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ESTIEM Insights | ESTIEM Events
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ESTIEM Podcast makes a shiny return as In this episode, we take a deep dive into the vibrant world of ESTIEM events! Discover how these events bring together students from across Europe to share knowledge and create lasting connections. We’ll explore what makes ESTIEM events a cornerstone of personal and professional growth for young leaders. Tune in to hear inspiring stories, insider tips, and the impact of these incredible opportunities.
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Introduction and Guest Roles
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, and welcome to a brand new episode of SDM Insights. My name is Gilje, your host, and I'm joined by Joao, the VP of activities in the 34th board and newly elected Alexa and Mikey, the intercultural development department coordinator and the activity week leader. As we dive into our topic SDM events, please inter introduce yourself guys. I think the big message starts.
00:00:29
Speaker
Oh, I'm the big man. Sorry. I didn't know that. Okay, I can start. Hi, my name is Alexa. I'm from LG Belgrade. And I am the next IDTC. I'm very excited for the start of my mandate in five days. And very, very happy to be honored to join this ah episode of the podcast. Congratulations.
00:00:56
Speaker
congratulations And then we can continue with Mikey. Yeah, so Mikey is a good chat, the next activity week leader. um My man has already started. We have had a few activity weeks before the summer, which was leader. And thank you for inviting me here. I'm excited to talk with to you guys. And we have to pick the other big man left. Thank you. So, so hello, I'm Joel.
00:01:27
Speaker
And I'm from local group Avairo and I'm the current VP of activities for a few more days. And I'm very excited to be here and to share some some of some of the ah very cool stuff that this team did during during this year in terms of events and also get some discussions going regarding events.
00:01:46
Speaker
Are you already letting some tears at the end of your mandate you are? Not yet, not yet. Maybe in a few days. He'll be happy to retire.
Types and Benefits of SDM Events
00:02:00
Speaker
ah so Can you give us an overview of the types of events a team organizes? Yes, I mean, ah in a very summarized way, I would say that there are two main categories of of events. Those that have as the main goal, as the purpose of the event, to develop the participants and in those we have four different types. So the ones that focus on developing the participants academically, career-wise, personally and interculturally.
00:02:29
Speaker
um And then there's also the the category of events where the main purpose is to develop esteem or the local groups um And in this category we have for instance the coordination meetings. We have the board training events. We have the local responsible forms Yeah, etc but the but the the reality is that in fact that This is all very, very intertwined. And whatever event you join, you always develop yourself personally. You always develop yourself interculturally by meeting people of of different cultures. Your local group always develops because you also you also get some tips and tricks from other local groups. You also learn how different local groups organize events, how different local groups organize themselves. um And S-Team always benefits with what event that that is organized.
00:03:21
Speaker
But in a very summarized way, those are the events that we have. What are the key benefits for SDMs attending these events? Well, I mean, the benefit is, of course, that you develop yourself and you develop a team, you you develop your your local group. But the the very important thing, and I think what differentiates us from other events, is the fun part. And I mean, in whatever event you you join, you always have a lot of fun.
00:03:50
Speaker
you always meet people from from different cultures which is very exciting um and at the same time you also you also make very good connections and you make friendships but I would like to hear what Alex alex and Mikey but like yeah we would say about this. Well I want to add that ah that is something I think our local group also uses. I think eteem that one of the key benefits is is of Esteem Events is it's your own little playground in a way because in a let's say sort of secure environment ah students and young people have the opportunity to
00:04:30
Speaker
ah organize certain types of events and get practical knowledge in the fields of industrial engineering and management. And also they can implement ideas and give their own little touch and the initiatives for the network and in general for the events. I am noticing, it really opens people up when they go to a lot of s STV events.
00:04:58
Speaker
ah you see a noticeable difference at the beginning of your esteem career and at the end for example now it's the most normal thing to go to the other side of Europe to see a friend whereas maybe at the beginning of your maybe like a few years ago it was a big journey and now how do I say the world has become a little bit smaller um but in a good way so not in a bad way
00:05:25
Speaker
But your comfort zone has gone a lot ah bigger.
