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Future II in Fürstenfeld, April, 2nd to 5th

Last weekend Future II Conference took place in Fürstenfeld and for sure also LC Graz was quite well represented. Although it was hard to say with how many people – starting with about 15 on Thursday up to about 30 on Saturday plus minus some random party delegates…
Nevertheless LC Graz rocked the house! :) We broke the tradition from the last conferences with kind of feeling ashamed for our role call because this time we had a really cool one (“We are green, we are white, we are Styrian dynamite…!”). At parties we were present with outstanding costumes and won even one award!! And in general I dare to say that we were the delegation with the highest motivation from all. So conference feeling was really great.

Facis had put a lot of effort in preparation and so we could enjoy some interesting, challenging and also entertaining sessions. Joining the Leadership track I found out some new things concerning for example which leadership style I am, which tools I can use as team leader and so on. And we spent the whole day of Saturday to see what is going on now in AIESEC in Austria, which areas (definitely) need improvement, why they need it and how we can achieve this. In this context one of the most interesting and memorable sessions was “Questioning”. We got the question: “What stands between us and greatness?” and had to go on asking questions for a whole while until in the end we had about 400 of them. The special aspect of this task was to leave the pressure of finding an answer always and for everything but just to ask whatever comes into your mind and what is the absolute contrary of what we get taught in our society. In the end we all agreed that you learn more by looking at the question than by learning the answer.
About the other tracks I can’t say that much because unfortunately I could attend just one… but from Induction track I know for example that many of our delegates enjoyed the simulation sessions a lot and that Exchangers had some funny games and found that whatever happens you should ask Carlos! (For better explanation, please ask them! ;))

But what we all did together was PARTYING! On Thursday in Rocky Horror Picture Show style, on Friday in PJs or as traffic lights and on Saturday multicultural (Global Village) and “Futuramic”. And there really must be mentioned that Graz did a great job at the Boat Race, also the winner team (the Ps) included two of us! :) Congratulations Rainer and Stefan!
And then there were still many other things making this conference so enjoyable: A cool OC ;), perfect weather to even have breakfast outside, an inspiring chair, motivated delegates who contributed a lot, etc.

So all this bigger and smaller factors together created a comfortable atmosphere full of energy and motivation to develop and enable the development of others… Bla bla, I know. ;) But what I really want to say is that all people whom I talked to about the conference, told me that they liked it very much. Many of them even a lot more than expected. And I want to say that I am really happy that I was part of LC Graz delegation because I got so much out of this conference that I almost can’t believe it. And a big part of this was thanks to being with you, enjoying it together (and doing crazy stuff)!

In my opinion we soon should attend the next conference together! :)

On Saturday, 17th of January, 16 interested, engaged and motivated people participated in the workshop “We eat the world?!” organised by the CSR Team and held by Südwind (Renate Sova from Südwind Vienna to be exact ;-))
We spent a great day, getting to know new people, opinions, ideas and visions, talking about “Food” in all it’s numerous facets and sustainability in general. In addition, we were provided with some facts about the topic and the possibilities to get more actively engaged (in Südwind, for example, or in Rudi’s planned new NGO, and of course in Aiesec… ;-))
All the day was so fun and interesting everyone was surprised that 7 hours had passed so quickly…
And one thing is for sure: CSR Team will be back with other great stuff soon!!!

Communication Teambuilding

Yesterday, communication team had a really cool teambuilding. Starting at 14:00 we spent the whole day and also a big part of the night together.
Through various games and tasks, we got to know each other even better than before and created a strong team spirit among us.
After the official part of the teambuilding (thanx to Stefan Moll and Matthias Kahr), we went to Zeppelin and reflected about what a cool team we are and how much we love each other :D
Afterwards, we went back to office to watch "Hide and Seek", but unfortunately it didnt work, so we decided to watch "Mirrors". But as Luci and Sofie werent able to watch such cruel things (after 2 minutes :)), Markus introduced us to another "great and special" movie called "Dänische Delikatessen". Hmmm.... strange but interesting. The story is about butchery in Denmark and crazy people eating other crazy people. We really recommend it to everyone!!
The right Communication guy :)
Luci: "For leading a team of 4 different people, its really important to get to know all of them from different sites. Not only as a teammember and AIESECer, but also as a "normal" person. This day helped a lot to see that also when we all are different, we can learn from each other and behave as a one strong team. We built a spirit among us and I hope every other team will use this opportunity from TM-Team to have a teambuilding!"

