Warsaw - the real life

I'm still in the same mood than yesterday night, feeling between two realities, one finished, but the other one not started, yet.
Sitting in the student dormitory room of Woland, member of the OC of YOU CAN! and listening to Alanis Morissette makes me relfect the last weeks over and over again, but it starts to feel nice somehow and I'm starting to enjoy the thoughts about my time in Poland and the team.
Yesterday we had to sneak in the building, climbing over the security fence, otherwise they would have charged me and Terka for staying at Wolands room, which serves already three other guys as sleeping and living place. The next time I complain about the size of my room, i'll just imagine two other people sleeping in it, as my room probably has the same size than this one. We got drunk as we used to do for over 14 days now and played table soccer, but I fucking suck in this game, so we had to stop, because it was always over after 2 minutes as the other team scored goal after goal.
This morning I stood up to check the internet for the stuff for my infotech exam, but, well I can't concentrate on that shit right now, so we just started to prepare for a little city trip round Warsaw...
Peace

Experience the seconds of life

It's been quite a while since I've last updated this blog, but today I feel the need to write some lines about my time in Warsaw, Poland and the AIESEC YOU CAN! Conference...
it's the day after closing and people from the OC, which I was working in, start to pack their things, write some last lines for their sugar cubes and start to leave one by one. My first experience of making friends in only a few days most probably was during DO IT in Switzerland, but this time, after those incredible two weeks in this team of 13 people from all around the world, it's hard to accept that it's over and that we must leave each other towards completely different directions in this world.
All those individuals dedicated all their energy in the last weeks to make this conference the success it was, didn't sleep, worked hard for the delegates to feel comfortable, took responsability without the need and wish to get something back for all the time, all the work they invested.
I had high expectations for the upcoming weeks and all of them were highly fulfilled or even topped.
Once more I realized, that if people wokr together towards one common goal you can create an existance, that, without you, would not be part of this world. The whole conference, the seven days for around 200 people from 55 different countries, all gathered together at one place to gain knowledge and make friends, would simply not exist without the team of 13 people that took the responsability to create the reality of those seven days.
I have this strange feeling right now, that you have as a kid on sunday evenings, knowing that the freedom and excitement of the week-end soon will be replaced by the less exciting reality of the structured week and to be honest I am sad of leaving, I feel bad of loosing all the people to the less exciting reality of being seperated by hundreds of kilometers.
But what I take home with me is the experience of living the seconds of life, enjoying the beautiful details of existance and the sense of giving without taking but recieving something anyways.
Warsaw YOU CAN!

Hip-Hop Empathy!!!!

Allright, allright......
Finally the day was there...Saturday the 17th. at Hacienda Lounge, probably the hottest spot in whole Toronto that night.
Doors opened at 20:30 and soon it was packed enough to start the event and let the artists do their thing.
I let the pictures speak.......

Peace...Matt

MasiaONE

MasiaONE

Good shit needs support, that's why I really would like you to check that rapper out. I saw her for the first time performing at the Big Norm Show last thursday.....

If you like to see her in action click here

as well as her website: www.masiaone.com

I love that milkman song!!!

Matt

Toronto's dope!!!

Allright, allright...after seeing yesterdays amazing BIG NORM SHOW at a club in Kensington theres one thing I need to say: "Torontos Hip-Hop scene is DOPE". I felt like being moved back into the 80's. The ultimate street hustlers were performing live on stage, such as MasiaOne, PHATCat, Jorgie Porgie and a beatbox crew called SickSoundSyndrom. The show was hosted by a guy, that calles himself Big Norm, dressed up like Michael Jackson...THAT WAS SICK... With a mixture of rap, beatboxing, breakdancing and stand-up comedian the artists gave their best to show the audience that hip-hop culture is far from being dead.
Peace...
Matt

DONATION

Hey guys!!!

Actually Ahmed opened a PayPal Account and you'll be able to donate money from now on, to get the kids in Kibera off the streets and into the classroom. Just click on the little white button, I linked to my blog, that says 'Donation' on the right corner.

Thanks for your help...Matt

WHY SHOULD I CARE...I TELL YOU WHY!!!

Getting the kids to give a damn. Students film Kenyan slums in hopes of inspiring students to take action.
By: Jacqueline Nunes September.13.2005

SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF!!!

We all were waiting for the day the article about the movie was supposed to be published in the 'EYEOPENER'. But actually seeing ourselves in the magazine was an amazing feeling. To see the Northern Lights and being on a picture in a canadian newspaper after being here for 5 days...that's......it is........it's COOL.

Read the article online and learn more about the project on: http://www.theeyeopener.com/storydetail.cfm?storyid=2053

Peace...Matt

ATHENS!!!
This goes out to my beloved sister, who is leaving to Athens the next days. Have fun and enjoy the food, the sea, the peeps and the ouzo. Well, be carefull with the last one. Hope you're doing fine.

This goes out to everyone:
Check out: www.whyshouldicare.net to know everything about the film from Kenya and the project itself.
To view a trailer made by Alex check out: www.whyshouldicare.net/trailers.htm or use the link on the page mentionned above.

allright, I gotta go to eat something...HOT DOGS, weeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Peace
Matt