First AIESEC LC Meeting

Since I've arrived here and I've been wanting to attend an AIESEC LC meeting. Back in my LC back home we used to call trainees to invite them to LC meetings. Here it works quite opposite. You are the one who has to go and ask to attend the meetings. That's exactly what happened. A Greek trainee wanted to attend an LC meeting as well, as he was already in aiesec before, so when he knew where and when it was he gave me a call and we went together with another trainee from Poland.

I was very very lucky today as there were a lot of other trainees in the LC meeting. Something that doesn't usually happen according to what they mentioned in the meeting. We were like more than 10 trainees!! So it was a great opportunity to meet them all today. Most of them just arrived a couple of days ago on a DT internship.

I must say that the LC meeting was a little bit too hyper for my taste :D They were all having fun big time, yet in my opinion it was a little bit too much at times. For those from AAST Cairo LC that are reading this,,, I taught them "2o2mor ya gameel!!" :D. I was asked to come and present myself and they wanted me to do a roll call. Of course I wasn't really prepared with anything so I taught our famous "Hey AIESEC!!" response :D It was soooo nice :D I'll make sure they say it every time I'm there :P

It doesn't stop there!! I met this trainee from Malta, her name is Viola. She turns out that she knows many aiesec people from Egypt. She remembered Sherif Elshayeb, Abdo, Samy, Shahira. She also knew some arabic. When I got to know what she knows in Arabic I wasn't surprised as she knows Shayeb :D

For those who know Geet a.k.a Githanjali, I met her sister today, Mana. She's an aiesec member in the DT team. Yes, they have a specific team for DTs. That's how it is in all India I guess. It was great meeting her finally. Also Geet will be coming back on the 15th of August. It would be great to have her in one city again :D

It was a great day!! Looking forward for going to more LC meetings and see if there's any means of interaction.

I used a couple abbreviations in this post so here is what they stand for:

• LC: Local Committee (A local division of AIESEC in a country)
• DT: Development Traineeship (Traineeships where you get to work on development and community based issues. Mainly working in NGOs)
  

Mee3o over and out