Tu'nisian Leadership Developement Seminar 2011 (Tu'LDS 2011)

Tu’LDS 2011 was the last national seminar for this term it was also a great one so we thought that there is no bettre way to show you that than to have testimonies from people who assisted to the conference and contributed to its success as facilitator or as delegate.

First of all we start with Ghassen Dridi, National Information Management and Alumni Relations Manager:

"TuLDS 2011 was my last seminar after years of being an active member of AIESEC in Tunisia. We tried as facilitator team to deliver the right message to our audience composed by AIESEC and non AIESEC members in these special circumstances Tunisia is leaving.
After years of starting the Tunisian Leadership Development Seminar, AIESEC in Tunisia chose the slogan " Act Now" to the 2011 edition.
We hope to see the impact of this seminar and of our whole process on the current youth generation."

We also received a word from the algerian delagation that we wanted to share with you:

"Here comes the end of an amazing adventure, once upon a time an Algerian delegation went to Bizerte to attend the Tunisian Leadership Development Seminar2011.
For the third time we are present at the Tu’LDS, as we exist only since 2008 we didn’t miss any of them and we are so happy to see each time the number of delegates increasing and the welcoming being more friendly.
This was the first international conference for many of our members and newbie’s and that couldn’t be better such an amazing team who did the best job ever to organize such an event, unforgettable moments, excellent participants , and so skilled FACI’s, well organized in an international atmosphere we wonder if it could never last. No better place to discover the leadership, develop our communication skills, being part of a multi cultural team.
Now back home we are all full of energy, motivation and commitment and ready to take our position and leadership roles and start working effectively for a better tomorrow.
Once again congratulations to AIESEC Tunisia , especially LC University for the huge efforts made to make it happen we won a lot even if we are already missing you all we keep thinking about next time we’ll meet.
Get ready is not too far when we think about it :)
Greeting from Algeria"

We also received a testimony form Fatma Toumi, LC Bardo:

"Tu’LDS 2011 wasn’t my first national conference but it was the one which had the deepest impact on me. The sessions during the first 2 days were too long to get all my attention but in the last 2 days, the chair of the conference told us that we will find solutions for two of our partners. And when I said “we” I meant AIESECers as students, we were asked to help the society with our creativity. Isn’t it one of the definitions of a change agent ? we said “AIESEC is people” it means AIESEC is a network of people. But there, in the Tu’LDS, we were building a network of changing agents and some of them had a beautiful vision of our world and they wanted us to follow them. Those leaders will lead this network of changing agents to make the world better. And one of the various way to make all this happen is to attend the Tu’LDS."

Finaly we want to thank everyone who contibuted to make Tu'LDS 2011 such a great seminar and thanks to Ghassen, Fatma and of course the Algerian delagation !

Hope to see all of you In Get Ready 2011 !!

INCREDIBLE INDIA

Mohamed Arby Ghemari, 23 years, shares his AIESEC experience with us.

In June 2010 I boarded a flight to India without knowing what would meet me on the other side. I spent four months interning as a linguistic consultant at Jain Heritage International (JGI), a Cambridge School in Hyderabad.

Working at Jain Heritage International is one of the best working experiences I ever had.
I really enjoyed every single day working with my students who are sociable, cheerful, smart and so Talkative!!

At work, I was feeding my curiosity, my desire to learn, and my analytical skills. My students were so eager to learn about foreign cultures. Having melting pot classrooms helped me too because I also discovered the Korean and Chinese cultures. My Korean students who were living in Hyderabad for a while helped me understand more the Indian Culture.

I'm really Thankful to all the teachers and especially to Principal MAM who welcomed me like I Was a member of JGI's family and who were always ready to help me. My Indian colleagues showed me incredibly warm hospitality by welcoming me into their homes. Their lives were simple, but they were really generous with me, even though I had no way to repay them.
I never thought that I'll have such an amazing experience and unforgettable moments in an incredible country as India. How amazing is the culture and the spirit of these people!! ! !

One of the greatest things in this experience is the fact of meeting other trainees from all over the world and sharing with them my experience. I had such a great time with my flatmates and the other trainees: we had parties every week, trips almost every weekend. I lived in a house with six other international trainees. We became a multicultural family. We learned to compromise when there was conflict, and to support each other when we were having difficulties understanding our new jobs and our new culture. We would trade off cooking our national dishes, which allowed me to practice the skills I learned during my courses at the culinary school for restaurant management in Tunis. I also had the chance to visit a lot of places with my friends, discovering the beauty of India and its breathtaking monuments and landscapes such as Taj Mahal in Agra, Golden Temple in Amritsar, Hawa Mahal in Jaipur. It’s really amazing to see how from a state to another people change. We can find a different culture, a different language and a different religion, but we’re still in the same country “India“.