Personal Growth Through Events
00:05:31
Speaker
yeah Joao, what do you think? Yeah, I agree. At at the beginning, and at my first team events, I was very much surprised by how how deep connections we could the we could build in such in such a few days. And that was and that was very nice. And still today, like I noticed that then and sometimes like we're we're together with some people in an event for three or four days and and we feel like we're already best friends forever.
00:06:01
Speaker
and yeah and Another thing I would also like to highlight about this team events is a little bit what Alexa said with the playground. and yeah I think that in general, like everyone else has a different path in this team and everyone joins different events. Some people are more into fun events, some people are more into into a very like the motivation is just to to learn a new skill or learn a new language. And everyone has has as has a different path and all of them are correct and all of them make sense and all of them like bring value to ah to ah to the person. And that is also something very nice is our portfolio also provides a lot of different opportunities, I think. Yeah. Yeah, for me, like personally, when I compared with my first events, I attended
00:06:50
Speaker
I wasn't so confident. I wasn't really living in myself before I start traveling alone with SDM. And I also got very fluent in English and that's for the key benefits for me in my life. And we can continue with the further question.
Impact of COVID on Events
00:07:11
Speaker
ah How many events did SDM host last year? And like what was the number of participant participants? Okay.
00:07:20
Speaker
Well, um i can say from ah with I will answer that question starting from from August 1st, 2023. So ah this whole association year, by the time we are recording this, we're approaching the end of of this association year. so so So this number should be more or less final. We organized a total of 178 events, and out of those 136 were offline.
00:07:48
Speaker
And if we sum up all of the participants, both for online and offline events, we had a total of 3,760 participants, and not a yes, 3,760 travels done by a total of 1,800 individuals. So, I mean, it's it's quite some numbers.
00:08:13
Speaker
for it's a It's a very satisfying. Yeah, and and also like ah important important to to notice is this this ah these are just the events that were uploaded in the portal and the participants that were registered in the portal. So in reality, it's more because there's there's it's very common to have crashers in events and to have people joining ah for for some days. And those numbers are not counted into into this. And also local events are not counted.
00:08:46
Speaker
So, ah do you think that this year was more travels compared to last year's, like, especially after COVID? How do you consider this year's work, Joe, especially for you? Yeah. So in terms, so, ah so since COVID up until now, since ah offline, offline events started happening again, um the number has increased every year.
00:09:14
Speaker
so So this year we had more events than we had last year, and last year i had more events than we had the year before, <unk> etc. ah but the But if we compare the number of events that we had this year with the number of events that we had before COVID,
00:09:29
Speaker
then we're still a little bit below. So we haven't still reached the number of events that we had before COVID, but we're we're getting there step by step. It's also important to to notice that ah we used to have more local groups than what we have currently. So that also explains a little bit why the number is lower. And if we look at the participants, then then it's pretty much the same, ah which is which is very interesting. So although now we have less um less events than what we had before COVID, the total number of participants is pretty much the same. So, I mean, what happened was our events started being bigger or like ah the effort. well Were they smaller in the and the past? Sorry? this now it's Now it's usual to have 15 participants. Was this previously different?
Esteem Events and Personal Development
00:10:21
Speaker
and not and Not very different, just just like a small difference and then i mean combined everything together makes makes a yeah makes ah makes makes a difference. Now, I don't know exactly the average right now, and but yeah but ah but it has increased. I mean, I'm a stalker and when I stalked previous event before COVID, it's never above 20.
00:10:49
Speaker
Like the total applicants? Yeah, no. Number of artists is never more than 20. Except CMs. Really? Because we have 25 coming for Europe 3D in Serbia. And are we the only odd ones out?
