The semester is now coming to an end and it’s only appropriate that we revive our blog. Your MCP elect hereby promises that this website will be active during the rest of this term!
It’s safe to say that we have had a pretty great semester.
The AIESEC term started with two little timid girls going on their first international conference which was ScaLDS in Sweden. International conferences can be quite scary… especially when a finnish delegation is involved!
But the two little girls survived the conference, the Finns, the surprise speech they had to deliver for 150 people and all the alcohol! They even considered going to another international conference!
Next thing on the agenda was recruitment!
It seemed a bit scary at first. Only 3 leaders and 1 member! But a little goes a long way… we got some unexpected help and over 100 people signed up as being interested in AIESEC activities, and we got over 60 applications from people that either wanted to be a part of AIESEC or the Career Days team. We did this by baking waffles for hungry students and putting up posters in the bathrooms so that people could multitask by doing their thing while reading stories about AIESECers. Talk about brand affiliation!
We also did some unusual class presentations and last but not least, we held a science trip for the students in business administration, engineering and economics! We received more than 150 students that were introduced to AIESEC while the beer was flowing everywhere (literally!).
Around 30 people made it through the trial period and 26 members are still standing… congrats to the recruitment team and to our remaining members on that!
A part of our induction to AIESEC was our national conference Think Big. The conference was held at Hótel Hvítá and lasted from Friday to Sunday. It is safe to say that we had fun… the Icelandic secret induction ritual was introduced to our new members and they seemed very pleased with it!
We also had sessions on the AIESEC way, the AIESEC eXPerience and all that… we really did! I promise!
Next thing to do was to start working and our alumni event group started working really hard! We decided to have our alumni event on the 1st of November, which was the same day as our
next conference, IceLDS.
The weekend turned out to be a success, but we had two externals from JCI delivering sessions, Helgi who did a session on leadership in organizations, and Tómas who delivered a
session on networking which was very useful for the next thing on the agenda… our most successful alumni event since 2001!
40 people showed up at our alumni event which was held in Þróttarheimilið in Laugardalur. We got to hear some speeches from alumnis and current members and one alumni was rewarded for his great help to AIESEC throughout the years, that was Ólafur Jónsson. He has given us coffee, food and waffle powder for recruitment and conferences and we are extremely grateful for that. Thumbs up for Bjarki the Team Leader, Gabriel, Rannveig and Laura for arranging this event… it was a huge success and resulted in Gabriel being nominated the member of the month!
Gabriel definitely wasn’t the only one stepping up as three people applied for LCEB positions which resulted in Bjarki being elected the LCP of LC RU, and Laurent being elected LCVP ICX in LC UI. Nothing makes Freyja’s little LCP heart prouder than this… congratulations to both of you!
You think that’s it? It’s not. Because we reeeeeally like elections, we elected two more people into office. Our MCP, Tómas, was offered a job as Assistant Manager in Perth, Australia so he will be resigning in the end of this year. That meant that we needed a new MCP, so Freyja was elected MCP until June 2009.
Whereas Freyja is becoming MCP, we needed a new LCP! And our beloved Bryan was extremely excited about that, he applied and was elected with 100% confidence. Bryan, congratulations, we know you’re going to take us to another level with your brilliant ideas!
Freyja has quit her job at Nova to become a dedicated MCP, and she is absolutely positive that she couldn’t ask for a better team for next term!
Heiðrún, Ægir and Freyja met up recently to reply to some really mean questions from the editor of the university paper of HÍ! Don’t miss it… the interview will be in the December issue!
Last but not least, we had Killer Days and the winners were…. Laurent and Íris! They were rewarded with a bottle of white wine each… which they will receive at the Christmas party.
So… what have we achieved this term?- 26 new members
- 23 members that are staying with us next term
- 3 new LC Executive Board members
- A successful alumni event
- Raised huge awareness of AIESEC activities
- Gotten lots of students interested in going on exchange
Lets make good use of this success by recruiting more members, more Exchange
Participants and by doing more exchanges and projects next semester!
What's ahead?Recruitment is coming up in January, and that means… ANOTHER CONFERENCE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE… woohoo! Recruitment will be from 19th till the 28th of January and the conference will be on the weekend 30th of January - 1st of February. Make sure to tell all your
friends that are interested in AIESEC in Iceland about it!
We are receiving a CEEDer…. so far we have interested people from China,
Brazil, Nigeria and Portugal so it should be a success!
We have also challenged the LC of University Aalborg to an exchange competition… the one who realizes the most exchanges wins! They claim they’re going to kick some Icelandic butt but I really don’t think they will… we’re already two exchanges ahead!
(From the right: me, Elias, Espen and Robert)
