ICPS 2008

As I mentioned before, somehow things worked out so that I can attend the biggest national conference in Romania as a facilitator. Last week, it happened, in an extraordinary way. As always I cannot write about all the stories from the conference and they are not meant to be, but let me just say that it was by far the best conference experience I've ever had in my 3 years of AIESEC experience (though I must admit that I feel like that at the end of most conferences).

After the conference, even right now, I feel like Neo in the movie "Martrix" when he first learns the truth about Matrix. Morpheus tells Neo that "You've been living in a dream world Neo", and Neo panics and says "No, I don't believe it...let me out!" And later he realizes that he can't go back to the world he used to live in.

I think I totally emptied out my energy tank AND my emergency energy back up at the conference, and because of that I caught cold...but even that's a good memorable gift for me. Thank you Adina, Alisa, Andreea, Dani, Eve, Marina, Marius, Sami, Shake, and Zakhida, for the greatest moments. We couldn't have done it if any one of you were not there for me, for us, and for the conference. Thank you all the delegates and OC members, everyone else who was there, you guys are the best.

Experience like this motivates me to do great things. I don't know why, it isn't like I want to accomplish great things to show off how awesome I am, but I want to show them and prove to them how they helped me to develop myself. So I beg you my friends, check this blog occasionally so that I can keep you updated of how I'm doing and where I am so that maybe we can meet up at some random places in the world.

Photos will be posted on our facebook group, as well as my Picasa album later. I could not take many pictures because the battery died after the first two days, even before the start of the conference. I assumed that it would last for the entire conference because it lasted through my entire 21 days long bike trip last year without any recharge, but because Zakhida was taking so many pictures during our faci meetings, my camera just gave up. Hell, even my laptop stopped functioning properly on the last day because I abused it so much for the week.

Japanese man without a working camera is like a hot dog without sausage, so I will make sure to bring its charger with me next time!

Oh, I made a post on my LC blog about this as well, if you are interested.