John Eikosidekas on the Greatness of AEGEE’s European Level

John Eikosidekas is one of the Agora Patra organisers. He is originally from the big land of USA but resides in Greece while his dream is to reside in Denmark in the future. In this article you can get to know more about John’s history and his interest in the European Level of AEGEE.

Story of Nordic Stars Subcommie Maria Arends

I am Maria from AEGEE-Groningen, and my story may be a bit different from others, and as someone told me lately, this may be because ‘I am from the Netherlands’. People that know me also know that this is not something I usually state in my introduction as I am not the one that gets all dressed up in orange on Queen’s Day, but I figured this person was right.

Anita Kalmane’s story

I won’t be original – also my AEGEE story started with a friend suggesting a Summer University (SU).

 

I was reluctant at first, but then he kept sending and sending me all those SU descriptions, and one really caught my eye because of the topic – it was about medieval times which I was a big fan of back then. So I applied and got selected for a trip with a bunch of unknown people. In the end I went for another SU, but it was an SU after all…

Mayri’s AEGEE story

I don’t know if my ’becoming a member’ story is common or not for AEGEEans, but that’s how it happened to me at least. In spring 2010 I was looking for an opportunity to go abroad. I barely knew anyone outside of Estonia, I had never travelled alone and I had never flewn, but I really wanted to go somewhere. On a regular check to Tartu’s events calendar I found the Summer Universities infohour. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend, but I got so interested that I just searched for the information on my own. I became a member of AEGEE-Tartu and got accepted to a Language Summer University in Palermo. Until the SU I was not really interested in AEGEE-Tartu at all, my dream was only to go to abroad.

 

Iveta Arnīte and her AEGEE story…

I guess my story started from my University. I had an intercultural communication lesson that seemed really interesting studies for me and I started to be curious about tourism and traveling, although my field of studies wasn`t exactly tourism. Then came the time when I had to write my bachelor thesis and chose about what to write. And I felt that it has to be something related with intenational communication. I told about this to one of my friends. It turned out that was and still is a member of the organization called AEGEE-Ogre, and he invited me to visit his AEGEE friends..

Julia Lauren on her AEGEE journey so far

I joined AEGEE about 4,5 years ago. It was early spring 2008 and I started to plan my summer holiday. I wanted to travel somewhere but not alone. Then I received an e-mail about Summer Universities organized by different AEGEE-locals. So I decided to apply for different some in Germany and I got accepted to one. That summer I spent two amazing weeks in Germany with people around Europe and there was no more turning back. After such a great experience I wanted more!

 

After that summer I’ve been in many events around Europe. What makes it easy is to travel with AEGEE is that you can travel alone and end up spending time with new, interesting people around Europe. And what is perfect in AEGEE, is that even if you live far away from your European friends you always meet them in other events and you can visit them.