LC Sofia - my story is over

It's been more than three years since I've joined AIESEC and LC Sofia UNWE in particular. Today was the official end of my EB term and the "oaths" of the EB 2006/2007.
It's a strange love (like in the song of Depeche Mode that I'm listening to at the moment). As I go back in time now I remember mostly the good moments. As if now I see my life then as flashbacks...
Stiliana and Maggie being so serious while interviewing me... The voice of Maggie on the phone telling me about the Local Introduction Seminar 2003... Me entering the LC office for the first time - the old one, painted in blue. Liubo asking me for the delegate fee while trying to get nearer as jumping over luggage... The keys for the rooms at the site of LIS. Vergie being the chair. Hmm, a useful booklet - What is AIESEC and contact list of the LC members... The interactive ways we learned about the AIESEC principles... The first party (Halloween theme) with Nasko using a curtain as a mantle... All the delagates, facilitators and OC in a circle singing Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" and Nasko and Ivo making some funny gestures while changing a bit the name of the song...:) Tsvety as my team leader in the SN team... Mitko Chobanov and Stella talking to me about a mistake I've made... Stiliana being my mentor and the other mentees - Emo, Lile, Stefan & Stasi. The first national conference. The Faci team mostly o the current MC 2003/2004... The elections for MCP... Interpreting to Tom what the candidates were saying....I missed the last part of them... BLDS 2004 in Sofia... Me in the OC... Me slipping in front of the elevator and the box with algae powder for the delegates falling on the ground and 1/4 of it spreading... Me collecting the spread powder and hiding in in the thrash can nearby...:) The video on leadership topic with Vicky the facilitator. Organizing the company trainings sites... Me waiting at 6 o'clock at a tram stop with a couple of bags with bread for the breakfast... The sugarcubes at the end of the conference... Eb elections for term 2004/2005. Nasko elected as LCP. Me - coordinator Finance selected by the EB later. The Local Planning Conference at Vitosha. The EB 2003/2004 being so sad while "passing the ball" to the new EB and then leaving the conference... The summer of 2004. Me, Nasko, Ivo, Leny and Stoyan meeting almost every day at lunch in the centre discussing about AIESEC and stuff. LIS 2004 and the new members. My birthday being the party topic of the first day of LIS... A small kitten coming to the site and me - taking it home and naming it after the conference - Lisa. :) Marin, Pesho, nasko & Ivo talking about the Pernik region which made the perfect movie...:) Me being a mentor for the first time. I matched a TN and Nando came to Bulgaria. :) New Year's Eve party at my place with AIESECers...:) Time for decision for me whether to continue in the EB next term. Election time. Me - VP Finance 2005/2006. BLDS 2005 in Varna. The reflection time I had during my travel to Varna by bus. The music I was listening to... kircho showing funny videos... The closing of the conference when Kircho, Stella and Stiliana gathered us - all @BG EBs... You are the future of AIESEC in Bulgaria. Look around you and you'll see the people you'll be working with through the whole year. Count the days you have for AIESEC. How much in the end...? The National planning conference in May 2005... Dolni Lozen - the site of my first LIS in AIESEC - a place of good memories. Preparing Local Planning Conference with the EB. Me not going for personal issues... May-June - hard and intense times for me in general. 7 exams in UNWE, 2 for CAE of Cambridge... my EB term starts... Preparation for the recruitment campaign 2006... Presentation and me talking about the opportunities in financial area in AIESEC... Assessment centre with complicate schedule... Preparation for LIS 2005... Stella coming from Turkey to be the chair... Sleepless nights of preparation. Stressful times but intense learning times... My session for AIESEC Identity which started shaping even more my perception of AIESEC... 2006 - the most intense learning period for me: my EB, my team, the LC members. Conscious learning. EB elections and our successors elected. Hopes for a more united LC with a perfect EB team. Me reflecting upon the year. Me and the EB team 2005/2006 realizing how time has passed so quickly... Preparation for the official "takeover". Great times with EB 2005/2006. Lile's place, drinking beer, discussing women' stuff (of course, we had to prove to everyone that they were right to expect such meetings from a girls EB. :)) PPT preparation... Laughter while coming up with the funny sentences... The party at the Local planning conference. EB 2005/2006 speeches... PPT... Funny oaths... PPT for the EB 2006/2007... Champagne... Steli giving a speech as the LCP... Hugs and words with between EBs... Giving the globe with AIESEC logo to the LC... Finishing with the champagne in my cup... Taking a cab... Entering my place... Writing this post...

The End.


P.S. Actually it's not the end. It's a continuation of a good friendship with my EB team. I keep the good memories of the past times in my LC of origin. The story is not over because we can still meet the LC members and remember the past good and bad times. The story is not over because if it were, it would have meant that we want to forget totally about our firends in the LC and the times we've had there. No matter that I'm still in AIESEC in the MC, I will always remember the times spent in the LC - the things I've learned, the people I've met and I'll contuinue to meet, the moments I had there. Thank you, LC Sofia, for giving me the opportunities to develop myself and in considerable degree to be the person I am today. Now we should go forward: keeping the memory of the past times - bad and good, and climbe the highest mountains - each of us in our own special way. Good luck!

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