My saturday

I've slept a lot today, despite the fact that I have TONS to study, or more precisely a thesis I've hardly started on yet and the deadline is just getting closer...

So yes I've been sleeping, I am a bad person. To prevent even more sleepiness I've been AIESEC-dancing! Youtube has helped me with the moves when I didn't remember, but I must say I am quite good by now. I will have and AIESEC dance-session for my LC, I know people that could need some training... IF they want of course.


I haven't been AIESECing so much today, which has been good beacuse that was my plan. I spoke with a member asking about the OC, but that is the most practical AIESECing I've done... But I have been thinking, of course. A lot about one discussion that has been going on a lot on APW and since we came home. The way of how we show and communicate AIESEC.

The dances, for example. In Sweden I don't know any LC that dance during local activities. I know SU/KTH did once some years back. And I've been thinking if we do wrong in hiding such a basic part of our culture, the AIESEC culture? The dances come to you like a shock at your first conference, and the first day you just "what the heck....!!" but then you come to love them. I did. Must mornings when I've been tired at the conferences the dances are the only thing that gives me my energy back after a hard night's partying, and during APW I was wondering to myself "Why don't people do this everywhere?". Imagine, before the lectures at the uni or in the parlament when they open their plenary... :D Well lucky for us they don't, then it wouldn't be so unique for us! (I know KTH have something similar but that doesn't count). But I still think we are a bit too afraid, we are hiding one part of ourselves that might attract the right people to us. Yes, the dances are not very... professional, but they show our life-loving culture and our playful attitude towards work and that we are young and restless and believe in combining hard work with hard play... We leave no first-timer at a conference with the doubt that we do both, and really good. No newie thinks less of us after seen us dancing at a conference. Why would it be so much different at LC-level? We can still be professional AND playful, we can be serious AND dance Tunak Tunak. Maybe it is time that we show both parts already at the LC-meetings? I don't know but I want a discussion.

There are other things we need to change I thing, try new methods and see what works. Recruitment this autumn, we want MANY good members but how do we attract them? Maybe by dancing more, maybe.. ;-) We also need to work on how we show AIESEC to others. Stop the "fuzzy" words, for example, and be more concrete. It is obvious that we need to work out some strategy, and people, specially my leadership team is eager to make things better. We just have to sit down and do the thinking, and structure it up. There are so many ideas, all worth to be tried on. How to best facilitate such a discusion, I haven't figured out yet... I spread the "Recruit a friend"- idea on wednesday, I got good response. Something to develop.

Many things have been in one way just because they have "always been like that". If we don't want to change them at least we need to have the discussion about why.

So, my first LCP-week is ended, I survived, my team is still whole and I think they still like me :D . I just feel I don't have the time I need for all I need/want to do within my post. So many ideas, so little time! And my thesis, I REALLY need to get it finished this semester!

And one2one-talks, feels I wont have time for them all the weeks that are left! :S And that is a part I REALLY care about! ut well, which part isn't? It is hard to choose among equally important tasks. It is impossible!

*deep breath*

Back to my thesis. I'll stop thinking about AIESEC for abit, if that is possible. I'll just do some AIESEC dancing first. All alone.