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This time of year is so weird. I was just reading over Sarah's post, and I have so many of the same feelings. This past year has been so crazy, an immensity of experience, personal change and growth. At the LC retreat last weekend, for the first time in awhile I thought back to SSC 2006, back to the beginning of my term, back to the uncertainty. I remember thinking that I was in no way ready for the task ahead, that I was going to fail, that I had signed up for the wrong gig. I remember thinking about the shoes I was going to be filling, the expectation everyone had, that I had, of what we could do. Then I came back, back to now. How did that all happen? How did we do all the things we did? There are so many. We were able to do it because of the people, the incredible individuals I was lucky enough to work with. This past year's work wasn't the driving force of my experience (although it was insane), it was all the different people I've become close to. My leadership team, the people within the LC, all my friends throughout the network, friends from Cameroon and Morocco, in Madison, Illinois, Kansas, GT, across the country and the globe. I've never had a time in my life when i've been exposed to so many incredibly powerful, intelligent, wonderful people.
That's why this time of year is hard. Some of those people, a lot of those people, are moving on. But that's life, and that AIESEC for sure. My next thought, I look around and see all those still here, the new and the old alike, and I smile. The next generation is here. Newness, freshness and opportunity.

Weird.

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