Updates/Developments - E+L Event

A lot has taken place at our LC in the past few weeks. The E+L Event took place. Yes it did! And it was successful. On 13th, 14th and 15th July 2011, most of the Aiesecers in Egerton were at Kabarak University main campus in the Auditorium.  We gave the event an AIESEC touch and it turned out into a unique event.

Personally I networked with a lot of guys who have done a lot in the business world. I got an opportunity to invite a couple of keynote speakers who later sent emails to me saying how grateful they were for the opportunity. To say Kabarak the host LC was accommodative is an understatement. These guys were marvelous. Big up to the facilitators who made this event a success.

And there was also this guy who is a CEED in Kabarak all the way from Tanzania(Albany). This guy was/is fabulous. He took the task of being the MC and turned it into an entertaining session. He was every now and then leading guys in roll calls, and at the end of the day he coordinated the cleaning up of the venue. Obviously without someone who had the moves for the roll calls in his head, it would have been hard to keep the delegates entertained. His mastery of the roll call moves left me challenged and I promised myself that I'll atleast master the moves for one complete roll call. I mean, how can he know all the moves for virtually all the Aiesec roll calls and yet here we are claiming we are AIESECers and yet we can't lead the LC into even one roll call.

But come to think of it, in most AIESEC organized events, there tends to be that one person who takes the challenge at hand and turns it into an opportunity to bring the AIESEC touch in. During the 2011 Planning Conference, that person was Jimmy(AIESEC Uganda). During the NATCONF 2011, for me that person was Samora (UON). That's just an interesting feature I've noticed.

One thing that stood up in all the mentors advice is that we need to start saving early if we want to get into entrepreneurship without a huge burden of debt. And of course, it goes without saying; if you are an entrepreneur, there are no limits to your growth. But if you are employed, you are limited to the interests of the owner.

We'll make a follow up to this post soon but for now, I hope I've provided the much need report on the E+L Event2011 that just took place.