AIESEC PRAHA

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

My DT internship in Izmir Turkey 2008

Ahoj AIESEC Praho,
zdravím Vás všechny až z moc přehřátého Turecka, kde trávím už svůj 2 měsíc na DT praxi, kterou beru jako neuvěřitelnou zkušenost plnou nádherných zážitků, na která nikdy nezapomenu!

Pracuju na projektu Myself-My world, který získal nejlepší ocenění v celém Turecku! Moje práce tady se blíží ke konci, takže Vám teď můžu říct, co jsem tu celé dva měsíce dělala. První týden začal tím, že jsem poznala všech svých 12 spolutraineeků - každý z nich pochází z jiné země, takže jsme byla dost různorodá skupina (Holansko, Polsko, Ukrajina, Kanada, USA, Trinidad a Tobago, Egypt, Hawaii, Čína, Japonsko, Malajsie a Hong Kong). Naše práce začala školením, která se týkala time-managementu, project managementu, team managementu a dalších, od profesionálů na jedné z místních univerzit. Ze všech našich hodin jsme si dělali poznámky, které jsme použili následující týden, kdy jsme "brainstormovali" o letním kempu! V průběhu letních prázdnin jsme pořádali dva letní kempy pro studenty ze středních škol z celého Izmiru. Hlavním naším cílem bylo jim představit naše země, pomoci jim zlepšit jejich angličtinu a naučit je něco nového! Na každém z kempů bylo 60 dětí, takže jsme si je rozdělili do menších skupinek, kde jsme jim představili jednotlivé téma a ve skupinkách jsme hrály hry, které jim pomohly si uvědomit, o čem se ten den bavíme! Jeden den jsme se například bavili o "Body language", kde jsme si pak zkoušeli předevšemi prezentovat nějaké téma. Řekli jsme si, co bylo super, na čem je třeba zapracovat. Pro mě bylo nejkrásnější vidět, když na konci kempu studenti představovali jejich zemi a jak velký pokrok udělali! Zapracovali na sobě a výsledek mohli na sobě vidět sami!

S dětmi jsme prakticky trávili celý den - od ráno 10 hodin do 10 večera, kdy jsme společně šli na večeři a pak seděli na pobřeží u moře! Bylo nádherné vidět, jak nás děti obdivují a berou nás a kemp jako jejich nejlepší zkušenost. Velká většina z nich nikdy nebyla v zahraničí a tahla příležitost jim pomohla si uvědomit, jak moc je důležité učit se cizí jazyk a pracovat na sobě!

Před mým pobytem jsem přesně nevěděla, co mám od tohoto pobytu očekávat, ale teď vím přesně, že to byla zkušenost k nezaplacení. Turecko je země odlišná od té naší a naše rozdílnosti mi pomohly si uvědomit, co v životě chci, bez čeho nedokážu žít a určite si teď vážím toho, co doma mám!

Zuzka

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Looking back for term 2007/2008


...why now? In few weeks my term as MC Director for Exchange Development in AIESEC in Hong Kong will start and new stage of my life.

I still remember the time when i started to think for the first time about EB in Praha - it was at MCP elections in 2007, while eating in the break, Esko(LCP of Praha in 06/07) came to me asked me - dont want you apply for EB in Praha? And my reaction - are you crazy? Im too long in AIESEC, I was not recruited in AIESEC Praha...and his reply - I dont want to get the reply now, just think about it :-) after some time our term started...me as VP XD responsible for the "biggest value of AIESEC Praha" - OGX realisations together with whole EB we started to fight for AIESEC Praha.

EB term was intensive learning for each of us, even for me, as I was already some time in AIESEC. We challenged each other almost every time we met, we had a lot of discussions, misunderstanding, learning, feedbacks, hours and hours of meetings, urgent emails, action steps.... and i can not forget a lot, lot of fun.
Really unforgettable 1 year. And as we gave to AIESEC Praha all the best from ourselves, I hope we moved LC Praha forward...after our term finished - all EB 07/08 members are LEADING BY EXAMPLE.

Lucka now in Hong Kong, going through MC transition
Roman and Vojta are preparing for kick- off Czech MC term 08/09
Martin is sucesfully leading LC Praha as LCP
Klara was selected as project manager of Career Days 2009 as first girl in history, and will go for traineeship to Colombia
Mishan decided to go for exchange and make his dream come thrue - he is leaving in few days for traineeship to Afghanistan, which is connected with his interest - training, facilitating and HR area

Good luck to all of us and dont forget:"Shut-up and share":D in czech : "Drzte huby a sharujte" :D

Monday, March 24, 2008

SOLUTION 2008, Vienna (Feb 14-17)

Willing to experience something new connected with leadership, I decided to attend SOLUTION 2008 conference in February as delegate.

Going to Vienna, meeting few old friends there and heading for awesome venue, where the conference was just about to start.
Not a typical "get to know" delivered by Tanz die Toleranz (The dance of tolerence) offered the perspective that this conference might be delivered differently than the usual AIESEC way.
In fact, it was designed as a project of
Emersense and AIESEC in Austria.

