I want to tell about one recent meeting. It was not the first external meeting in my life. Hope it was not the last one. But it was a VERY SPECIAL meeting for me.

It was a meeting with a boarding-school , as a part of pbox research.

Actually, it was not my meeting, but Natasha's. She told them about the project, held the discussion, everything, but what impressed me was the flow and passion of the meeting.

I cannot say I've heard much about boarding schools or have a clear vision of them. I tried to do my best to prepare and read info about them, but still, all my past experience limited to marginal, hardly-rememberable encounterings with children from an orphanages near my home back in Tashkent. I just remembered their poor faces and nothing else. So, when going there I prepared myself to have a completely new experience.

But it was even more than that: I could literally feel the passion of those teachers working at that boarding school, you should have heard how they described their boarding-school and how they themselves came up with ideas how to help their children.

Incredible. There are not many places where you'll feel; that: you just come and tell about a project, your wish to develop and help, and reasons for, ad about your organisation, tell them about your feelings towards that issue, and that look at you, and there comes a stroke of kghtening or just a sroke of luck, or just a stroke, and you understant each other. And you feel you are talking one and the same thinbg. And that thing is the wish to help people around you, people, who might even don't rrealise about existance, and may never learn about you, but still you know about them , and you want to help them.

Just because you feel passionate about that. Just because you want to help. Just becuase you want to make a positive impact. Just because you believe you are a person, who can make changes. Just because you are in AIESEC. And together with other passionate people around you - young and elderly, from your country or from places on the opposite of the globe, similar and different - together you just lead change. For the better. And you feel great becuase of it.

That was what I saw in Natasha's eyes, and that was what impressed me and, I believe, impressed those teachers. And that was what convinced them that we CAN HELP and the we WILL HELP.

According to formal writing, the last paragraph should be a conclusion. But I don't want to conclude. I just want to make this post the first one in your observations of those new cool experinces we gain while talking to experts.

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It's up to us ;)!

 
Posted by Olga Kuznetsova at 8:14 PM