AIESEC Conference is when... / AIESEC Конференция это, когда...

1. Говоря: «Я еду на AIESEC конференцию», у говорящего наблюдается странный огонек радости и загадочности в глазах
2. IntroTA: ты с умилением слушаешь о подвигах бывалых айсекеров, со всеми знакомишься, TR/LR: ты встречаешь друзей с других локалок и рассказываешь о бывалых айсекерах; LR/H4TF/Alumni: Тебя узнают, а ты уже почти никого не знаешь, о тебе рассказывают истории.
3. Едя на конференцию, ты точно знаешь, что обязательно с собой нужно взять туалетную бумагу, «мивину», бутылку водки и запасную зарядку для телефона.
4. Такое замечательное явление, как «Госсипс бокс», где помимо записок можно найти кучу мобилок, ручек, пару кофт, шарфиков, лифчик, и еще вещь, с которой нужно еще понять что делать и вообще что это такое?! И индивидуальные анонимные записки, несущие в себе дух каждой конференции.
5. Фасилитаторов можно отличить по синякам под глазами и вечно что-то ищущему взгляду.
6. Для опоздавших, Чера можно всегда узнать по обилию людей, постоянно его окружающих.
7. Раз пятьсот в день ОС приходиться отвечать на вечный вопрос: «Когда будет обед?»
8. По-любасу, на любой конфе всегда есть гитара.
9. Всегда какая-то кровать или стол поломаются
10. Комнаты между делегатами распределяют только для структурирования, все-равно все ночуют где-попало
11. За три часа для сессии тебе удается уже в пятый раз передалать ее и найти для нее фасилитаторов.
12. Не узнаешь или не хочешь признавать себя на фографиях
13. Под конец конференции у тебя пропадает голос
14. Комната, куда труднее всего попасть и где, тем ни менее всегда множество людей, - это ОС рум
15. Ты видишь знакомых тебе людей совершенно в другом свете
16. Возвращаясь домой, ты убитый, но, сука, довольный!
17. В тебе проявляются скрытые способности к ER- ру, даже если до этого ты никогда не рейзил; и срейзив очередной кипятильник у соседней локалки, тебя так и распирает от гордости за себя.
18. Есть приходиться что-попало, чем-попало и кабачковую икру.
19. И хотя, ты уже пятый день спишь по два часа в сутки, все равно не хочется уезжать
20. В дверь все время стучат,
21. Ты никак не можешь попасть в свою комнату
22. В конце конференции только самые экономные подсчитывают оставшиеся копейки, у остальных их просто нет!
23. Это время, когда поговорка “Work hard, play hard” полностью оправдывает весь вложенный в нее смысл.
24. Это когда твой ЛСП заглядывает к тебе в душ, только для того чтобы вытащить тебя на сессию.
25. И, наконец, это время, когда ты переступаешь через все свои барьеры и границы…J

1. When person says : “ I am going to the conference” you can see in his/her eyes some flash of mysteries and happiness
2. Intro TA: You listen stories about old AIESECers and meet new people; TR/LR: you meet friends from other cities and countries and tell stories about old AIESECers; LR/H4TF/Alumni: Everybody knows you, but all faces are new for you and you are the one about whom people tell stories
3. Going to the conference you know for sure that you need to take with you following things: toilette paper, some fast food, vodka and one more charger for your cell phone
4. The wonderful thing as “Gossips box”, when except gossips you can find a lot of cell phones, pens, coats, bra and some thing you don’t know what is it. And individual special gossips, which hold a special spirit of each conference.
5. You can recognize facilitators by the bags under their eyes and they are always searching for something
6. People who came late can recognize Chair by a lot of people around him/her always!
7. About 500 times per day OC suppose to answer on the following question: “When is the dinner?”
8. In any case, there will be guitar
9. Always some bed or table is broken
10. The rooms between the delegates are separates only for structurizing, in any case everybody sleeps somewhere else
11. In three hours before your session you might successfully rebuild it again and find the facilitators for it for the fives time already!
12. You do not recognize or don’t want to recognize yourself on the pictures.
13. By the end of the conference you loose your voice
14. The most difficult room to enter and still there are a lot of people is OC room
15. Going back home you are dieing, but happy
16. You can find in yourself amazing ER skills, even if you have never raised before. And after each raised heater from neighboring LC room you are proud of yourself!!!
17. You eat  kabachkovaya caviar.
18. Even if it is the fives day you sleep 2 hours per 24 hours you still don't want to leave.
19. Always somebody knocks at your door
20. You can never get insight your room
21. By the end of the conference only the most thrifty people count their coin’s, others just don’t have any money at all!
22. At this time the phrase “Work hard, play hard” is absolutely right!!!
23. It is the time when your LCP gets insight when you take a shower just to tell you that you are late on the next session..

