Sauna and Gala
Thursday went even lazier than Wednesday. Again, I woke up at noon, but instead of taking a hike, I decided to enjoy some other things offered by the resort, the sauna and the pool. We alternated between the pool and sauna and invented a new pool game that involves bouncing balls on the water. I'll spare the details.
Feeling extremely refreshed after several hours of pool and sauna, we got ready for HEC's alumni gala. To me, the word "gala" implies wearing a tux, but I had been talked out of bringing anything very formal. The best we could do was jeans, dress shoes, and button up shirts.
The gala was in a room at HEC, which is the fancy business school of the University of Montreal. It was as pretty and modern as any school I've seen, and had a huge display in the main lobby with current exchange rate, stock indexes, commodity prices, et cetera. Very businessy. In the gala room, there was wine and beer and food, and lots of people dressed slightly more formal than we, but nothing extreme, so we actually fit in.
I talked to lots of AIESECers there, many actually from France, but not any alumni, the people for whom the gala was held. There was a presentation about what the LC was doing, about what AIESEC internationally was doing, and about how alumni donations could help. It was all in French, so I don't know much more than was in English on the slides. After the presentation, we chatted more for awhile, before bringing some of our AIESEC GT flavor to the scene. We Americans broke out our famous dance to the song Bebot by the Black Eyed Peas to the amazement and delight of the crowd. Americans and Canadians alike followed with the dance to Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mendhi.
After being very indecisive about where to go for dinner afterwards, we went with many of the attendees for some shawarma. We ate and parted ways.
Feeling extremely refreshed after several hours of pool and sauna, we got ready for HEC's alumni gala. To me, the word "gala" implies wearing a tux, but I had been talked out of bringing anything very formal. The best we could do was jeans, dress shoes, and button up shirts.
The gala was in a room at HEC, which is the fancy business school of the University of Montreal. It was as pretty and modern as any school I've seen, and had a huge display in the main lobby with current exchange rate, stock indexes, commodity prices, et cetera. Very businessy. In the gala room, there was wine and beer and food, and lots of people dressed slightly more formal than we, but nothing extreme, so we actually fit in.
I talked to lots of AIESECers there, many actually from France, but not any alumni, the people for whom the gala was held. There was a presentation about what the LC was doing, about what AIESEC internationally was doing, and about how alumni donations could help. It was all in French, so I don't know much more than was in English on the slides. After the presentation, we chatted more for awhile, before bringing some of our AIESEC GT flavor to the scene. We Americans broke out our famous dance to the song Bebot by the Black Eyed Peas to the amazement and delight of the crowd. Americans and Canadians alike followed with the dance to Tunak Tunak Tun by Daler Mendhi.
After being very indecisive about where to go for dinner afterwards, we went with many of the attendees for some shawarma. We ate and parted ways.
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