Stefan: "On Saturday we had our first communication team building. I think it was well spenf time because it helped a lot to improve our team spirit. Through several games and tasts, we got to know each other better than before. Personally I really enjoyed thes team building, it was a great time and also a very interesting team experience."

Sofie: "Our Teambuliding was an enriching experience that gave us the chance to grow together as a team. Honestly, before I attended my first teambuilding, I was quite sure that such games are not very senseful and time could be used more effectively and in a more result-orientated way. But as I experienced the great amount of motivation and team spirit that comes out of it, it turned out to be time that was not wasted but very well invested. And in this respect, I recommend to every team to use that offering!"

Bernhard: "Teambuilding is a great opportunity to get to know my team members better. This is a great basis for working together more efficiently. And most important, it was a great afternoon thanks to Stefan and Matthias."

JQC Christmas Party

On Saturday, 20th of December, the last "offical event" in 2008 of AIESEC Graz took place: the christmas party of our learning partner JQC.

There, little Georg received an early christmas present: a JQC-award.

Georgie's pride and joy ;)

The holidays have already started, Christmas was all around and so we really had a lot of fun:

Some by preparing themselves for their future model's career...

Some by expressing their christmas feelings...

Or they used the time for philosophical thoughts...

And some others enjoyed intellectual challenges...

Of course, it was also great to see Anna Kubin again, who spent the last months in stone-cold Canada!

The night was long, very long. I left around half past three, but honestly I have no idea when our LCP went home... ;)

Probably, this is going to be the last entry of 2008, so the "Blog-Team" wishes everybody Merry Christmas and a happy, challenging and exciting New Year!

Communication X-Mas Meeting :)

Christmas are coming, so we - the communication team - thought, why not to make the last meeting in this year and celebrate Christmas together?
After one our "normal" meeting, we went to the city center and visited the Christkindlmarkt.
After drinking Beeren-Glühwein (mmmm..) and Orange-Glühwein, eating banana in chocolate and some sweet stuff, we wanted to go to the Big Wheel, but it was closed already :(

So we decided to go somewhere and watch some cool movie. The decision which movie, was reaaaaly difficult: 2 boys and 2 girls.... dirty dancing? titanic? pearl harbor? Greys Anatomy??- the ideas from girls :)


But we finally chose Madagaskar II and spent some really cool evening-night together!

We all wish you Merry Christmas!!

Stefan, Markus, Sofie and Luci :)

Singstar Party

On the 27th of November we had a Singstar Party in our Office. It was a lovely night. We drank capirinha and sang a lot of songs: We had several different CDs so the songs where ranging from the golden 80ies till the new german rock-pop songs. Everybody tried his best, but the absolute star of the event was Christina, who won two times. Most of time the girls sang better, but also the male AIESECers put their whole emotions into singing, wchich touched the souls, like, "Dieser Weg" (This way) fron Xavier Naidoo.

Champion!

Everybody had fun and after a few drinks it seemed like you could sing even better then before, although everybody smiled on you. We were singing the whole night. I liked this event very much because it brought AIESECers together. The "Oldies" stood equally together with the "Newies", so we were growing into a group. This is very important for me. Because personal connection is the thing, that makes AIESEC more personal than a usual company.


We were also splitted up into teams, so we learned something about teamwork. I think that this events are very usefull for our team experience and I would like to have more SingStar events.