00:11:10
Speaker
I mean, 25 is an incredible number. Yeah, 25 is for sure like an exception. but But there are many events that have 20 participants. So I can continue. How do esteem events contribute to personal developments? Okay, I can take this off up. Honestly, like when I see how I started like how i started when i started in esteem, and me now, I do think it's personally
00:11:45
Speaker
it gives you a lot of room to grow and a lot of room for introspection. My first, let's say, ah personal thing in Esteem was going to the Autumn Academy in Trondheim in November of 2021. And even though like I consider myself very ah prone to self-development and I'm very crazed in in that area. I still think that that, like, that event for people who are not, let's say, that that into personal development and self-awareness is something monumental, which is also ah evident in people, whoever, whoever like every esteemer I know that is that has attended the Summer Academy,
00:12:35
Speaker
ah say that it in a way changed their life. And so I think that that is that is one of the biggest, let's say, a personal development. Coincidentally, it's in the personal development department. so um But other than that, I do think that it gives ah just the sheer opportunity to meet new people and ah hear their experiences and see their line of thinking ah really I think also as Joao mentioned ah his change from the beginning and like and now ah really really gives you a ah different view on the world yeah I completely agree with what you said Alexa and also we talked about it a little bit before right so we talked about the English like for many people that started in esteem not an analyst maybe but maybe some other places
00:13:34
Speaker
The English you learn is just a little bit less. You practice less, maybe. In some countries, for example, the videos in the cinema, they are dubbed over. And in the Netherlands, it's, for example, just English. So we are used to hearing it a lot. So esteem is a great place to to practice speaking and hearing. And it's really not a problem if you're not speaking well at all.
00:14:02
Speaker
Also, we talked about traveling alone, which is a big step in the beginning, when you do it first. But as you travel more, it becomes very normal, actually. And when you look back, you almost don't even think about it. We talked about self-confidence and social skills, which are also really important factors in my opinion. You really see that you grow in those things when you attended so many esteemed events with people that are so open-minded.
00:14:30
Speaker
and
00:14:33
Speaker
willing to to learn about you, willing to learn new things, and who are here to to have the best time they can.
Career Influences of Esteem Events
00:14:43
Speaker
Is there anything else you would like to add to that maybe? I mean, it it was already mentioned, but but for me, what is really like ah what really develops people personally, at least from my side, is really contacting with people from from different cultures.
00:14:59
Speaker
and with that I mean you really broaden your horizon in terms of ah ah different realities and how people live differently in different parts of Europe and that is just like in terms of course this is also intercultural development um but it's also very but I would say it's also personal development and in this case and you really learn yeah and like you just learn a lot about yourself ah and about your your surroundings through that
00:15:31
Speaker
um i wanted i wanted to I wanted to ask something. Raul, since you mentioned now, the like meeting new people from different cultures, ah I think it would be fun for us to share our biggest, let's say, cultural shocks on our travels. like what What was the biggest cultural shock for you guys? And then I'll share mine as well. Actually, I have a great answer to this. um When I went to the Balkans,
00:16:02
Speaker
they uh... they do not hesitate to drink rakya in the morning or in the afternoon before every meal or after every meal if some other countries that will be considered alkalism but in the the Balkans this is considered health it was maybe one of my biggest culture shows as a Balkan myself I can add to this usually in the countryside uh... people literally start they start their day with either like a strong rakia at breakfast or sometimes when they go into like go to work in the countryside they bring mild rakia for literally like gas like it's like gasoline you know you're drinking your work the real gasoline well I mean I can say that one one shock I had was when I was in Finland
00:16:57
Speaker
ah I saw that a lot of ah lot of students drink milk during their meal, like lunch. And that for me was super, super weird. And I mean, it's just something that you you don't see in Portugal. Like this is absurd. And I mean, this is a very funny cultural shock. Of course, there are more serious ones. It it happens. I mean, it happened to me like to to to meet people from from from different cultures and be like, oh, you're from this country.
00:17:26
Speaker
Oh yeah, I heard that here you guys do this you know with with a very like with a very big stereotype and then the guy's just like, what do you mean? like That is super offensive. like Can you not say that to me? like that that That also happens ah a few times and I think it's also part of like the development that the person goes through in his team.
