seemed that this event was 50% foreigners, 50% local Indians. 

Check this article that quoted my co-worker, Hussein: http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/holi-draws-1-000-revellers-1.245754?cache=03

And, enjoy the pics!

Holi in KL | March 31st, 2013

We are so clean :)

but not for long!

Although my scalp was died red for a good four days, it was well worth it for the WONDERFUL TIMES that I had celebrating with everyone! Thank you, AIESEC, for such a great day that exemplifies everything that AIESEC is about.