Day 2

Really, Day 2 commenced 5 hours after breakfast at 12pm, when we had the morning plenary. It was all fine and dandy and vaguely exciting until we had to do a ROLL CALL. Can we recall any roll calls? No. What did we do? Reprise the fond memories of our sarong day sand sang Dayong Sampan to the entire delegation (complete with rowing actions!). hahahah which they totally digged (dug) so thank god for that. At this rate we could well boil blue glutinous rice balls and convince everyone that it's our national dish.






After lunch we proceeded to MENA CAFE, which was a larger scale version of our Connection Time at NLDS - we signed up for Social Development and Economic Crisis in the MENA Region. Discussion was rather stilted. with overtly pertinent issues like religious intolerance and religious-political amalgamation not brought up at all, and we figured it's probably due to the self censorship suggested by the CC earlier in the day - apparently there's secret police deployed at the conference to check on the proceedings, and we were all discouraged from speaking privately with any strangers about our perspectives on controversial issues altogether. A few days later we learnt from the Bahrainis over dinner that Qatar banned all Aiesec related conferences within the region after discovering facebook pictures of foreigners consuming alcoholic beverages at the earlier MENAXLDS sessions, and Bahrain helped revive their aiesec culture by organizing a Gulf Conference, which was later permitted. Pretty damn impressive, I must say. To that, we say, Yay! Bahrain!


There was a party in the night but we wound up tumbling back to our room after dinner and collapsed, at all of 10pm (4am Singapore time). Anyway, lucky for us, especially since the party was a supposed flop with many other Aiesecers dancing/grooving with senior citizens (and i mean it)!