Nenad Pantelic

NPS in Amara, Romania

Because we couldn’t attend the Future in Salzburg we decided to go to the National Preparation Seminar in Amara near Bucarest.
Sarah from LC Vienna joined us on our flight from Vienna to Bucarest, so the three of us where the austrian delagation representing our country at this conference in Romania.
The journey was quite exciting and kind of a survival training, from banessa airport in bucarest to the Amara where the conference was held we hat to take several different busses, one needed 3 hours for 100 kilometres so you can imagine how the streets look like in Romania. Thank god we met Alina from LC Bucarest in Bucarest downtown, she told us which busses, trains, subways etc. we had to take.
At around 3 in the afternoon we arrived at the ‚charming’ Lebada ‚hotel’ in Amara. It looks like a huge communistic ‚Plattenbau’ in the middle of nowhere. No real streets, no shops, no houses, nuthing but the hotel.
Just look at the pictures.
After we dropped our luggage in our room we crashed the main plenary room where all the newies and the chair of the conference, Bene from LC Vienna, just held a workshop. We where splitted into different homegroups and were from the beginning part of different teams mainly consisted of romanians.


After some minutes we were asked on stage for being introduced to all the newies and facies. The crowd (about 500 Romanians) claimed an austrian roll call so we performed together with Bene a ‚Jodel-roll-call’ we didn’t even know...
A really nice experience was the open-minded collegues from AIESEC Romania who welcomed us really warmly and were kind and helpful at any time. We made a lot of friends there, if everybody keeps his promises, we will have hundreds of visits during the next weeks, let’s see. We got to know interesting facts and insider information about Romanians and there culture.
During the day we hat plenaries, workshops, meetings with our home groups where we discussed and reflected the daily issues and last but not least insane parties at night!
Thursday we learned about the AIESEC culture for a better understanding of the organization. The Facies of our home-groups were our contact persons and at every time friendly and available. On friday lectures about leadership were held. Saturday was sustainability-day. In our opinion the most interesting day, representatives of international prestigious enterprises such as Microsoft or the Royal Banc of Scotland, ING, or Junior Achievement gave talks and workshops to the newies.
On Saturday night there was a big awards gala, the different LC’s of Romania were honoured and got prices for special achievements. Everybody had to dress up. Afterward there was a huge party again where we met some AIESEC Alumni from Austria who are on exchange in Romania now.
During the whole conference we were amazed of the passion of the AIESEC-people and defintely proud to be a part of it, even though it was really much and sometimes surprising for us in the beginning.

The parties didn’t start before 1 o’clock in the morning and lasted til the sun rised at the nearby lake.
Our personal highlight regarding the parties was our stand at the global village party where we had to present Austria. We put on our ‚Lederhosen’ and Sarah from Vienna wore a ‚Dirndl’. We carried Schnaps, Stroh 80, Speck, Bread, Schmalz, Kernöl, Mannerschnitten, Mozartkugeln and many austrian flags to decorate our little area. After some minutes all the stuff was gone, maybe because the meals were usually not that enjoyable at the hotel, they even tried to eat our bacon rind and drank the oil purely.


After that we partied all together really hard and everybody was pretty wasted because the Romanians brought their traditional Schnaps Pelinka.
Another highlight are the unique Romanian roll-calls that sound much better than the austrian ones. Make your own picture:
Summarizing we can say that our first conference, an international conference, was a great experience for us because we got to know much about basic structures of AIESEC and of Romania as a culture and ist people. An international conference has many advantages and we would recommend it to eyerbody who is interested in international contacts, making friends and and an adventurous jouney!

Phillip Fröhlich and Elias Resinger

Faci Experience in Slovakia

Equipped with a printed google map I jumped into the car and drove to Bratislava the meeting point for all members of the conference teams. My target was the MC flat somewhere in Bratislava. I arrived there at 0.00 in the night. The first time in this city and confusing road signs made me feel lost. No one on the street to ask where I am in Bratislava. Finally I found a police car. Because we had difficulties in understanding each other the police man said in broken English: "Follow me" I followed the police car back on the highway there I took the right exit and some minutes later I arrived at the MC flat.