00:17:47
Speaker
Yeah, definitely the stereotypes thing is is something that esteem really crashes. But as for my culture of shock, it was, as the aforementioned, the Autumn Academy in Norway, I arrived there a day earlier for the event and I was hosted. And I did not eat at the time for 20 hours because that trip was really hectic.
00:18:15
Speaker
And I arrived at my host's place and ah it was this beautiful smell of fried vegetables, like ah roaming the entire apartment. And I was like, oh yes, this is gonna be awesome. And so I greeted my host and he finished preparing the meal. he We both sat at the table and he proceeded to eat the entire meal by himself without offering me anything. And I sat there literally culturally shocked because like in the Balkans, when you when when a when a guest arrives in your in your house, the first thing you ask like, are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Like you eat before I do. Yeah, I was thinking about that as well. Like there's a big, big difference in hospitality in the north and in the south. It doesn't matter where in the south, as long as you're below the Netherlands, because in the Netherlands, we are not hospitable, unfortunately.
00:19:09
Speaker
and maybe Maybe some people, of course, but the heart is southern. When you go to whatever Portugal, Serbia, when you go to Turkey, like Alexa said, they they offer you food, they offer you to to a place to stay for the night. It's it's the most normal thing.
00:19:29
Speaker
Yeah, no, let me let let me not leave it at at such a bad point. In the end, my host did offer me food. and like we We went over some topics and then we got to food again. He was like, oh, sorry, are you hungry? and i'm like Kinds a little bit, yeah. um But yeah, ah in the end, I ate. ah But what I wanted to say was I afterward like researched a little bit. And in the in the in Norway, at least, and I think in the Nordics as well, ah you they perceive it as you're responsible for your own food. So for instance, I heard that if I came over to a friend's place,
00:20:09
Speaker
and we hung out and his family invited him for lunch. He would go and eat lunch and I would stay and up in his room and wait for him to finish lunch. That's that's part of their culture, actually.
00:20:24
Speaker
But in Balkans, if we suffer, we suffer together. Absolutely. But in the Balkans, you're youre if if if you're going to stay hungry, it's because you're the host. So your your guest ate a lot and he's satisfied. So that' that's fine. You're happy. So to continue, can you share an example of a participant who choose career was positively influenced by attending esteem events?
Challenges in Event Organization
00:20:51
Speaker
That's actually more a career development or academic development related question.
00:20:57
Speaker
Okay, I think I can already have a person in mind and it's somebody from my local group actually. It's Nikolay Ivanovich. I know that he like he started in his team and I remember meeting him like at his like at when he actually started in his team. And he was so like kind conscious and self-aware about his English and very worried about that.
00:21:22
Speaker
But a then and when he was the project leader for CM Belgrade and after that, like let's say job offers started, poor Indian for him and he is very satisfied now at his current job. ah So I do think that esteem in general very positively and influenced his career.
00:21:50
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I can share that. the Yeah, I mean, I've i've also seen people develop their career because of esteem or people using esteem as a way to develop their career and better said, I mean, people, I mean, we we have some some very good offerings in this field as well. We have, for instance, the Olympic Sigma course um that is just amazing. And it opens a lot of doors for for a lot of people. um But also, like, just ah just the fact that you are traveling around and meeting people that by itself already is already an opportunity for you to to yeah It's already an opportunity for you to to get one step closer to ah to your career and to prepare yourself for for what comes ahead after after studies. ah We have in the same a lot of examples of startups that ah that were created in in such ways. A lot of them have been have been successful, some of them have not.
00:22:42
Speaker
ah which is also natural. But ah but either way, people people develop themselves. And of course, we also have events that that also bring ah participants and esteemers closer to the corporate world. were um And all of these are just very good opportunities, I think. Of course, for for most of us, our university, our our local group group, our mother organization, et cetera, also provides and such opportunities. But in this team,
00:23:13
Speaker
I find that at least compared to my university, the the scope is a lot wider and ah the companies that that are present are not only and the companies that are operating in Portugal or around Avairu, but the companies that are operating all across Europe. um And we also have a lot wider scope of industries. So, all in all, I think Esteem is also, is also, and that the playground can also be used to to develop our career.
