My world

Hey,

I’m writing you from the last morning plenary. Around me there are 600 people dancing, screaming,… they all have the same objective but they cover more than 100 countries!!! I don’t know when I wrote you last but i guess it’s some time ago! There is happening so much here, so I’ll tell you the two key stories of the last days.

First one was yesterday morning in a session about the GN initiatives. I realized I’m still very weak in the field of exchange and that it’s actually such a nice field to have some expertise in. We saw different parts of the world present their projects to raise the eXchange numbers, and there were so many we could participate in. I was once again amazed!! And I hope AIESEC EHSAL will be able to participate in some of this projects!

Second one was the Official dinner. We dressed up (it was 30 degrees)a were sweating our ass of in the busses on our way to the venue for the dinner. On this dinner BELGUIM won the UBS excellence award for the WENA region. It’s an award for the realizations of the last year(‘s). It was a wonderful moment to be recognized by the full AIESEC network. It also gave a lot of energy to the new team and all participants of the Belgium delegation. Afterwards we still had a way to hard party but I’m happy I’m in the morning plenary now! BTW: On the cup, our country name was changed into BELGUIM!

Lets head off for the MY aiesec.net presentation

Greetz

Ps: pictures you can find on : http://www.duivenkot.org/pictures/main.php?g2_itemId=25400

Ola,

Saturday we had some  sessions in our personal track, it was cool to meet the people who where doing the same as I was doing but the content of the sessions was rather disappointing, although I had some conversation with other LCP, coming from other realities.

In the afternoon we had sessions about several topics,  the most interesting one for me was the “’I’m an AIESECER campaign” where we learned to describe our feeling of the AIESEC eXPerience.

A quite day, but in the end I was tiered and I was feeling very weak so I went to bed early and decided to give myself a sleep in. I feel much better right now and I’m ready to kick off the second part of the conference. Still for and a half days to go.

Greetings

Hey all,

Today I have got one of the best AIESEC experiences. Today we had AI transition. The old PAI gave the floor to the new one and they transmitted symbolically the vision for AIESEC  2010. Both team here on stage and were sharing their experiences. It was the most powerful moments I’ve ever lived in this organization. I was almost crying!!!!

Today I also discovered that my AIESEC experience has not ended yet, and cannot end in the end of this year. There is so much more to learn, experience,…  In which direction I want to go I don’t know yet, but I still want to contribute to this organization for more than only my LCP term!!!

We had also the first LCP track today. More than 150 LCP’s from all over the world are present on this IC. It was nice  to get to know some of them and to see that we are all challenging the same issues. In the next day’s there will be way more possibilities to do some exchange of experience.

Tomorrow the Development leaders day will kick off, lets see what this IC can contribute to my personal development.

Greetings and have a good night from Turkey

Dear all,

 
Finally some time to write! The last two days have been really busy. The conference has been started!!!! And it is an amazing experience!!!

 
Day 0:

 
The first day of the conference starts with the opening plenary. You have to imagine a room with 700 people from 100 countries each trying to let everyone remember their country. There was so much energy during the 2 hour during roll call session. People screaming, laughing,… maybe for the new countries even crying!!! I’ve never seen such an amazing and diverse room.

Afterwards we went on to global village (county market) to taste the different kinds of food en do a quick journey around the world. Again we saw amazed people, looking funny, stupid (we had Belgium hair!!!).

Afterwards we attended the opening ceremony with some dances from all  over turkey, speeches from very important persons (even the Meir of Istanbul).

Days 0 was probably the most international and powerful day of my life.

 
Day 1:

 
We got sessions about the basic AIESEC ideas, rather a more absorbing day, where we got a lot of useful and les useful knowledge.  Hopefully we will get some international experience as we are now heading off for the AP party (Asia-pacific) where there will be …. (keep updated)

 Greetings

Hey all,

Just back from the party, the weather is so nice (but way to warm, it’s killing me) we can have our parties outside at the tennis court of the university.

Today was full of sessions about what we can and hopefully will do in the next year. They gave presentation about different opportunities (conferences, projects,…) and we got a clear image what there was to do in the WENA network. I had also the chance to meet with my colleague LCP, which was very cool cause we were able to share our feeling at the moment and we got  immediately connected on all of our issues, although we where only whit five and I hope more lcp will join soon.

Tomorrow the last day of preconference, and then the real IC can kick off, I’m really looking forward to it.

Have a good night

Way to hot greetings

Hey all,

I’ve my first break here at IC, so time to keep you posted.

Traveling:

Traveling to the venue was really a challenging experience. We left Brussels around 20H with the plane, and landed at 2o’clock in the morning Turkish time (GMT+2)  at Ataturk airport. And than, the adventure began.  We were totally lost at the airport as there were no people from AIESEC waiting for us. In the Starbucks (first time in my live) we met some other delegation also waiting for pick up.

Around 4am someone from the organizing team showed up to take us with a bus trip for one hour to the venue (an amazing venue BTW). After a very long extra hour of check in we could finally get in our rooms at 6am!!!! The flight from Brussels to Istanbul took us less time than the transport to our room J

Day -3

This was today, the first day of the conference. After 3 hours of sleep I was feeling ready to meet no one, and sleep another sleep, but apparently we had to start of the sessions, and there were 300 people at breakfast all eager to talk to you. The morning started of very well. Luckily our MCP, Andries took a bit care of me and guided me to the first session (than you mate) .

After I got awake, during the opening of the day, I was ready to start enjoying the conference. We had sessions and I could directly feel the power of the AIESECERS around me. It’s amazing to be here and the feeling I have cannot be put on paper. I had a conversations with people I never met before about the organization where I was committing to for the last 3 year, and it felt like normal. First time since long I could talk about my passion!!!!! I’m so happy to experience this!!!! And above all, these people came from: Peru, Tanzania, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Spain, USA, UK,… (I can still keep typing for some timeJ.

I’m really enjoying my time her, and it is really the right place for me to be right now so I would like to thank all people who gave me the opportunity to be here, and above all those who pushed me to attend this conference.

I’m heading back to sessions right now. I’ll keep you updated.

Overexcited greetings from a tired Pieter

Hey,

Do you want to see more than only my eXPerience on IC, Connect to IC live: http://live.myaiesec.net. There will be pictures, mesages, videao’s,…

greetings

In less than 24 hours I’ll be starting one of the bigger adventures in my live. After 3 years in AIESEC, where I had the opportunity to gain a lot of skills, I’ll finally have the opportunity to meet up with the bigger AIESEC network. Tomorrow I’ll be leaving to IC in Turkey, a conference where over 600 delegates, more than 100 externals, 103 countries … will gather for Two weeks to share their knowledge.

This conference should be the “once in a lifetime eXPerience” where I’ will be able to Kick off my year as President of AIESEC IN EHSAL. I’m really looking forward to live this conference, but more to share the energy I’ll find there with all of you when I’ll be back(1^st of September)!!!

But I won’t leave without any trail, for all those who would like to feel the power of this conference, please stay tuned via this Weblog.

Hope all of you are enjoying the rest of your holidays.

Greetings and talk to you soon!

Over-energized greetings

Hey,

Today was a very exciting day, it’s the First day of my last week before IC, this weekend was full of IC preparation, shopping, reading,… And now I’m just back from the Last IC preparation meeting. We were talking about rollcals, global village, delegate meetings,… I could really feel the energy of the Belgium delegation who will leave for IC. O my god I’m so looking forward to this conference. I will try to keep you up to date, with news, stories and hopefully some picture, but also keep track of the IC live forum, where the atmosphere of IC will be viewable live!!!!

Hope to be able to transmit the power of this conference to all of you!!!