Sunday, January 29, 2006

International This!

In recent world events the International Junior Representatives (think alex and kelly...but for the whole WOLRD. mind boggling, we know. also known as the IJRs and commonly referred to as Astrid and James, Apple and Jucie and A&J) held their MWM in the big NYC.

wonderous WORKING GROUPS
delightful DECISIONS
premium PLANNING

all available for your viewing at: http://www.ijr.cisv.org/

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

M-W-M (imagine all the letters are rotating)

Here at NJR Headquarters in Washington...um, I mean Ottawa... um, I mean Kingston/Halifax, Kelly and Alex are always hard at work keeping the CISV JB Canada cranks running. But this weekend we took a little vacation (don't worry, we paid a local neighborhood boy to water the plants and feed the cat while we were gon). But this was no ordinary vacation. This vacation had it's own acronym. It was called MWM 2006.

Now, MWM is a commonly confused acronym. Alex originally thought it stood for "Meal With your Mom", and one point during National Camp 2005 Kelly mistook it for "Murray's Wicked Moustache" and CISV Canada president Rick Uy has been pretty sure for the past year that it stands for "My Wife's a Mom!" But these are misconceptions. In actual fact, the mysterious acronym dates back hundreds of years and originates from the latin Middus Winterae Maximus, which, today has evolved into the contemporary Mid Winter Meeting!

But what is a MWM, you might be wondering?
Well friends, Mid Winter Meeting is a very important time of the year when the executive board of CISV Canada gets together to meet and discuss the direction of our very own national association: CISV canada. From international to national programs, from incident report forms to abstentions and from coast to coast mid winter meeting is a wondeful work bonanza!

Hot Topics this year included
absentions: negative or neutral?
To develop or not to develop a JB fund?
Committees: one or many members?
NBM 2005 evaluation: rock or roll?
AIM (Annual International Meeting) 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2050
(ok, maybe only 2006 and 2009)
Our execise was well in order as we sprang from the meeting table to Wendy's back yard where the super-ultra executive think-tank was located to discuss on some controversial and complex topics such as the International Junior Representative (IJR) nominations.
Guest appearances from Rowan and not so guest appearances from Roman definately constructed the highlights of the weekend.
Now back at NJR central, alex and kelly long for their true-love: the CISV canada national executve. Only 99 days... or something... until they meet again at the Spring Board Meeting in May! until then, over and out.

International Poultry Project










(In the above scene, the first frame shows Kelly and
Alex proudly displaying the newly aquired chickens for the new CISV International Poultry Project. In the second frame, National Risk manager Cory Kotzian threatens Kelly with a knife, trying to steal one of the chickens! Oh no! In the third frame, we see Kelly and Alex debriefing the situation, discussing ways Kelly might avoid confrontational knife threats in the future. In the end, the national exec consumed the chicken and table the motion to implement the International Poultry Project within CISV Canada this year.)

Monday, January 02, 2006