The whole story started last year in May when I joined AIESEC, the biggest student-run organization in the world back in the Netherlands. Check our supermovie explaining what AIESEC is about:
There’s another one which explains in depth what is cool about AIESEC, it’s made at second conference I attended, the Scandinavian Leadership Development Seminar in Finland.
After a year, I didn’t feel like leaving the organization so I looked into opportunities I had and one of them was going on a CEED to Canada. CEED means that I would be a member of a local committee (always abbreviated as LC) and work there. In my special case I am helping the local committee of AIESEC in Guelph with recruitment. Since they don’t have a lot of members and doing a good recruitment is a lot of work, they had me come over and do that. I am closely working together with my dear roommate Brett, who should normally do that with his non-existent team. I am also the Vice President of Outgoing Exchange right now until I have recruited myself a successor, since there is nobody in the LC knowing about OGX at the moment. So, last weekend I was at the National Outgoing Exchange Congress.
In that congress I got to learn how AIESEC in Canada works, which is not entirely the same as AIESEC in the Netherlands. The Member Committee (MC, the national board) in Canada gives advice and suggestions on how to do things, whereas in AIESEC in the Netherlands there are procedures for most things and the LCs are just supposed to follow them. The Dutch approach obviously works better, but the Canadian one probably sometimes evokes less frustration on local level. I also got very very motivated to work for AIESEC in Guelph , I met really cool people and...I partied. With dancing on a table and everything. Sooo much fun.
After the conference we went back to Quebec City, where we stayed with some of the delegates, explored the city, did some shopping and today we went to visit some waterfalls close to Quebec. I forgot what they're called, but they're actually taller than the Niagara Falls. Apart from Nikolai (who I am very happy to see again), Laila (the UBC VP OGX) and me, everybody has already left Quebec. Ooooh and I am forgetting about Matthias, the VP OGX of AIESEC in Münster, the twin LC of my Dutch LC and of course my hometown in Germany. He is also on a CEED, here in Quebec. It was very funny to meet him, since I was faciing in their Newiescongress in May. He will stay here and we will go to Montreal tomorrow.
Concerning my work here for AIESEC, it's finally getting serious. This morning I randomly found out that there is an information fair at the university for all kinds of student organizations. So there is a lot of things that have to be prepared and the fact that I am in the nice province of Quebec does not really help, but since we have Internet in our hotel room and I still wake up early every day I get a lot of stuff done and it will be alright.
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