AIESEC is the world’s largest student driven organization.  It provides a leadership development platform for its members by putting them in full control of a global exchange program.  From the President of AIESEC International in Rotterdam, NL all the way down to the over 60,000 members in 110 countries, the program is managed entirely by students.

In Vietnam there are 5 chapters of AIESEC, one of which is based out of Foreign Trade University in Ho Chi Minh City.  It was a small team of AIESECers from FTU that originally contacted us, set up sales meetings, and completed the contracting process to bring German and American interns to TPL.

On a breezy night in District 7, all of AIESEC FTU, the national staff of AIESEC in Vietnam, representatives for partner organizations, and interns gathered in the reception hall of the Unilever building to attend an award ceremony.  Intern Jesse and Admin Team Leader Tuyet attended the ceremony to represent TPL.  Much to their surprise, they arrived to find that Jesse had been nominated for the “Excellent Intern” Award!

During Jesse’s 7.5 months at TPL, he has not only contributed to the community here at TPL, he has also been working to make AIESEC FTU a stronger community.  He attends meetings and gives feedback.  He also mentors two of their members.  In recognition of his outstanding commitments to both TPL and to AIESEC, Jesse was called to the stage to receive his award!

Congratulations and keep up the good work!

We have finally gotten together all of our videos from the final performances of TPL’s Got Talent! The winners were rated by our Board of Directors.  There were 4 criteria the groups had to compete for: Creativity, Preparation, Performance Value, and Audience Support.  With almost 400 people in attendance, you can imagine how deafening the support was!

And now we can announce the much-anticipated results to the world!

In 1st place, we have…

Paper Fashion Show!

Coming in only one point behind in 2nd Place, we have…

Magic Surgery!

And in 3rd Place,

Quyen singing ‘The Climb’!

Congratulations to all of our contestants! You have truly made this an unforgettable holiday season.

What a wild few weeks it has been!  We watched all the TPL’s Got Talent video submissions.  The entire company voted for their top three.  The seven performing acts have toured through Queen Plaza several times and practiced on stage.  Intern Jesse sang “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” over the PA system.  And now we have finally come to the big night!

Tonight we will enjoy a great dinner, play a trivia game, enjoy 7 performances, find out the winner of TPL’s Got Talent, and crown the TPL Employee of the Year!  So much is packed into one show!  We can’t wait to see you all there.  Be sure to take pictures!

Paper Fashion Show!

Quyen singing Donna Donna!

Magic Salon comedy skit!

We look forward to seeing these three performances at our Christmas party on December 9th.  Keep practicing!  The competition isn’t finished yet!

Thank you for all of your hard work! These videos are awesome!  Today we have a magical beauty salon and a music video.

We have been having a great time watching them at the TPL movie theater this week. Today and tomorrow we will show the next 7 videos so that we can vote on Wednesday for the best three videos! I hope you are excited!

TPL, you have submitted some fantastic videos this Friday.  The competition is going to be tight!  We can’t wait to watch all of the submission on the big screen during breaks this week!  We will be posting a movie screening schedule on the walls of the office, so get excited!

First up, we have a sexy dance video from the German Team.  You may need to go take a cold shower after watching this…

Next we have a piano piece. Her fingers are flying!

And last but certainly not least we have a spoof skit of Titanic and Pirates of the Caribbean from the Admin Team. We still haven’t stopped laughing!

Stay posted for two more videos coming Monday…

Khang on the Rug team has submitted a video of him singing.  Check it out!  Also, don’t forget to watch the magic show and fashion show from earlier today!

I know we all enjoyed watching the last two videos on the big screen in our office last Saturday.  Get excited because this Monday and Tuesday we will be showing the rest of the videos during break time!  We will start with these two new submissions.  One is a fashion show that sports clothing handmade out of paper.  The other is a magic show from a new member of the German team!

Fashion show is here, magic show is here.

In case you missed it, this video was featured on Saturday at TPL’s movie theater-style showing of the video submissions.  Intern Jesse and the admin team set up a projector on one wall of the office and showed the video submissions to all of TPL’s staff during their break time.  The only thing that was missing was the popcorn!

Remember TPL, you’ve got until Friday to turn in your videos!