Solution - Leadership for sustainability gave to 80 participants together with 10 people from learning team a place stop, think, reflect and create.

Built on Theory U - a
concept for personal and social transformation, using all human senses throughout the conference, using learning methods with arts and formal education, challenging our status quo & perspectives with externals of different backgrounds and reputable partner organizations and guests, empowering to act sustainabily - these are just few captured memories of this quite unique conference in AIESEC network!




All of these to build clarity, confidence, capability and courage to contribute to a sustainable future.

If hungry to know more, feel free to contact me (hana.hartosova(at)gmail.com)

Hana =)

Monday, January 14, 2008

NaLDS 2007 - A life-changing experience!



This November I was a delegate at for me one of the most intensive and life changing conferences in AIESEC I have ever been to, to NaLDS in Germany.
We spend 1 amazing week in the beautiful mountain resort in the middle of Germany. We had a great fun with people from many different countries from 3 continents (Europe, Africa and Asia). I remember the great snow fight that spontaneously occurred one day as there was much snow. Surprisingly people who never saw snow in their life before were the ones who where fighting in the most cruel way, throwing others in the snow and other stuff 


We dedicated this week to find something in us, to shape our values, vision. All the people are acting according to their values but sometimes they do not realize it. Then when they find stop and think what they did, they find out it is not the thing they wanted and that they are not really happy and satisfied with their lives.

Therefore I am very thankful that NaLDS gave me this opportunity to stop and think about myself. NaLDS created the environment where I was really honest with myself. I started to realize what is really important in my life for me and what I will do to live like that. It seems really simple to do it and maybe you think it is natural that you know what you want and live like that, but try to sit down for an hour, relax and think of it once again. Do you really know what is important for you - not for your parents, friends, society - in you life? If yes, write to me, I would really like to talk to you.

Next thing NaLDS brought to me was many new friends from all around the Europe. Not people you get to know, but true friends. We were talking together about things I do not usually talk even with my best friend and these people listened to me and tried to understand me. I hope we will meet again soon. At least we plan it.


Last thing I want to write about are AIESEC conferences in general. I heard about the internationalism and diversity in everything connected with AIESEC almost once a week before. But before I left for an international conference, it all seems like something that goes beyond me. Before NaLDS we got the international conference where we talked about AIESEC expansion in Iran. I thought well, that is nice but what the hell I have to do with it. In 3 days I came to Germany and my roommate was a guy who co-initiates the Iran expansion. Then I felt how the world - especially the AIESEC one - is small.

What to tell in the end? GO INTERNATIONAL AND USE IT IN YOUR DAY-TO-DAY REALITY!

PS: If you are interested in NaLDS, read also Zdenek`s post from November 2006, I totally agree with him in what NaLDS is about and what did brought to him.

Monday, December 17, 2007

FallCo 2007 - brutální sranda!


Tak, konečně jsem přišla na to, jak se správně přihlásit na blog a přidat příspěvek! :-)


Doufám, že jste nezapomněli na své zážitky z FallCa, podzimní národní konference AIESEC ČR, kterou organizovalo naše LCčko!! Pro připomenutí - 1.-4.11. se sešlo 300 studentů z ČR v Koutech nad Desnou. Pilo se Staropramen, Coca Cola, jedly se sušenky od Opavia a jogurty od Hollandia... Party byly bouřlivé a žhavé....



Naše OCčko si užilo konferenci po svém - vysílání rádia dobré nálady na frekvenci naších vyšílaček, zpívání všelijakých songů v různých jazycích atd. Chci jim všem ještě jednou moc moc poděkovat! Zejména Helče, Terce a Hudimu!! Jste skvělí!!
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Vaše Alexka!:-)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Rodicak, August 2007



This special event became a tradition in LC Praha. Every summer we organize this for our parents – basically to show them what AIESEC is doing, why their children are staying whole summer in Prague, what are our results, what we are getting out of that ... Probably the most interesting part is meeting of our parents with our trainees – to show them real exapmle of our work.


This meeting is special also b/c of the reason that most of our parents are not fluent in english, so we have to translate it – we can demonstrate our language skills gained through ourmembership in AIESEC, they can see so many nationalities together at one place, ask different questions, share stories about their children and AIESEC life – that its normal to visit home once in 3 months, going to conferences every weekend, meeting friends in whole world leave to different country in few days etc. This event was amazing ! I would like to thank especially to all trainees who joined us and make this event special and unforgottable for our parents.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007


This Natasha from Greece, CEED in LC Praha and this is a beatiful picture from our rainy, cold, full-of-walking and still wonderful 2-day-trip to International Film Festival of Karlovy Vary! So, far it was one of the most interesting experiences I had in your country! Thank you guys!

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Fabosh: cooko-leaving evening



Before Fabosh (LC Praha coach) left for new life track awaiting him after his MC term in Czech Republic, the last night we spent at MC flat with him and cooked a bit - actually, he was the Mexican chef :-)

Fabian, thank You for the year here with us!
Wishing You just the best for the future, man!