Inspired and Energized

My weekends are more fun, more active and inspiring than my working days. I participate in Rotaract Shanghai, co-organize a Social Enterprise Business Planning workshop series at Fudan University, spend time with my parents, read and catch up with friends.

This past weekend was particularly good. At the social enterprise biz planning, we started to present various ideas around various issues: aging population, education problems, environmental problems, social innovation, etc. Some of us was creative and down-to-earth with their ideas and plans. It would be cool to join them and start my own social entrepreneurial experiences.

Then I met 2 young entrepreneurs who are running an education business - sending high school students all over China to NYC, US for a mini UN assembly conference. Meaningful and profitable. I especially admire their courage to do it on their own instead of pursuing a conventional career path. One of them was MCP China 2 years after my term. One of them gave up his i-banker job after 1.5 years.

I might be in touch with an extremely small population of youth in China who are courageous and exposed. Anyhow, this is a very encouraging signal. With AIESEC rolling out bigger and bigger in this country, with the social entreprise business planning workshop series rolling out in more big cities in China, we can make a difference in this generation!