The first 10 days of transition have rushed by. Exciting times have begun!

Key highlights until now:

* Welcome to Rotterdam – Thanks to Laura who made a beautiful mini Rotterdam tour for the new team which was so much fun! The new team paired up with few members of the current team and had to run around Rotterdam hunting famous places, talking to random Dutch people on the streets learning history about Rotterdam and learning their first few Dutch words.

* The first weekend was a session facilitated in a park by Jarda and Mairi with both the teams about building a community of learning. Two AI teams working for 2 months from various backgrounds, bringing diverse and rich experiences ; how can we work together making a community of learning? What is the need for building a community like that? Great discussions
to kick start transition.

* Take off weekend for AI 07-08

The Take Off weekend is a unique experience that each AI team gets at the start of their experience together - going through a very deep discovery and connection experience based on sharing their emotional autobiographies etc. and there was loads of fun was supported by eating, drinking and looking 'still' at the bungy jumping people on the beach the following day after which the day ended looking at their previous success as individuals and sharing them with the rest of the team.

* Landing weekend for AI 06-07

As the new team had a take off weekend, the current team hosted a landing weekend. The current team spent some quality time barbecuing and having a good night with spirits :) singing songs until pretty late. Ondrej’s guitar bonded and entertained the current team for a great Saturday night.

* The theme of transition is "From Kindergarden to MBA in 60 days".

The first block kickstarted where the new team was introduced to their family – which is AIESEC for people who dint guess it :). The block responsible is Jeanne from AI!

Victor Louwenstein and Marco Villa who have been prestigious alumni of AIESEC visited the office sharing stories around different areas and their perspectives from their era of AIESEC.

The entire week was spent on AIESEC history, AIESEC Today and AIESEC Future. The new team went through the big folders in the library, talked to people and compiled an output into an AIESEC History book writing their thoughts from 1948 onwards until today on what has been happening briefly throughout different years and how AIESEC has evolved responding to the external environment and society.

One of the interesting moments of AIESEC History:

Also individual transition started on last Thursday.

* The first meeting of IC planning was held which created a lot of excitements on how IC shall shape up as the biggest physical touch point of the entire AIESEC network

* There are interesting sessions called Play, Doodle, Draw that run once every week. This is run by Dey who is a master of visual presentations and creativite powerpoint designs. Not undermining how visually aesthetic creative designs / powerpoints / proper formatted documents can impact your work, these sessions aim to give this important skill to the new team.

The CEE and WENA GN boards are here as well along with the Steering Team – so team dinners have gone on to about 50 people :) and the AI office has never been so packed!

On another note, the new team has an absolute healthy start to their term with 15 members of the new team already signed up for the gym here and starting to go regularly. Work life balance is of critical importance!

Signing off from a humid Rotterdam and a jam packed AI office!

Stay tuned for more...

Amit
On Behalf of AIESEC International

Welcome from a surprisingly sunny day in Rotterdam :-) - this must be a sign.

It's that time of the year again... The new global leadership team that will continue to lead AIESEC to an era of heights never seen before, that will take AIESEC closer to its vision for 2010 have arrived to Teilingerstraat 126.

Today, AIESEC International 06-07 finishes 365 days of their AI year today and AIESEC International 07-08 starts their first day of transition in the AI office Rotterdam.

AI 05-07 on June 1, 2006

AI 06-08 on June 1, 2007

We have the entire new team present today (except Martha) who is working in the Azri office in Hyderabad. We are looking forward to have her join us in about a month's time.

Jarda (the current CEE director) is the main transition responsible. The transition is user-centred :-) - and our expert designer member of the IS team Gee has put that in a beautiful format. Here it is:

The first day started off with welcoming the new team and having a good detailed tour of the AI office. The new team also spent some time together getting to know each other. The first block of getting to know Rotterdam will be kickstarted today evening by having a short treasure hunt around Rotterdam.

From now onwards, every week, we will share with you what has been happening with about 40 crazy individuals in the AI office. Another cool aspect of this transition will be that you will have an opportunity to interact with the new team virtually at some occassions.

Here are first few moments of transition:

Stay tuned for more...

Amit
On Behalf of AIESEC International