AIESEC, I have just chaired a conference in Lithuania and now I am floating on air. What AIESEC does to me is amazing, and for every little bit of it I get, the more I want.
Being at this conference, "DARE 2010" was my first time back inside AIESEC in over a year since chairing "Drive 2009" in Iceland. And it is a mystery to me why there is a full year in between these two incredible experiences. I feel so happy, so capable, so uplifted, so energized and so driven towards experiencing and improving the world.
Despite I left office 2 years ago, I still met some familiar faces, and it is truely, truely amazing how fast friendships can be revived, I attribute that to the common platform of the AIESEC culture which I am more aware of than ever beats in my heart and run through my veins.
I was asked to give a description of my self at this conference, and when I then looked back I realized that the quality of my life has increased year-on-year since I first encountered AIESEC in the Autumn of 2004. Working with Jonas Bengtson was a huge motivational driver, and an inspiration to become a team leader myself, in the beginning of 2005 I then did become a team leader, working with Kasper Ganer and Mads Lindegaard Larsen - amazing guys. Following this I still can never thank my LCP Stefan for believing in me and sending me to Izmir, Turkey for EuroLDS in March 2005, this was the first place where I really realized how much capacity AIESEC had, and how ready I was to change, things felt right. Even after running unsuccessfully for LCP at CBS, and possibly re-thinking my motivation behind my AIESEC involvement, I continued. This again allowed the goddess of luck to look down on me and help me, since by the end of the summer the new LCP, Dennis called me and offered me the position of LC VP SR. A perfect role for the new emerging me, a chance to work with people and to recruit the right ones. I loved my position, and AIESEC was a highlight for me through a very boring school year of 05/06. By the summer of 2006 I was ready to leave for Erasmus exchange in Reykjavik University, Iceland, I however squeezed in being on the OC for ScaLDS in Denmark, an amazing conference that should turn out to change my life. In the conference I was looking around and gathering impressions to find where in AIESEC I could continue learning and developing, and it was in this search that I spontaniously said to Louise, the MCP, "Enjoy your term, I will succeed you". With those word I left Denmark, and AIESEC in Denmark to go on exhcange, but the thought of running for MCP circled in my head all the time, and with just one month of arriving in Iceland I started using all the moves, all my network, and all my knowledge to move my self into a position where I would successfully run for MCP, and after 5 months of chats, talks, lobbyism and learning through my coach, Carsten, I ran and was elected. With this kicked off a wild and turbulent year starting with IPM in Egypt, another amazing and unforgettable conference.
TBC
