AIESEC Lucknow through the eyes of a new recruit!

Alina Sayeed, a student of Lucknow University, was selected into AIESEC in September 2011 and after a month in the organization, this is her AIESEC Experience!!
So far that is!

12:47am.Phone flashed.

New message! Neha Avasthi ( an old AIESEC Memebr)

Reads- Hey! I’ve joined AIESEC :D

*yawwwwn*

“AIESEC?? Another NGO ?? Or wait! is it a band!?”

Reply comes- Arre it’s a youth organization spread across the world. Plan to join?

“Ooh! Neh, its okay, I’m fine this way :P Anyway, congratulations & celebrations! :D

 

And so AIESEC was rendered unnoticed by me, actually by myriad others in the similar fashion.

It so happened that one day, I, along with Stuti, was hanging out at Fun Republic when Neha rings up “ Oye! We’re about to start with the GD-PI.Come give it.” Hangs-up. We went all gung-ho about it.

“GD-PI? You mean the kind we see in Roadies?”

“I guess, hope the interviewers are as cute as Ranvijay”

*hi5* “We’ll have a gala time” *wink*

Ahem!! That’s exactly how we got there. Didn’t know what we were getting into! What AIESEC expanded to be! Had never heard the word! But tadaa!! We were right there, seated, rudderless, at the GD conduction area.

Got selected, cracked the personal interview. Phew! Wow! That was one helluva feeling. Felt professional, adult, wanted and ecstatic (as we always were), all of a sudden.

But yet, the idea didn’t sink. A youth organization? Meaning no old people coughing & signing sheets? It’s all over the world! Canada, Australia, Italy! Man! These AIESEC people got to be super rich! Wait! No perks!? Where does the money come from? And hell yeah! Bill Clinton, Junichiro were AIESECers!?

And the questions came rushing down with a vengeance.

Well...the answers didn’t take long to come to fore. Our Local Training Seminar did the job. An organization of mammoth proportion, bringing the world at your doorstep, conducive to networking, honing your managerial skills, providing you a platform to speak, be heard and implement changes. It was like an institution in itself. I termed it a ‘congenial youth democracy’, your very own government. Wow! It’s amazing!

And you know the best part??

Right from meeting literate people, enlightening masses(which now seemed utterly lost & in absolute darkness) about AIESEC, running pillar to post to sell forms & feeling triumphant on selling one after delivering a taxing extempore on AIESEC(our first leverage assessment task) , refurbishing the GD-PI venues, frantically phoning recruits to reach the venue, keeping track of forms sold, to be sold, to letting it loose in jives, shouting our lungs out for role calls, being rowdy hooligans after accomplishments. We did it all!

And you know, it’s just amazing to note that how, in just a span of one month, our, then trivial changes, now seem prominent & pivotal. To work without harness, to feel/be accountable on your tod without being prodded, questioned or dragged. Transformation of an amateur stunt to a sobering feat, AIESEC did it all to us. So, we, the latest addition to AIESEC’s menagerie can vouch, for the record, for AIESEC’s authenticity and grandeur. We are utterly enjoying our respective coveted posts. The change is proliferating. It’s a mass exodus. Say hello to its paraphernalia (read ‘us’).

 

Thank you AIESEC. Cheers!

 

 

Alina is one of over 250 people who have experienced AIESEC in Lucknow and a part of the current 115 members in AIESEC Lucknow!

 

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