Hello :-)
I would like to place the blame for the recent comatose state of my blog solely and completely on the above.
And to all you wise ones who choose to point out the existance of the HP cafe and wifi in the plenary...okay okay i was a little lazy , happy now.

I was in lovely Polska again and all was good and i am in a happy mood..
IC has been ...interesting, beautiful,introspective,exhilerating,FUN,exhausting,annoying,
bewildering,humbling and has fulfilled all necessary requirements
for it to be inducted into my 'will not forget for a long time' stash of memories..
I have had so many reunions,,,,so many -'im so glad to see you again' hugs-....the people i met made me remember the 18 year old geraldine...the 19 year old geraldine and the geraldine last yr...and helped me discover the geraldine I am today....It was interesting to fill people up on lost time,,to listen to what people have been up to...and wonder why im so bad at keeping in touch.

It was humbling to sit on a room with 91 countries and know that im pretty lucky to have this experience .
Ive heard ppl say that , 'you never really know when you are making a memory'...well i think IC was a super humungous exception ..At every moment of IC, I knew there was no way im forgetting this....Im not talking only about the big events -The Cool Pre Meet,the Opening Ceremony and the Global Village,DLD, LN Day ,Official dinner and of course meeting my favourite Bulgarians Emo,Eli,Tsveti and Ivo ...for the first time in person.....

Even the small things, like having a cool conversation with the Palestine Expansion responsible in the bathroom line, having a social anthropology discussion on aiesec with a fellow anthro student on the way to Polish Night, Escorting a 'high sprited' (ahem) alumnus with a Slovakian friend and being a part of one of the wierdest and unexplainable course of events that followed , draping a sari by myself for the first time with the help of a Russian on the Bangladeshi MC and a Lithuanian on the Ghanian MC, Practicing my conversational skills in my pitiful and laughable Tamil with Geraldine (yeaap) MC ER from the Malaysian Delgation ,
meeting all the Krakow members that I saw recruited as newies two years ago,
meeting with my first match in AIESEC ,Justyna Fracz and spending quality time with her in Warsaw,discovering that if I was Bulgarian, my name would be Gregana/Geraldina Nayagama (!!!?!!!),
Salsa lessons with a mexican friend and meringue with an Egyptian friend
the SSGN party :-D, CEE party :-D, WENA party :-D, parties in general :-D
bonding with a fellow indian on the mysteries that await me in the Balkans,discovering new friends and wierdly drifting away from some old ones....

I guess that IC, like everything else is platform, that everyone explores differently and everyone comes back with a unique set of experiences that are really a reflection of their own personality and what kind of place they are in cognitively and emotionally...

I know that im always going to cherish the oportunity that I had to live an IC, to live in a parallell reality where the whole world lives in exactly 3 blocks called Feniks, Adara and Dendryt, a place where life had a fixed agenda and I needed to flash a badge to get into my room....
all together a great experience ...and now in retrospect..maybe the plastic flavoured food wasnt such a big deal after all...