Riina kogemised

so the story continues…

To take shortly together what had happened so far – I started from the end, wrote down the ending I wanted to use and then during the days that were left for actually having to deliver the speech, I just put down a lot of keywords. And there I was, sitting at the hairdresser’s, hair dyed, drinking some coffee and had just a bunch of bullet points on my paper. It was a bit more than 24 hrs until the speech, less than 2hrs from when I had to leave Tallinn.

Okey, well, if I’m not able to make anything out of keywords, why not try to put down some real sentences and write the whole speech just there and then… or at least some of the more important things I wanted to say. Well, let’s make it happen!

It was exactly

Almost a week ago I sent off my application. The peace that I was hoping for after making the decision never came. Standing in f Past week has been a total roller coaster ride – up & down and all the way around. Even standing in front of you today – I feel quite shaky. But it gets better Can it But can it get better than this?

Seeing all of you here, especially so many of you whom I’ve been working with so closely during past year – I feel so happy. I feel that a great success. and I’m

Looking at myself grown throughout the past year I still see so many new chances it improve. I totally agree with Siim that @ is like a toolbox, it gives you me tools that in your life you I can use either for my own good or build something great with others. I am eager to teach so many o how to use those tools to others so that I wouldn’t have to build only myself.

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I’m sure a lot of you may wonder, why me? How come I’m so certain that I want to do it and make it? I have always loved putting together puzzles – you know – these 1000 pieced ones. Some are even bigger than that. And usually sometimes it is really easy to put some places pieces in place and harder for some of those sky pieces or something. And what do you when you get stuck? Take a look at the box cover, right? How about when you have don’t have the cover? That is how I feel about my own life – my whole life is a big puzzle and so are others’ lives. Life throws opportunities to us all the time and it’s up to us to make sure if it’s part of our picture or someone else’s. So I have looked at this opportunity from each possible side, considered all perspectives & found a conclusion that it is part of my picture!

Have you ever hear a saying “If you can dream it, you can do it”? I believe that imagination is a powerful tool. Can you imagine the next year that during the next year I am leading our LC? Can you imagine your LC meetings lead by me? Can you imagine working close to me in the next EB lead by me? Can you imagine me being the next piece in LC Tallinn’s puzzle?

Well, I can (imagine all that!)

Thank you!

There I was, sitting in the hairdresser’s, writing this stuff on the paper, feeling like it’s all a lot of crap. Okey, time to brush it off my head with all that hair that was cut off and move on. Time to go to Pärnu and no time to think of what will I say tomorrow!

It was a great, sunny, beautiful afternoon and we were discussing all kinds of things in the car with Tarvi and Kadi. Tarvi is a team leader and Kadi will be working in the national board of AIESEC in Estonia. On our way to Pärnu, we managed to have a short stop at Tarvi’s home. It’s in a countryside, far from city life, far from AIESEC, far from everything.

In order to gather some more ideas, I had a long chat with Kadi, just her and I, staying in the sun, listening to the river flowing, birds singing. What more could one soul want from this kind of day :) We discussed a lot of things, but in the end, it all came to one thing – elections that were happening the day after. As I was so doubtful about my speech, I just shared some ideas that I had got so far. The main points came out like this:

• what do we remember from last years’ presidents’ speeches? symbols like birds flying in the sky (Lauri, reminded me also “Flight of the Buffalo” by Belasco & Stayer), toolbox (Siim got one when he was young), buffalo herd (Siim mentioned it and a lot of people thought he had read the book I mentioned few sentences ago), 3 specific points and one of them about comparing yourself with yourself not others (Marjam, she also posted them in AIESEC Tartu office)
• what would I want others to remember from my speech? symbols like puzzle, toolbox and building together with the tools

Umm, how’s that gonna help me now? I got really positive feedback from Kadi and she assured me that I shouldn’t look at it as the end of the world if I’m not able to write my speech down word by word, sentence by sentence to read out before the crowd. It’s absolutely alright to make a spontaneous speech, however, I really need to know the main ideas what I want to talk about and then just go ahead and do it!

Once we got to Pärnu, I once more tried to put the speech theme behind me and focus on other things. Such as talking with a lot of cool people, having dinner together, finding out the agenda for the next day and so on. At one point when we met Deniss, our current president of AIESEC in Estonia and he asked, how are the speeches coming along – I looked at him with quite serious face and said: “I don’t have the speech”.

To be continued…