00:23:43
Speaker
I mean, as an example, I can recall there was a steam hunt and it was really beneficial for many of them. Actually, one of my friends got connected with Shell's head, the Shell company's head in a steam hunt and he got an internship in Shell this summer and it was amazing. So, Mikey, what do you want to say?
00:24:12
Speaker
I can say something, besides professional development, and also I have not seen that many people from beginning to now, until their estimated careers, because I've been here for one and a half years now. But one of the people I see developed a lot was my co-boy, and I, Talvish Aoka. We started our careers approximately at the same time.
00:24:40
Speaker
And we both now have around 20 events. And I really saw an opening up to new things, to unexpected things, and having a lot of fun with that. And yeah, and also, yeah, so to how to handle a lot of different situations, you learn with organizing events at going to the but also and also, that also shows your
00:25:11
Speaker
yourself as team of course you know that you can handle a lot of situations no matter where you are what time if it's 4am or if you are in Serbia so ah what you mentioned might be that organizing an event develops us for our careers I do think that ah it it gives us immense opportunity not just to practice certain things but also contacts, because for instance, when you have to, I don't know, organize a night activity for an event, you need to contact certain clubs, certain, let's say, people from event organization, and it gives you a lot of opportunities to put forth your name and for to get your contacts in, and then that can lead to another contact, and then that could lead to your future job.
00:26:05
Speaker
And I do think that that is something very, very beautiful that esteemed events provide. Furthermore, what are some common challenges faced when organizing these events? And how does esteemed address issues such as accessibility and inclusion since the issue raised in the last two CMs? I'll break up that question in two questions.
Accessibility and Inclusion Initiatives
00:26:30
Speaker
So firstly, what are um some of the common challenges that are faced that people face when organizing events. In this case, like a i mean if look at at at the local groups, of the most common problems are financing the the event ah that ah that is on on one side, and then also the the second side is is when regarding human resources, then that leads to also inability to host people cheaply.
00:27:01
Speaker
um So those are are the main problems that our local groups are facing now. um I mean, yeah, and they're both sort of connected in that way. Yeah, I agree with what you said. ah Human resources, hosting, it's a big ah barrier for accepting more than 50 people to be fans.
00:27:26
Speaker
I would also like to say logistics during events. it something It's that's often very hard to plan, even if you have the right amount of people. You can have waiting time a lot. Participants arrive at different times, maybe even during part of your schedule. Getting the food from place A to B. All things that seem in essence quite easy, but when you have to do them, you encounter to a lot of problems.
00:27:54
Speaker
I don't know if you have counted that as well. Yeah, yeah. but But would you not say that that is also related to problems with human resources and the organizers just being too few to handle the workload that organizing an event requires? Yeah, I think regardless of the amount of people that requires a lot of planning.
00:28:15
Speaker
I wanted to say that I don't think with what the issues you mentioned, Mikey, are not connected that much to human resources because you can have enough people and still face those challenges regardless. Because like I don't know, from for instance, like our local group doesn't have any issue with human resources. There's there's enough active members, but then still certain issues certain issues come up, especially logistically, as you mentioned.
00:28:41
Speaker
ah that mostly, I think logistics is ah is very unpredictable with what can happen and very very very surprising and mix has to as to make you think on your feet and solve the the the problem in the moment. yeah Yeah, I have maybe a nice example with this. It ain't over. We always have bikes, for example, as well we have biking.
00:29:10
Speaker
and to get the bikes we are meeting at station because we ran them from there and four months ago we had an exchange with two local groups one from Poland and one from Portugal and one time we met at the station and what happened was the people from Krakow were right on time maybe five minutes late but the people from Portugal yeah we don't know some arrived 30 minutes late one arrived at the time somewhere right one hour late yeah so the rest of the week so indeed this is a good example regardless how how much people you have you can still encourage these logistical problems but the rest of the days we we tackled this by telling the people from Poland that he would meet one hour later and so for example let's say we meet at 10 people from Portugal we say we meet at 9
00:30:09
Speaker
And then they were about the same time. so we Yeah, quite a challenge, to say the least. And then when it comes to how Esteem is working to address the issues like accessibility and inclusion, I mean, our main project as Esteem is the Club of 100. That is an alumni project that Esteemers are also involved in.
