{"id":39837,"date":"2017-04-24T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=39837"},"modified":"2017-04-24T00:51:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T22:51:27","slug":"nwm-bilbao-far-beyond-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2017\/04\/24\/nwm-bilbao-far-beyond-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"NWM-Bilbao: Far Beyond Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never thought I would just sit on my computer and start writing about an AEGEE event, but here I am. Having one of the best events of my AEGEE life, I felt that I\u00a0need to share my thoughts and feelings about this event to appreciate both organisers and trainers’ efforts with the whole network.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"FB_IMG_1492019762342Before the event, organisers did their best and found a place \u2013a place with real beds<\/em>– to accommodate for more than 60 people, which seems almost impossible considering the city\u2019s population and size. The event was located in Berriz, a small town near Bilbao, in a \u2018plaza\u2019 where we could sleep, eat, have workshops and party at the same time! I can say that it was really efficient because we did not have to move anywhere but downstairs.<\/p>\n

During the event, it was hard to see the organisers except for coffee breaks, as all of them were working like bees! A group of organisers were preparing the food for us, while the others were getting prepared for the coffee breaks and god knows what else. During meals, we were eating the food that was prepared by local organisers and everything was delicious. Starting with the salad, we had a meal for both meat-eaters and vegetarians, followed by dessert and fruit! I could see that the organisers had a really good fundraising strategy, as they served a lot of things such as cold drinks (coke, Redbull, etc..) for free.<\/p>\n

\"FB_IMG_1492019733731Most importantly, AEGEE-Bilbao managed to integrate the new members with the other members, motivating them to get to know AEGEE and its \u2018charms\u2019. All of the new members were totally motivated as both organisers and participants, and I can assure that they will become beloved AEGEEans for the next years.
\nWhen it comes to praising trainers, I can easily say they did a great job! As I have mentioned during the evolutions, I was not expecting workshops to be so comprehensive and instructive, as most of the times I was faced with weakly-constructed workshops in AEGEE. However, this event changed my views for good. The trainers encouraged people to join European bodies, analysing our skills and experiences, filling our gaps\u00a0about AEGEE-Europe and its bodies.<\/p>\n

We had a great insight of Civic Education, Conflict Management(#DramaManagement), Role of Netcom, Future of AEGEE, Equal Rights, Migration IG, Youth Mobility WG and other things I cannot recall at the moment.\"FB_IMG_1492019766440 The sessions were really informative for both new and old members. As we worked on proposals, we had many discussions on different topics which we kept discussing in the following days -even though the event was over-, and we actually learnt something to put in practice!<\/p>\n

I am writing this article as special thanks to all organisers and trainers, wishing them much more AEGEEan years with a lot of change.<\/p>\n

Oh, and one more thing: T\u0130P\u0130 TAPA T\u0130P\u0130 TAPA KOR R\u0130 KA!<\/p>\n

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Written by\u00a0\u0130lknur Demir, AEGEE-Ankara<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never thought I would just sit on my computer and start writing about an AEGEE event, but here I am. Having one of the best events of my AEGEE life, I felt that I\u00a0need to share my thoughts and feelings about this event to appreciate both organisers and trainers’ efforts with the whole network. Before the event, organisers did… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":39861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,397],"tags":[1333,394,1937,2265],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39837"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39881,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39837\/revisions\/39881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}