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