00:30:36
Speaker
um and yeah that for sure is is what we use the most and um and yeah and for anyone that that is looking into traveling somewhere and they simply don't have enough budget, um ah to do so, Club of 100 is there too ah to to help everyone and you can quite easily find it out just by Googling Esteem Club of 100 or you can also look at the atti portal, you you can find the link to it and that is that is the main ah main project, i mean the main thing we use to address such such issues. And then of course a lot of local groups also have their own way of financing events and reimbursing travelers.
Humorous Experiences in Event Organization
00:31:21
Speaker
um That is also something very good that should be more encouraged, I think.
00:31:30
Speaker
And guys, do you want to say some last words before we close? Maybe our listeners would like to hear some more funny event stories. Event organizing. I guess all of us have organized maybe several events by now. I have another few stories up my sleeve that I would love to hear some some Balkan stories maybe even. I'm up for that.
00:32:01
Speaker
I attended the Europe 3D in 2021 after the COVID and it was the best event I've ever attended. Local group Belgrade is really playing on the highest level because everyone was so ah in touch in communication you can feel that and ah all of the participants were actually really nice people like ah it was easily understandable that you guys put so much effort on organizing that event and when you're choosing people you ah act wisely obviously it was the best event I've ever attended
00:32:48
Speaker
I'm glad to hear it and I will pass it on to the organizers as well and tell them to listen to the to the podcast episode if they're not already gonna be. Okay, then I guess I can pick up the baton. um I don't know, so far I've had experience organizing three.
00:33:09
Speaker
events like internationally. So one was CM Belgrade, another was an exchange, and the third one is this one that I'm currently working on now. for, I don't know, a story for CM Belgrade, there's a ton of them. Honestly, like I don't think that I can pick one. but of the One of the funniest ah things was we at the beginning of the event of the event, we had a flag parade. so we ah all All participants were coming from
00:33:41
Speaker
Tarek Slavia to Satskyi Tarek. Actually, it's where, sorry. I kind of translated to Serbia. And so ah you you see a sea of the steamers going down one of one of the main streets with all their flags. And then I was a volunteer at the time, and I was actually the the guy with the boom mic, mike like with was a big speaker. I can't really remember how it how it's called.
00:34:11
Speaker
um But yeah, and I saw in one instance, like in a sea of esteemers, a traffic sign just fell over. So, esteemers actually succeeded in knocking over a traffic sign with cops present nearly all all around us. So that was really an interesting situation to to tackle.
00:34:34
Speaker
Because like you have to i mean like the police were, let's say, ah informed that they like that everybody will be. But whenever you inform the police, you, let's say, promise to uphold the peace and not make any any problems. And then like knocking over a traffic sign is really a big problem. So that's that's one that i that I can share now. And then we'll circle back if there's time.
Future Esteem Events
00:35:00
Speaker
move And even while the cops were there,
00:35:03
Speaker
well actually I have something else funny because as you know in Eindhoven we love to bike we use a bike to go to the toilet to go to bed we sleep at our bikes essentially so we gave our participants all of them a bike to transport through Eindhoven but of course not all participants have ever maybe even ridden a bike so what happened especially later in the night people drank a few beers one time we organized counter for active TV and it was very chaotic I was with the participants that lost a bike can also happen of course name one problem and I can attach a bike to it anyways so I told her okay here's your bike don't worry
00:35:57
Speaker
And as I was telling that, I heard a loud splurge, like someone fell into water, which is what actually happened. Someone biked and didn't see the big pond, the big ass pond we had at university, and went into a rather straightened bike and everything. So she crawled out, totally wet, it was super cold as well, so we gave her an access jacket and stuff. And then we looked down in the pond because, yes,
00:36:27
Speaker
the bike was still in there so the ask her like but should we do with the bike she jump back writing and i go back to bike because it was' not that deep apparently fortunately and then she crawls out with the bike and everything and everything goes well the moment this is quite quite stressful but in the end was the most Yeah, there's one more one more story that I wanted to to share that came to mind was during the exchange. We had a triple exchange with Calabria and Vaparanta. And that they it happened in April of 2022.
