Looking Back

So now comes the time when am looking back on the days that I 1st joined AIESEC in Sept. 04, back in the day I was soooo happy to join such an organization that helps develop us and activates us to be future leaders one day … I was so motivated that I never let an opportunity unless I ran for it where I used to tell myself “never not apply for smthing cuz u never know what cud’ve happened if u didn’t”… so 1st thing I ran for was IS coordinator, I did well and I was managing our community homepage to the extent that it was the best that day and it made other LC’s rethink that they needed to improve thiers aswell … they even formed teams to actually do that which I have to admit in the end mine was the worst in between them ”haha” due to it’s simplicity and lack of resources to go to … after that I ran again for OC in our national conference “NATCO” where I got OCVPIS… which was another step for my managing IS resources in AIESEC … where I was responsible for communication and establishing a website and developing delegate applications for every1 nationally and internationally, it went pretty well and even during the conference every1 was quite impressed by the way we made almost automated whether if it was signing up, accounting, rooming, I even got the opportunity to be the DJ and I was mixing with 2 laptops over a TECHNIC mixer that was there in the hotel “interesting for a DJ who used to mix on turntables back in the states”, then when we started packing up to leave and the conference ended .. I was soo sad to leave and the fact that the conference is over had me overwhelmed … but I felt that it was one benchmark that me and the team did for AIESEC EGYPT and that every1 was proud of.
Then came the day for our local elections and it was a day that I awaited for a long time, I was running for VPOGX but unfortunately I didn’t get confidence that day which left me devastated with the fact that I found half of my LC not thinking that I am a qualified leader for my LC, but in the end I was selected when they re-opened positions and so,
2nd step in my leadership role was to apply for the MC where I was determined to apply for VPIS and I wanted to asses and build a complete IS structure for Egypt’s MC but I got 50% of the votes again!!! Which wasn’t enough for me to be elected … yet I found out that some ppl didn’t want me on the MC for the fact that I wanted to start up IS out of nothing which was really a very weird thing to believe and actually hear… personally I still don’t get the way some of our leaders think about stuff or even assessing ppl to actually vote, since me and my friend Bahaa ran for MC and we both didn’t get elected due to the fact that we are from Alexandria and the rest of the LCs are all in Cairo so basically a lot didn’t know us and due to the lack of coordination of MC at that time EBs of other LC’s didn’t know our progress and how we handle things or even our achievements until its too late… which was a big disappointment…. But as I said at the start … I will not lose hope and I have other plans that am willing to achieve … but one of the things that I feel proud of is that I’ve managed a wonderful team in my term as VPOGX and over half of them are going to run in elections which is one of the things I’m very proud of and I wish all of them the best of luck!!

I can't think!

It's kinda funny right now while I feel that if I post up my problems I'll actually feel better,
so who knows we'll see in the end.

so back in Feb. I applied for being on the MC of AIESEC Egypt and I got 50% of the votes, so that basically meant that I lost... I decided that I won't run again for MC since ppl were telling me that there will not be a MCVP IS, although I felt that it was a way to push me away for some reason but I agreed and decided not to run again for the MC when they re-opened for selections; Instead I decided to go for IT coordinator for IPM 07 that will be held in Egypt... cuz from the way I see it it'll be my last Big contribution for AIESEC Egypt because I'll be graduating next fall and I wanted to go on interning and run for leadership positions internationally not to mention probably AI aswell ... I know that it's been 2 years since I've joined AIESEC but the amount of knowledge I learnt and people from all around the world I got to meet either online or in person is magnificent... And I will do my best to contribute as much as I can to it before I resign.

as my MSN screen name says ... Keep the Faith ... u never know .... Meaning that I will pursue my dream and not lose hope till it is the end of all opportunities which I doubt since I heard sm1 say before " if one door shuts infront of u ... Don't lose hope... It's just meant to be ... Because one door shuts and another one opens up ... It's just a matter of time to find that door"
I believe in that .... And I have a lot of people supporting my decisions and they got my back till the end ....

well actually I kinda feel better already now that I got some of that off my back ... haha .... blogging and listening to Armin van buuren at the same time is a real pain killer