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From sleeping on the train station to challenging ourselves on MultiTO

CHALLENGE HUNTERS STORY’S

First part: From sleeping on the train station to challenging ourselves on MultiTO.

Every year current Member Committee in Poland organize conference for new Local Committees Executive Boards. This time we (Magdalena, Antek, Damian, Dominika, Katarzyna, Piotrek B and Piotrek O.) were chosen by you (members) to have this unforgettable experience. We called ourselves “Challenge Hunters” because of from the beginning our preparing to the next term we have to cope with a lot of obstacles and difficulties...
It was the same during our first common conference...

Our journey to Ślesin, where the conference took place, wasn’t easy as we thought. Our first challenge was overcome problems with getting to venue. At 1 am. when we arrived to Konin we received information from OC that our possible transport to Delfin will not came for us. We had to sleep in railway station, which wasn’t nice after 5 hours spent in trains. When we arrived to venue we were angry, tired and sleepy. We thought that we will never forgive OC for that waiting. Next days of conference caused that our opinion about OC changed from anger to love:).We spent funny and nicely time with OC during MultiTO.

MultiTo had the intention to bring knowledge about AIESEC in national and international perspective, building common understanding the role of each person in executive board and empowering to achieving goals, however integration between Committees was important too.

First day of conference took into our heads (especially in male part of EB Kielce) that AIESEC in Poland is managed by women-kind. Only few Committees has similar structure as LC Kielce. But it isn’t problem, because all EB members are strong people who know what they want to achieve.

As we know AIESEC’ers confess some rules, one says: “work hard, play harder”. I have to admit that we executed it 100% :)

During sessions we had the opportunity to gain and share knowledge between different LC’s. We received learning beginning from part which helped us to improve our soft skills, about our roles in LC, we got information’s how manage it, ending on AIESEC History

On sessions we were active: we asked when we didn’t knew something or we were giving answers on questions, after sessions we were talking with others about reality in theirs and ours committee. Our activity didn’t finished on sessions, we saved energy for parties too. Some of you know why we were called Cactuses on MultiTo, for those who don’t know I will explain:
When we were preparing to conference we decided to challenge ourselves, and we made up our minds to dress up on every party in different clothes then others:)...

First party was under the name Western Movies. We concluded that all people will be dressed in cowboys or cowgirls so we started thinking what other things are connected with Wild West. Damian hit on idea that it could be an cactus, we decided to do this. Our dressing appear big success during the party. Thus now You know how the history of Cactuses come from.

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On the each conference one person is very crucial, in AIESEC we called such person as a “chair”. Now I want say something about person who was responsible for opening and closing plenary. It was Anastasia Gulyavina President of Member Committee Russia 2007/08. I have to admit that Anastasia breeze through in our opinion. She shared with us her experience and thoughts about meaning of leadership and what in our life is important. She was very inspirer.

It will be shamed for us if we didn’t mention about people who were responsible for delivering to us knowledge. The FACI Team who was consisted of actual Member Committee of Poland 2007/08 with a leading person Maria Długosz and two guests from AIESEC International: Abishek and Ivan Lopez Global Network Central and Eastern Europe Director.

Their preparation and personal commitment into the conference deserve only for two words: Thank You:)

This conference wasn’t without OC, who consists from LC Wrocław AE members. As I said on the beginning we were angry on them when we arrived to the conference. After this one incident cooperation with them became only pleasure. Other things like venue, food, atmosphere was great. They were ready at hand when we need something.

I want mention about last crucial part of the conference: Delegates. All of them set goals before conference, they knew what they need to improve or what kind of knowledge they have to gain.

This time which we spent together motivated us to achieve goals, and made it easier, because we know that we are not alone and we can count on them.

Now we are waiting for next conference InPut, where we will be planning our term. I hope that it will be at least as good as this one:)

You can be sure that we will share with you about our experience:)...

Labels: Konferencje, LCEB

Magdalena Janiszewska published this post at 8:37 PM