That was one of the longest days in my entire life. Imagine you are waking up at 7.30 because OC in knocking in the door asking us not to forget anything for Global Village. Then you go wo a shower and there is no water there :)
Then you run to a dinner tent to be one of the first and not to stand in the line because of logistics and amount of people there (I will surely put here photo of that line). And then you are running to a plenary because you want to sit in the first raws and look to those people speaking there in the eyes and see there the future of AIESEC in general and the future of AIESEC in Kyiv.
OK. So, we started in the morning with roll calls. Can you, guys, imagine over 90 countries presenting their roll calls. At the beginning it is interesting and at the end you are almost sleeping :) And in the middle whole ukrainian delegation is going out to repear our roll call once more time and in the end we just sing a song. Crazy AIESECers :)
Opening plenary is finished and I go to a dorminotary to take stuff for Global Village and back and it takes around 20 minutes because of the distances. Over the road to the center of Warsaw where the whole event was running you are traveling in a bus with tunisian guys singing and singing so loud you want to kill them in the end :)
Over 90 cultures, over 700 people representing them, over 2000 citizens, TVs, cameras, excitement. You just need to feel it by your own! So, apply for LCP next year and you will have a possibility to go to IC in Turkey.
And in the evening serious stuff started. Yep, agenda overview. AIESEC 2010 pioneers: about us and how ready we are to lead those changes we should make in order to achieve our vision. And A SESSION FROM PAI named Rocket without science. Imagine the whole planery, around 600 people, I can't even say how much square metres. And a one guy on the chair near the flip chart, and 2 HUGE screens with projectors connected with video camera to show what he is doing on that flip chart. And a voice of around 7 PAI starting from 1996-1997 via a phone. And those "Hey, AIESEC" from them and "What's up from the plenary". Yep, one in a life opportunity. So, in general the idea of that session was to show how did it come that now we have our AIESEC 2010 vision, what was the priorities of AIESEC back 10 years ago on global level. What was the reasons for AIESEC 2005 and how did it turned out it didn't work. You just feel yourself as a part of the history! And the future!!! The future created by you, those people around you, those people now reading their mails back home. And during this moment you can actually say that AIESEC does change your worldview!

 
Posted by Виталий Дрозд at 1:52 AM