Greetings from Turkey
Hi there,
Today was the 2nd day of the actual conference (IC = International Congress) here in Yiditepe university in Istanbul Turkey. The first three days were pre-meeting of a WENA (Western-Europe-North-America) Growth Network. Basically that means that we had some sessions about relevant things in WENA GN with the people from there. On Monday the whole thing then started with the opening plenary, global village and opening ceremony. All of them were quite cool. When there are 600 people from 100 countries together crazy full of energy makes anything really cool!
IC is actually something quite strange. It's really like a big, big bubble, where one is captured inside. Currently I have basically no idea what day it is and what is happening outside the conference site. Moreover I already feel like home here at the university. I am just living on the flow: not caring what's happening tomorrow or even after four hours. It's kind of cool feeling. But IC is not just a bubble but much more. When thinking about it, it's kind of funny how used to diversity I am already: there are people from over 100 countries here and it's kind of normal for me. Having dinner with people from 10 different countries or having discussions of the culture in some African country or the current political reality in some Asian country is starting to be completely normal thing for me. When thinking about that for a while, I don't think that there are actually so many people in this World who have similar possibilities to experience internationalism in such a level.
At times I have been thinking of my work at AIESEC. Well, to be honest there are so many opportunities in the World and AIESEC is not the only one. So sometimes I have been wondering if it's really the best thing for me. Sometimes I have doubts. But when experiencing something like IC, I remember again why I am spending a year of my life for this organization. AIESEC does really make sense. Talking with people here from different countries reminds me why AIESEC exists. Hearing those personal growth experiences - like the one I am going/have went through - clarifies for me again the reasons why I am working for AIESEC. I am getting so much of inspiration here in Turkey. Next to getting inspiration, I am also getting many ideas, many ideas to what I could do or would like to do in my life. This is obviously good, but at the same also bad. Daah, continuing my studies in Tampere seems now more and more boring option. It feels like an option that will not push me any further in my life.
A picture before the the Global Village of my team in Finnish national costume.
The conference will still continue 7 days... Let's see what it brings for me:)
Sunny greets from Turkey,
Jouni
P.S. This weather here is not made for Finns: plus 30 degrees in the shade makes a Finn to melt:P
Today was the 2nd day of the actual conference (IC = International Congress) here in Yiditepe university in Istanbul Turkey. The first three days were pre-meeting of a WENA (Western-Europe-North-America) Growth Network. Basically that means that we had some sessions about relevant things in WENA GN with the people from there. On Monday the whole thing then started with the opening plenary, global village and opening ceremony. All of them were quite cool. When there are 600 people from 100 countries together crazy full of energy makes anything really cool!
IC is actually something quite strange. It's really like a big, big bubble, where one is captured inside. Currently I have basically no idea what day it is and what is happening outside the conference site. Moreover I already feel like home here at the university. I am just living on the flow: not caring what's happening tomorrow or even after four hours. It's kind of cool feeling. But IC is not just a bubble but much more. When thinking about it, it's kind of funny how used to diversity I am already: there are people from over 100 countries here and it's kind of normal for me. Having dinner with people from 10 different countries or having discussions of the culture in some African country or the current political reality in some Asian country is starting to be completely normal thing for me. When thinking about that for a while, I don't think that there are actually so many people in this World who have similar possibilities to experience internationalism in such a level.
At times I have been thinking of my work at AIESEC. Well, to be honest there are so many opportunities in the World and AIESEC is not the only one. So sometimes I have been wondering if it's really the best thing for me. Sometimes I have doubts. But when experiencing something like IC, I remember again why I am spending a year of my life for this organization. AIESEC does really make sense. Talking with people here from different countries reminds me why AIESEC exists. Hearing those personal growth experiences - like the one I am going/have went through - clarifies for me again the reasons why I am working for AIESEC. I am getting so much of inspiration here in Turkey. Next to getting inspiration, I am also getting many ideas, many ideas to what I could do or would like to do in my life. This is obviously good, but at the same also bad. Daah, continuing my studies in Tampere seems now more and more boring option. It feels like an option that will not push me any further in my life.
A picture before the the Global Village of my team in Finnish national costume.
The conference will still continue 7 days... Let's see what it brings for me:)
Sunny greets from Turkey,
Jouni
P.S. This weather here is not made for Finns: plus 30 degrees in the shade makes a Finn to melt:P
Labels: aiesec, international congress, turkey
posted by Jouni at 8:33 PM
1 Comments:
Well, I can see you had a nice time there in Turkey. Keep on writing, it's nice to read it.
Greets from Birmingham
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