Thinking of applying for EB* 08/09? 1/2

Hello there my dearest AIESEC Tallinn members!

Today I wanted to share very personal story of mine with you :) It is about applying for EB, twice.

 When I became a member of AIESEC Tallinn, I was quite sure that I just want to meet some cool people and spend few hours per week doing some AIESEC stuff. Okey, so things didn't go quite like that :D I didn't even go to the very first Annual Conference when I was a newie...

Still I started to get some funny ideas about applying for EB after my first really awesome conference - Synergy 2006.

I had a lot of doubts: should I apply? What if someone else applies for the same position and I wont get elected? What if I don't know enough about the field I wanted to work with? What if...?

 

They were all crushed one way or the other and I applied. So the first really big thing that hit me hard was that there were sooooo many questions in the application. And quite honestly - for most of the questions, I had no idea what the right answer should be. So it took a lot of time to find answers and write them down so that others would understand my points as well.

Writing the speech was another thing that hit me hard. It was in high school when I last had to write and give a speech like that. Somehow I did it, got through from the interview and was selected to the EB 2006/2007.

And what a wonderful year that was!

You can read more about my journey from getting into AIESEC until I was selected to the EB 06/07 in my personal blog (posting is in English).

The end of part 1.

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*EB = Executive board