And, at last, this is the time when you make personal revolutionor your self!...:-)

CEEDership, August'07, Turkey, Bursa

Lines from my Dairy

Sorry for starting from the very beginning, but this is the only way to show my trip in all colors it has. So I decided to give something from dairy here. For my opinion it is the best, because I am giving lines from the time I was still there. · I can’t believe but my trip has started. CEEDership in Bursa, Turkey. Happiness, joy in my heart ... but difficult to imagine all this… Now I am at the night train to Odessa. I will arrive tomorrow early in the morning and I will spend all day long in Odessa, seeing sight things. Then in the evening it will be embarkation. And two days long on the steamboat. I hope it will pass quickly. · These lines I am writing already being in my cabin on the steamboat “Caledonia”. It is quite good room with window, small nice table, and four beds. I am happy with my cabin. I can say even more, I expected worse cabin than it is now. There are three people living with me in my cabin: grandmother from Romania and young couple from Slovenia and UK Ajda and Ian. They are traveling all around Europe. They have a goal: to see every country of Europe (now I can say they did it, they have seen all 43 European countries). I am very thankful to them for making my trip on this steamboat enjoyable and unforgettable. To be honest I thought that this journey would be very boring and pass very slowly, but I was mistaking. These two days have already passed and I even didn’t see it. Tomorrow I will be already in Istanbul. It is 4th day I am staying in Istanbul. I have a lot of impressions! Like the way one movie person said: “Istanbul is the city of the contrasts.” And this is a true. It is! On the one street you can see hundreds of completely different things and completely different people. There is a lot of foreigners, especially in the downtown. Here you can buy souvenirs from every part of the world you would like to. As you know Istanbul was the capital of the Otam Empire. Now it is the biggest city of Turkey. It’s population is 15 millions people. The main street is Istiklar. There are 1 million people in this street. The center region is Taxim. Istanbul consists of two parts: European and Anatolia. Istanbul is the only one city in the world one part of which is situated in Europe and another one in Asia. The most interesting places for tourists here are Top Kapi palace, Galata tower, Sophie church, Sultan Ahmed Mosque and so on. About cultural shocks, I had a lot of them! Because everything is completely different than in Ukraine. For example dress. Sorry, but if you want to dress mini skirt, don’t do this! It can sound funny but Turkish guy following you all around the city just because he likes you it is really normal, especially for foreigners. It happens almost with everyone. Other thing makes me wonder is that Istanbul is very clean city against to find a dustbin here is impossible! Night before the last one was great! In the evening I have met my friends from the steamboat. This is one of the ways I see cultural understanding. All of us were from completely different countries: Ukraine, UK, Canada, Slovenia, France, New Zealand, Turkey…but to understand each other clearly, not just in the way to speak but in the way to think and spend a great time together was very easy and it was big pleasure for usJ. “It is no matter to which culture you belong, it is matter to be a good person.”J (From muslim center in Odessa) This evening I will be in Bursa already. See you there. · It is one week passed since I came to Bursa. (I will tell you more in detail about this city later). I can say it is very nice and beautiful city. There are mountains all around Bursa. So for me it was like paradise because I love mountains! AIESECers are great! I love these guys! (Still miss themL). Hospitable, friendly, responsible and merry. Everything they do they do with very big responsibility. My home family is honey. I’m living with 7 people. · The day before yesterday I was in the mountains. There were four of us: Olga and Masha from Russia, Frank from China and me. Ah! My dream... Mountains…! Unfortunately the battery of my camera needed to be charged, so I didn’t bring it. All I could do was just to ask for some pictures from Frank’s computer to my mp3 player. That’s why in my player appear a lot of viruses. But photos were great. We were walking 8 km up to the top. We were very tired, but the view we saw deserved it! · This is my last days in Turkey. I can’t believe! It’s like I’ve just came yesterday, and I’m already leaving…L. We became good friends with all of these people: aiesecsers, trainers, CEEDers. It seems that Turkey became my second home… …Last time I realized my mistake and began to spend all my free time not in MSN but with real people. Last night we were in the one mountain. Trainers, CEEDers, facis of YOU CAN…nice company! Even there was no police to say:”You can’t drink beer here!” J . After this I was driving motorbike around night Bursa…I will miss this evenings very much!!! Today I am leaving to Ukraine. I couldn’t believe when I came to Turkey now I can’t believe that I’m leaving! AIESEC, AIESEC…What would I do without you?! Maybe I would sit at home now preparing for exams and terribly missing something neither spending next two days sitting near my luggage because there is no free cabins, only sit-places ( no matter that I was reserving a room!). Maybe I would drink now some tea or water against beer because beer is the only one thing you can buy here, in the port. No water, only beer, vodka, raki and any kind of alcohol you would like. Maybe if not AIESEC I would dressed now in some sexy coat against T-short with AIESEC logo, S-size, not XL at last, S (!!!!!!!!!) I was dreaming about so long! I wouldn’t have now this international XP. I wouldn’t meet such interesting people. I wouldn’t know about so many things! I wouldn’t have AIESEC to live it! My life would be very boring and colorless without AIESEC!