00:37:04
Speaker
And basically, I just actually know it. Yeah. I think it's 2022. Not sure about the year. But yeah, yeah the so we made an entire agenda for like, you know, spring activities, everything. We already sent out the survival guide to people like what are they supposed to bring. And then our weather pulled ah an entire 180 on us and it started to snow in the middle of April. And so you have participants who came there with their T-shirts with shorts with dresses and stuff like that and then they get ah minus three degrees Weather with full-on snow and That was really interesting where I actually at the beginning of the event had to take one Italian girl to buy a hoodie because she didn't bring anything that's even remotely warmer and So that was really, really interesting to to tackle during the organizing of an event.
00:38:06
Speaker
yeah ho yeah was And that reminds me of a very random story. The first time I saw snow in my life or touched snow was ah in a steam event. It was a CDD coordination meeting in Iraos, in Greece, yes, in April.
00:38:23
Speaker
And we were there, and then it started snowing a little bit, just like a few a few snowflakes. And that was my first time seeing snow, and which was a very important moment for me, of course. but the But the second time I saw snow was in another event, and this time in Ilmanau. And like the day before, I i traveled to Ilmanau. I checked the the weather forecast, and I saw that it was predicted to to snow, and there was a lot of snow.
00:38:53
Speaker
And I don't have any any clothes prepared for that. like ah i like I don't have anything. So so i I just went with my normal shoes and with the the warmest jacket I had, but still I struggled a lot during that event. it was a It was beautiful and horrible at the same time. mice Nice experience.
00:39:17
Speaker
And guys, um what are you expecting for future in this team, especially to joining events? What events do you want to join?
00:39:31
Speaker
Well, um I've actually been thinking about it a lot and one thing that I noticed was that I haven't been to an activity week yet. And I know that generally people are usually crazed about going on activity weeks and I still haven't had that one in my portfolio. So definitely an activity week in the near future. And other than that, I would actually ah really enjoy going to a business booster because I've actually experienced ah All of the the fall of the departments, but out of the CDD, I've been to a BX for X days, but not entirely, because it was organized locally, so I wasn't really a participant at the moment. So I definitely want to to get a CDD event as a participant. Same one, that you haven't attempted an activity week event.
00:40:25
Speaker
Yeah, sorry, Mikey, don't be mad at me. Let's make your first one extra special, then. It's a deal. Yeah, but but actually, um I feel the same way as Alexa. I've never participated in organizing an activity week. Everything else is pretty much i either organized or participated in. So, I mean, I would point. And I would like to to join in an activity week. And besides that also, I would also like to join to come to meetings.
00:40:58
Speaker
Okay, as well we we can make plans together, so... Okay. goes i Seems good. No, I'm the exception down here, I guess. I organized a few activity weeks or two. Only a few? Well, as an organizer, I mean, as a leader, also two by now.
00:41:20
Speaker
oh And I've been to... I think also two activity weeks, if I remember correctly. Now I need to check. Anyways, I would love to go to our Academy one time. There's one coming up, but I didn't have time then, unfortunately. But I hear from from many people that it's a life-chasing experience. And, of course, you can never have enough gas on your things. They never go old. There's a reason why alumni from every single age, year, are coming there ah feed every year again.
00:42:00
Speaker
And I believe them. I don't think they'll ever get boring. At least that's what I hope.
Conclusion and Farewell
00:42:10
Speaker
Thank you all for tuning in this episode of esteemed podcast. Thank you or all to our listeners as well. And see you in the next episodes.
00:42:25
Speaker
See you somewhere in Europe. See you guys. Thank you.