It has been a year...

Nalds 2005, Germany

It has been a year since I attended a conference called Nalds. Many words have been said about it, many stories from the conference are shared in our LC. But there is nothing more than spending this amazing week in Sonnenberg. Last year I was very excited about going there. I was a bit worried what to expect because everybody was highly recommending this event to me.

What actually happened?

I spent there one amazing week when I:

- was trying to define my values and vision

- was challenged a lot by my faci

- was in very inspiring homegroup with seven other people

- reflected a lot on my way of living

- experienced international conference for the first time

This week I received a letter. It was not the usual one that I’m used to receive. This one was written in my handwriting and it was a letter that I wrote exactly one year ago during the last evening at Nalds. It was very nice to read all my thoughts and imagine all the changes that happen in my life during this year. I wish to have an opportunity to live this experience again…

Czech spirit in Lithuania

I simply love this picture...
Me, Hanka, Jarda, Zuzka and Lucka.

Energy 2006 ... Baltic experience

It has been more than week since this amazing conference finished and I still feel the spirit of the conference deep in my heart. I would never say that just one week can have such a big impact on me:

- help me to discover more about myself

- experience real team spirit

- push my limits in terms of sleeping and given energy:-)

- give me a lot of new motivation and inspiration for my work

- show me how my impact can look like

…that means Incredible First Faci Experience!!!

Energy 2006, Siauliai ,Lithuania - Faci Premeeting

When going to Vilnius by bus with Hana, we weren’t very sure what to expect. We didn’t know if somebody would pick us up, if we had a place where to stay for a night etc. After we arrived to Vilnius, we were amazed because Giedrus (OC member) was waiting there and then took special care of us – he was our guide for the whole day and in the evening he took us together with Irena and Ümit to Siauliai by his car. Btw. that was excellent unplanned teambuilding in a car …

During Tuesday almost all facis (Slavik…hmm?) arrived to the site of the premeeting and we slowly started with planned teambuildingJ Next two days were in the name of sessions preparation. These days were full of touches, getting to know each other, learning, work and fun.

For the X-track, we managed to create Czech-Estonian cooperation
of facis that included me, Hana, Kadi and Siim. The AIESEC XP Simulation was the most challenging task for all of us. I was ready to fight with it with my co-faci - Jonathan aka Tiger from Hong-Kong.

At the end of the premeeting, even though all of us still had a lot of work, we managed to have chill-out together and slowly got to the conference mood and also all of us received our black faci T-shirts ;-)

I will never forget …

- sorting of thousands of printed copies for AIESEC XP simulation at 3 o’clock in the morning

- singing “Just call me…”

- touching each others knees

- tiger flipchart

- our faci playlist that reminds me still the memories from Energy

Local Training Conference 2006

LTC 2006, Sec u Pardubic...

What happend? 24 newies, EB, 6 TLs, oldies and alumnies met together to spend 3 unforgettable days together.

I have been to LTC three times. But still it has some magic for me.

For the first time, I was a confused newie who had no clue what was going on around - many dances, roll calls, strange abbreviations and wild parties. Those were my memories after one weekend spent with AIESEC. For the second time, I was a teamleader who was excited about building up a new team composed of newies.

And the third time? I had a responsibility of a conference manager. For me, it was one of the most challenging roles that I had in AIESEC. It was not only because of the responsibility itself but also because of a lot of changes that were made in the concept of the conference. At the same time, I was a facilitator, which allowed me to get in touch with our newies. I enjoyed facilitation of our home group a lot, especially seeing the development of the team work and team communication within the group.

These both roles were very demanding but thanks to our newies I still had enough energy to manage them with a smile on my face. They were my source of motivation during the whole conference.

But I was not the only one working on the conference…

The chair (Matthias) brought a lot of inspiration, EB team spent many hours facilitating home groups, our OC did amazing job during the whole conference and the outdoor team ensured the high level of craziness all the time.

This is my experience from my third LTC. It also made me think what my role would be at this conference next year – delegate, alumni, MC visit, LCP…?!? Still a lot of time to decide.