Next day we were driving to the conference side, which was some where in the woods in Slovakia far far away from the civilisation. One day for all the facis to get two know each other, get into the conference spirit and shape our conference team culture. Our faci team consists of AIESECers from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Roumania, Latvia, Poland and a chair from New Zealand which lives in Netherlands. The best preconditions to have an exciting and challenging conference experience.


Our goal in the Leadership Track was: Let the delegates find out their personal passion and bring it into reality with relevant actions. The delegates were grouped in home groups. This means you are together with 6-8 ppl in one group the whole conference. This leads to strong group dynamic effects which makes your role as faci even more interesting and intensive.


Highlights of the conference

First Day: Opening followed by challenging team building exercise for the groups. Halloween Party.


Second Day: Company work shop from Henkel about Innovation and delegates start to discover them self and find their passion in life. 60th Anniversary celebration of AIESEC International.

Third Day: Get to know your 24 individual and professional strength. Alumni talks about be an entrepreneurial. Alumni were sharing about their pitfalls, their ways of using their potential for creating a life of joy and successful working career. Hot Peperoni Competition Extreme. (Record 25 Peperoni!!!) Global Village with completele new and funnny ways to discover other cultures.



Fourth Day: Every delegate find out the answer for them self to the question: How can I bring my passion into action by living my own style.

Summa sumarum. It was entirely worth to go on a national conference abroad. You meet and more important work with people from different cultures and afterwards you are friends. That's the best what you can do with your time. Go for an AIESEC conference abroad.


I am looking forward to read your bring backs from your conferences.

Matthias Kahr

Future I in Salzburg

As I am a newie I was very excited about my first Future-Conference. So when I arrived in Salzburg I didn’t know what to expect and what’s going to happen during the next three days. I just heard that it’s going to be a “new experience” and of course, it really was a completely new experience for me. Especially, the first day was kind of weird and funny: When the newies entered the room for the first time the other AIESECers began to dance and it looked a little bit like we landed in a sect or in a vacation club. But this feeling changed after minutes when other newies tried to join the dance and I recognised that this was the famous AIESEC-Culture I had heard of before. So after every LC presented their selves by doing a role-call we were split up into groups and the workshops began.
During this three days we had a lot of different workshops, some of them were pretty interesting but some of I didn’t like that much.
At the end of each day there was also a party, which differed from the parties that I have been to so far. The special thing was that every party had a certain topic and you were supposed to dress according to the theme, which was really fun...

All in all I can say that the Future Conference was really cool and a great experience. I learned a lot (teamwork, more things about AIESEC), there was a lot of fun (parties, AIESEC-Culture), I got to know a lot of interesting and cool people, but it was also very exhausting. Personally, I also feel more connected to AIESEC than before and I recommend to everybody, who hasn’t been to an AIESEC-Conference yet, to go, because you will really get a great benefit from it (at least you will learn, that you don’t need much sleep. ;)

Stefan Janisch

Local Induction

Local Induction - the best way for a Newie to get into the organization.

Two LIs are already over and one more will take place next week. So it's time to strike an iterim balance: We got really cool Newies so far!

And of course we're already looking forward to the last (but definitely not least) LI to welcome the remaining Newies to LC Graz.

Stammtisch with our lovely newies!

Propeller 20:00

On wednesday we had our Stammtisch again.

The special thing was, that we were really mixed up, that means it was not an ordinary Stammtisch.
We had MC in the house :) (thanx zsofie and vlad) and also our newies!
I personally enjoyed this evening and already looking forward to the next one.

See u all next week!

AIESEC-Stammtisch

Following the request of many members, yesterday our first so-called "Stammtisch" took palce in the nice atmosphere of by students well known "Propeller". While not talking too much about AIESEC, members were able to see each other aigain after summer holidays, share thoughts, experiences and feelings or just have fun.
From now on, wednesday is going to be the night to meet other AIESECers in a casual and relaxed way. So if YOU want to join our next "meeting", feel free to come to "Propeller" next wednesday, 8pm and spend a nice evening among your AIESEC-friends.