I still remember myself standing in front of the Taj mahal, so white and so peaceful and for me, being there in front of it, is one of the best experiences I had in my life, because I never thought I would make it that far ; and I made it thanks to AIESEC. I met new people who became really good friends and I discovered such an unbelievable country. So if you have the chance to go to India you’ll see that for once the word “WOW “will make sense.

I have been a member of AIESEC which is an international student leadership organisation for one year. Returning to Tunisia after my internship I decided to help other students have a chance to experience what I did, that they can live the AIESEC experience. I took a position as the Outgoing Exchange Coordinator inside my local Committee. My job is to find international internships for Tunisian students and supervise the team that works with me.

Hyderabad, the city I was living in, was hosting this last summer the International Congress of AIESEC which was awesome specially the Global Village. The fact of meeting more than 600 Delegates from all over the world was simply astonishing. Every local Committee was managing its own booth where we tasted swiss Cheese, Belgium Chocolate and traditional Chinese Biscuits. I think that the International Congress is one of the most important events in the life of an AIESEC member and I think that I was lucky to be there when India was hosting It.

For the future Exchange participants, visiting India would be such an incredible eye opening and also an adventurous experience. It would make you awake of the daring aspects of your personality, the ones you had no idea existed. The Indian’s spirit will make you more open and more sincere, while the different Indian festivals will give you a chance and an excuse to have fun and to do juvenile things you could never do back home.

Like me you’ll get to see a lot of breathtaking, historically significant places situated in unrealistically magnificent landscapes and the joy they give you will be hard to take in. You will feel as if your feet are off the ground. However, in order to truly understand the place, you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone, and eventually you will come to love it.

My time in India helped me to realize that I am passionate about people, new cultures, and working with children who are the future generation of their country. It also opened my eyes to see how things in my own country could change to give our youth a broader view of the world and give them a better chance in a world that is becoming more and more globalized.

I'll have India always in my heart as the first Asian country I have visited.

Hope that my experience will inspire, motivate and encourage other people to live the AIESEC experience which I promise will be unbelievable and incredibly fabulous.

Best Regards

Ghemari Med Arby (TUNISIA)

The LMS 2010

As every year, AIESEC University has organized its "Local Motivation Seminar 2010 - LMS 2010" which is fixed every October after the recruitment campaign to be the first AIESEC conference for the New Members.

This year, the conference's title was "AIESEC University, what else?" which was inspired from a famous coffee brand. This idea was under the conference's topic which was "Advertisements" from where was the sessions' names: "Just do it!! , Where do you want to go today? , Connecting People...".

More than 55 delegates assisted to diversified sessions based especially on the working groups and the interaction between the new members under the coaching of their Facilitators.

Sessions showed that the first impression made by the New Members in the "Welcome Afternoon" and the training courses in the Local Committee was just a small part of their capacities and potential.

The night's sessions was marked by many simultaneous surprising visits

from: the AIESEC's University's Alumnis, Member Committee Board,

members from AIESEC Médina, AIESEC Bardo and AIESEC Carthage. This visits were an occasion to different AIESEC in Tunisia constituents representatives' (Member Committee, Local Committees, Alumnis...) to meet and to share some great moments, just three weeks before the first National Conference for this year "Get Ready 2010".

Finally the LMS 2010 was the ideal opportunity to discover the real potential of the members recruited that announce a crazy year full of challenges and success as we hope !!

First step !!

The 9th October 2010 will be an unforgettable day for the AIESEC University family.

Over 115 new members from different Tunisian universities and with different studies attended "The Welcome Afternoon 2010" which is an event hosted in the FSEGT (Faculté des Sciences Economique et Gestion de Tunis) every year after the recruitement compaign to be the first contact between the new AIESECers and the world of possibilities that reserves AIESEC.

The event was marked by the exceptional presence of the new members, University's Executive Board, old members and Alumnis, it was really a nice finding for the AIESEC University big family.

Other hand, the futur leaders of AIESEC University assisted to some soft sessions that explained what's AIESEC, it's history, its goals, its structre and the opportunities that contains.

They participated also in the discussion cercles where they discussed about the "AIESEC Way" and they shared their point of vue of management and leadership.

New AIESECers have shown a remarkable motivation with their presence and their active participation in the sessions.

"The Welcome Afternoon 2010" was the first step in AIESEC for the recruited elements but just a beggining of an AIESEC eXPerience that we hope incredible and successful for every member.

Notice that the acceptations this year has reached and exceeded the numbers fixed with 137 acceptations that reflect the increase of the student's interest in AIESEC wich is the fruit of many activities and events made in this two last years by AIESEC University for public.

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Welcome to the official blog of AIESEC University in Tunisia !!

We are pleased to announce you that AIESEC University, in its quest to develop new tools of communication with people (AIESECers and Externals) has launched an official blog, being the first Tunisian Local Commity to use this kind of technique.

This blog is created to be a new space for interraction between AIESEC University and its environnement: members, Alumnis, partners and AIESECers from all over the world.

In this blog you'll find news about our activities, our projects, eXchange's up-dates, testimonies and more.

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