Coincidence?

I'm now adding on to my list the number of AIESEC Alumni I meet in non-AIESEC countries..... today's meeting was exceptionally coincidental...

After months of searching..... I finally find an HR specialist company in Libya...... I call the General Manager and set up a meeting with him... the guy had exceptially good English.... not strange for well educated Libyans..... but the first I've seen in a Libyan Company....

So I meet with the guy today, sit with him.... he explains what his company does.... basically recruitment and performance management and business organisation...... I'm interested in the recruitment part... so I ask more about that... the guy, very technically explains their recruitment process..... how they make the company fill forms and the job seeker fill forms and they MATCH them on their database..... MATCH - very familiar word!!!! No recruitment agency has every explained it that way..... so I probe further and ask: - 'Where are you from?'.... and the guy goes 'Tunisia....' so I think....hmm possible AIESEC Alumni..... this is put a side and the work chat goes on....

After all the work chat.... as is the custom in Libya, you sit with the person, have a coffee and possibly a cigarette and chat about everyday life..... a bit about yourself etc etc.....

So this guy tells me that he worked with Fedex before in Egypt and Libya..... so a bell rings.... hmm who do I know that also did that!!! - ATEF!!!! - Atef was on training in Fedex Egypt and then went off to Fedex Libya.... Atef is also Tunisian.... so I subtly say...
Thea: 'Ahh I know a guy who was in training in Egypt last year and worked in Libya too'
Pause to see reaction
Thea: 'Also Tunisian...'
Manager: 'Atef'
Thea: 'YES!!! I met him while I was living in Egypt he was on training then'
Manager: 'Ah yes... I worked with Atef'
Thea: 'I've known Atef for many years.....'
Manager: 'AIESEC?'
Thea: 'Yes..... I met him at a conference many year ago... in Tunisia'
Manager: 'MMS 99!'
Thea: (totally surprised!) 'YES!!! You're and AIESECer too...'
Manager: 'Yeap... was LCP and in the MC went to IC South Africa, Eurolds Turkey, Medoc Tunisia etc etc'
Thea: 'WOW..... no wonder all the matching AIESEC jargon'
So the talk went on on SN and TN etc etc.....

This does not end here...... so the private discussion went further:
Manager: 'My wife is Egyptian an ex-AIESECer too'
Thea: 'What's your wife's name?' (suddenly recalling that Tamer had given me the e-mail address of an AUC ex-AIESECer who is married to a Tunisian working in Libya)
Manager: 'Mai'
Thea: 'Mai? Ex-AUC AIESECer..... ahh I've been given her e-mail address from Tamer.... who was recruited by Mai many years ago..... he told me to get in touch with her...'
Manager: 'Great..... we'll meet up for coffee the 3 of us one of these days'

So that is where the story ends - and I've made myself another two friends in Libya....... the world is such a small place, and the more I travel around and understand the smaller it becomes.......... only 7years ago, still trapped in my little island, I thought the world was unreachable something impossible to discover......now I know you can hold the effervescent ball called world in the palm of your hands ......