Beginnings...

...are the hardest.

Or at least that is what an old (Croatian?) proverb says. On the other side, if one searches for the proverb on-line, there are actually not that many results to look into and find the source of that proverb. After little time of pondering over it, one may ask if it is a proverb at all. Yet, it still sounds as familiar as a cliché we have already embraced for a fact of life.

Something close to the mentioned familiarity is what I have come to experience upon my arrival to WENA LDS 2008 in Bamberg/Heiligenstadt (Germany) after meeting the rest of the guys and girls comprising, what was later that evening named the PARTY BEAVERS HomeGroup.

As a HomeGroup we spent 5 days together, from morning to evening, in constant interactions, open discussions, intense reflections, and real challenges. We all connected from the start in our common goal to get the absolute maximum out of the whole conference. Our discussions extended at times long after the formal minutes had elapsed. We met even outside the regular sessions time to continue the amazing work we were achieving. We were pushed by our faci Kristian and by ourselves to contemplate on the issue of Leadership in our lives and to stretch ourselves outside our comfort zones. All this was done through different tasks our HomeGroup went through, that Gabby already mentioned in the 1st post. Those 5 days in Germany created an immense impact in our lives.

Before going back to our LC realities, and our normal everyday lives, we created a Pact: we would continue developing what has been created during WENA LDS even after the conference ends, for the connection that had been made extended far beyond the scope of the original 5 days deep onto the paths of friendship. We decided to keep our friendship alive and use it to make a needed change in our communities. We decided to follow the true AIESEC path and by developing ourselves today into the Leaders of tomorrow make a positive impact in society!

We Are the 10 PARTY BEAVERS:

• Gabby

• Peter

• Martine Mikaéla
  

• Ariel
  

• Espen

• Alexandra

• Herbert

• Anna

• Tandy

• Kristian - faci ;)
  

In the following weeks and months we will be posting on the walls of this place, building the dam we started at WENA LDS 2008.

ABOUT the project The Eye To The World:
The PARTY BEAVERS will use this blog to create a platform for the constant communication and exchange of eXPerience, LC realities and Ideas between ourselves and our LCs. Our goal here is to update each other on:

1. Personal eXPerience - after WENA LDS
   
2. LC reality - events in each of our LCs
   
3. Ideas - ways of putting international connections to practice
   

+ Gossip, off course ;)

Each of us shall update the blog on these points every 4 weeks. This will ensure for the news from each PARTY BEAVER and each LC to be posted in a rather dispersed yet concentrated enough time period.
In time, we will hopefully learn a great deal about the 3 aforementioned points and thereafter build further successful international projects on them.

Our LC Members are encouraged to read the blog, follow what is happening in each of the LCs, and give their own suggestions. However, they may communicate with other PARTY BEAVERS only through this blog, by posting Comments.

Let the sharing begin!