The first two weeks

It is almost two weeks now that my team and I are fully in charge and "alon" in the office - our predecessors have eventually left one week after our last national conference and we have officially taken over as the national executive board of AIESEC in Germany. How does it feel?

For me personally it is strange. Having been part of the old team, now leading the new one, of course the first days felt kind of strange. The last week with both teams here in Bonn had been marked by "Farewell-BBQs" and the "Farewell/Take-Over Party" and then, all of a sudden, you enter the office and the people you worked with for one year are not there anymore, and everything now somehow feels new and like "first time" (it actually is...). The first team meeting, the first round of functional updates, the first round of individual goal setting talks with my team members, ...

Yet I have to say, that sensation of "new" fades quite quickly. So many things are happening and push you into your new role that you do not actually have the time to realize at what moment you have actually started to feel to have arrived in the role (or if I even have yet). There had been the planning days of our National Support Teams, my selection for the Global Steering Team, the "Big Discussion Day" yesterday... All of a sudden you find yourself not thinking anymore about what your role requires you to do, you just do it. 

And how is it for my team? I can only assume of course how everyone of the team is feeling, but this bunch of random individuals as which we arrived two months ago here in Bonn has found together by now to an autonomously running maschine that seems to require less and less adjustments every day. And it seems that the amount of insider-jokes we create is progressively increasing... We have our weekly team-dinners, meetings (with the entire team, with just a few of us) every day and chill frequently on our balconies at night (that means: after 22:00... still our working times are somehow not yet in a normal state). To sum it up: Somehow &step by step we have grown together more and more as a team, and I am every day more happy to work together with everyone on this team.

Summing it up - there is nothing explicit I wanted to tell with this blog entry, but just give a glipmse into our daily routine and how it feels for a new MC Team at the beginning of its term. Anyway, I hope you somehow enjoyed reading!

All the best,

Felix