You Can Global Village It’s happened that I had good opportunity to be present at the opening ceremony of the biggest international conference of the year 2007 YOU CAN congress’07. I have seen only the first Global Village, but

I’m still impressed. Unbelievable! But it’s possible! To see the all world insight one big roomJ. Again the organization of this Global Village appears to be almost perfect. Sorry for poorness of this part of my report but to describe all these using only worlds it is impossible! You have to see it, to be there. So m

any countries. Delegations from all over the world, in nation dress, with national food, songs… Amazing! If you have read “Master and Margaret”, by M. Bulgakov, chapter 23, then you will understand me perfectly! It was like that. Aiesecers who is not so long in AIESEC were happy to meet new faces, aiesecers who are longer in AIESEC were happy to see old friends thereJ. Everybody could see already known face there. And it wasn’t enough a few hours of this Global Village to speak with everybody and to see everything you were going to.

Personal reflecton A few years ago I was thinking that it is impossible to make traveling like this; I was thinking that there is no organization in the world which can help me to make it and to develop myself, to lead myself and for sure I didn’t know about AIESEC; I thought it is impossible to have good friends all around the world and to have other lovely family in other country. Now I know I was wrong. Everything is possible. “Everything is difficult before it is easy” (Italian proverb) All you need to do is to make a first

step. “The journey of thousand miles begins with a single step” (Sun Tzu) J I’m happy that I did this traveling. I came there to give but I’ve left that place being given. I wanted to show something, but it’s something was showed to me. The matter is when you are coming to another country you are thinking about anything except your feeling to the people you will meet there, you are not thinking how much you will miss them, how it would be difficult to adapt to people, traditions, structure in your hometown when you will come back, you are not thinking that to say “good bye” to your friends even new ones is always difficult. And when that moment, moment of you leaving comes you can’t believe and you are thinking about what you are going to do next but in general when you are coming back all you can do is just miss terribly and trying to adopt to the space around you, because now it’s so different and in the same time so common, like you used to before you’d left, but now you’ve come back and you are not anymore exactly that person you used to be before your traveling, you have changed.

I want to say "thank you" to... ...Ibo, VP Marketing’06-07 for personal trainings about marketing. Thanks him now I know much more about this set than before... Although for being a good company and home family during my staying in Bursa. Ibo is the kindest person I have ever known... ...Cagri Sahin, VP F’06-07 for helping me with my Spanish. Hombre, Charley! And also for being my home family... ...Ufuk Turan, VP F’07-08 for understanding me in difficult moments...Thank you, Ufuk. Now both of us have two home LCs: Dnipropetrovsk and BursaJ... ...Berk Kaya, for meeting me in Istanbul and making the best for feeling myself comfortable... ...Onur Semizer, LCP’07-08. For being so open to others and just because he is good person. Not always you have chance to spend night in president’s apartmentJ... ...Baran Sirekin, for keeping me always in good humor; he knows one secret... (Bioncey, Bioncey... J ?)... ...Serhat Sen just thanks to him this difficult system, which calls “Insight” now became much easier for me... ...Meriu, Masha Polosukhina, Olga Popova and one more Masha Nabatnikova, for being my good friends. Thanks them I didn’t forget my Russian at allJ... ...Veronica Koncikova and Najiba Jemaї. Wow! They even didn’t realize it but they taught me a lot of things... ...Ian Bearder and Ajda Cakardic for being the best company I have ever met especially on that boring steamboat... ...Piotr Gluszczuk and Emir Aymen Afes, the best facis of the conference I have ever met Thank you for spending together really great time in my last evenings in Turkey...I love you, guys! J... ...Jacopo Ormesi. The person with whom I was communicating the most of my time. Thank you for being my good friend. I don’t know what I would do without you in the rare moments of boring J ... ...Ilkay Yilmaz, the person who find always the most difficult way to manage the most easier thingsJ. Very big “thank you” because nobody was helping me so much as you were...