It was the first time for me to experience a conference from the perspective as a trainer. Together with Christine I was allowed to facilitate a workshop for twelve new members, leading them in their first discovery of AIESEC. I am very happy how everything worked out well; all the sessions we designed before ran smoothly and I think we managed to put a clear focus on the unique possibilities of AIESEC: having amazing leadership opportunities, the chance to start creative projects and getting intercultural experiences through our international network.
Random moments:
... listening to Lars, a member who joined my LC half a year ago, giving a small presentation on Taking Responsibility and realizing what an awesome experience every single member is living in AIESEC.
... talking to Mareike, LCP Twente (Netherlands), my colleague from our partner LC, about the life of an LCP and realizing, that 800 great people all over the world feel just the way I am.
... meeting our amazing chair Alina from Romania, France and UK for the first time in the office, knowing from the start what a good job she would do.
... walking through the venue and being greeted by "Muenster Monster" (a part of our LCs culture) shouts at every corner.
... having a goodbye-round with the executive board of AIESEC Osnabrueck - their LC will be dissolved now - a extremely sad moment. Looking into their faces and listening to the speech of Kai from my team I realized how much energy they have put into AIESEC and how much they personally have gained - even if in the end they did not succeed.
... going through the meetings of all our functinal teams, being warmly greated by all of them with a nice strong drink ;).
... geeting individual feedback from all the delegates in my workshop - both areas for improvement and praise... seeing how much they have learned in those three days and what great persons joined our organizations!
More than half of my term as an LCP has passed. Remembering the last MOMS in May I see how much I have developed and changed as a person. Obviously, the way was not always easy and I have been through a lot of rough patches (as my friends know). But it was definitely worth it!
Tomorrow we are having our elections. I am looking forward to listen to the speech of the candidate for LCP. I am looking forward to the period of transition and to three more months as a LCP. I am looking forward to whatever awaits me in AIESEC after my term.
Thank you all for this amazing weekend, for the last nine month, thank you AIESEC for the last two years! Special Thanks to all my Monsters!
Nicolas
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You can find some pictures from the weekend on our Flickr-Account - Micha and Philipp put them there.
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