Leadership generations

Hello, CEE!

More than 200 young leaders from all over the world are sitting now in plenary and waiting for the oficial opening of IPM. It's a bit late so we have time to talk to people whom seen at Ic last time, half a year ago in Turkey. every time we get off the plane we see signs on different language or even written in different letters. Already 50 times once in a year international, smiling young crowd appeared in one of the world capitals and it doesn't matter for them, for us - what's the distination: Guatemala, Egypt or Republic of Macedonia. Leadership - the world which would be wirtten on our flag if we have a flag, doesn't have a "homecountry", can't be kept by borders.

Few minutes ago I met my predcessor, Katya, who is now the global coordinator for InBev. I realized that there are 3 generations of Russian MCPs at IPM. Then I looked around: Slovakia, Macedonia, Estonia...there are quite a few countries which are standing in a groups of three, gathered by IPM from different parts of the world: Switzerland, Kazakhstan, France, Belgium.
Yesterday the girl from CC, when we tried to keep the sugar inside the broken pack, asked me if I'm the current MCP of Russia. She turned to be the former LCP of AIESEC Timisoara, the big boss of my MCVP Communication. Victor told me about her, about their last year team, about her experience in Kufunda village in Zimbabve where I hope to go one day...

What I have now in my mind is that the most valuable thing in AIESEC is not only growing number of young people with leaderrship experience, but tough times and happy moments they had, all these small things like night talks, getting lost in the cities, chatting in msn with 8 hours time difference - which tied them together and made any distance just one phonecall long. So the main input for myself stays the same as last year: look around, talk, fall in love, smile, have fun,remember.

Nastya Gulyavina,
MCP 07/08 Russia