Monday, June 30, 2008

Thank you and see you!

Today was the last official day of our term.

I was thinking of writing a post to say thank you, but I rather want to tell you the story about an amazing year. I would say the most amazing year of my AIESEC experience.

If you ever think in your life whether to take a challenge or not: take it! There are so many things you will learn you never thought...

At the beginning of the term Geri was asking me how I am going to change. Than I thought that at the age of 25 it is not that easy to change and I am actually not going to change.

Now, 13 months later I have learned to listen and ask the right questions, I see beyond the words. There are also few very practical things I learned: how to travel cheap, work from any place, live on a tight budget, never freak out when traveling to a foreign country, etc. But this is nothing compared to the fact that in 13 months I worked with people from almost 50 countries!

Traveling for two months around different countries in order to support them in providing more quality life changing AIESEC experiences. Discovering different ways of cooking, public transport systems, currencies, different working and partying styles. Having amazing conversations about life, the universe and everything else.

How can you ever put in words those things?

There are not even enough words to express how grateful I am to each of you who I have met on my way. I can only say THANK YOU and say from the bottom of my heart.

Thank you for giving me the inspiration and feeling of being proud to be a CEEtizen. Thank you for teaching me how to understand better the region we are living.

Thank you!

It turned into a thank you post at the end :).

And now I will be moving for my X experience, so would be glad to see you around!

Friday, June 27, 2008

GN Board Transition

Hello AIESEC in CEE!

This is the first post from your new GN Board! And it is to tell you a little bit about how our transition is going on...

Right now Barbara and Juli are in Rotterdam, together with Mo, Ivan and the current GN Board... we've been discussing the external trends in the region, the internal current reality, the history of the region, our performance in the past 4 years... we've also talked about our role in the GN Board and the timeline of the activities that will happen during the year... and we started our GN Board Plan!

We're still waiting for the 3rd GN Board member to arrive to Rotterdam: Juan is still solving some visa issues and is coming to meet us here as soon as he can!

Next week we're going to Prague, to meet all the CEE and WENA MCPs. And after that, we come back to Rotterdam, to meet the boards from all the GNs and participate in the "GN Board Training Camp", that is organized by AI to prepare us to start our term.

And the last week of our transition will be from 14 to 18 of July, when we'll have the final plan for the CEE GN Board for 08-09... and then, we are ready to go back to Budapest and Istambul and ROCK THE HOUSE!

We hope you guys have a very nice start of your term... and we are all very excited to work with you during this year!

Your GN Board 08-09: Barbara, Juan, Juli