Imagine a nice weekend in the end of August: beautiful blue sky, extremely hot weather, sunny days – lazy days… I guess that you can imagine yourself having fun on the beach in Spain, enjoying Italian sun, hiking in Austrian mountains or hitch-hiking with Dutchies around Europe. But now, try to imagine a bunch of crazy AEGEE people, gathered in the high school gym in the middle of nowhere in the suburbs of Poznan who are spending their weekend locked inside the hot rooms with heavy air and brainstorming, discussing, thinking, planning and acting… YES, I´m talking about the Planning Meeting of AEGEE 2011. Important meeting where we are right now finalising Strategic Plan for AEGEE for upcoming three years and creating an Action Agenda for the next year.
Brave AEGEEans (who prefer working for AEGEE instead of relaxing on the beach) are developing our Focus Areas, improving their aims, creating objectives, brainstorming about activities and actions…all day, all night! Yes, some extremely committed members decided to skip the party yesterday and work till late night in order to assure high quality of our Strategic Plan – that´s what I call a dedication!
Writing these words on hot Saturday afternoon, being surrounded by people, ideas, discussions and having all those plans and creative thoughts in the air makes me wonder – where will AEGEE be in three years? Today is the last day of the Planning Meeting, so we all have to use the remaining power and focus on finalising our work. Well, we are working on the Strategic Plan, so I guess we simply have to work harder than ever, right? :)
Comité Directeur 2010/2011, Comité Directeur 2011/2012, planning team and a group of dedicated AEGEE members- those are the people who are currently planning the future of our association.
For us, Comité Directeur 2010/2011, this is the last event where we are representing the European board of AEGEE and we are starting to feel a bit nostalgic (and we still don´t believe that in few days, our term will be over and our non-AEGEE lives will start againJ). For the new team, Comité Directeur 2011/2012, this is their first event where they are still not officially in charge, but they are already experiencing that crazy mess and busy times, so they are starting to get an idea about how their upcoming year will look. For the hard-working planning team and amazing participants, this event is a great opportunity to contribute to AEGEE´s focus in next three years. And of course I have to mention also wonderful local organisers from AEGEE-Poznan who are doing great job assuring that the event is running without problems.
Today, we´ll finish with all the work and soon after this event, you´ll get a chance to see the outcome of our Planning Meeting and you´ll also get a chance to contribute to the drafting of the final version of Strategic Plan.
Now I have to finish this blogpost, because soon the closing plenary will start and I still have to prepare some presentations for that:)
