Once again it was time for the annual general assembly of EESTEC. During the general assembly representatives of the branches of EESTEC from all around Europe meet up and discuss the future of EESTEC as an international association. This year we were invited to Bosnia and Herzegovina specifically to the town Banja Luka.
As always we struggled a bid to find successors for the international board of the association. At this point it is starting to become a bad tradition that the people who initially apply for the international board always get rejected. Just like it seems to become mandatory to ask people who step up for the board of the association during Congress to be asked why they didn’t apply before Congress. Despite this back and forth I can happily report that we managed to elect a new board of the association! I wish them all the best in their new mandate.
One of my personal highlights happened after the official stuff was over. On Wednesday evening while we were on our way back from international night, we decided to stop by at a local roundabout and perform a traditional EESTEC dance: The haka.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina there exist dedicated Whatsapp groupchats to inform each other about traffic stops, police radars and similar stuff. Apparently our dance confused some of the locals enough to share a video of us in one of those groupchats warning about the weird activity going on in the middle of Banja Luka. And that’s how we managed to confuse several tens of thousands of people at once.
As always the general assembly itself was quite time consuming and exhausting. In true EESTEC spirit we didn’t let this stop us from having great parties in the evenings, whether it was an international night where we got to try food and drinks from all around Europe or a simple red light, green light party (no this has nothing to do with Squid Game).
What remains after such an event? Amazing (blurry) memories, a clear lack of sleep and a strong desire to do it all over again. Next to this new friendships and a desire to visit them in their countries, whether it’s Porto (Portugal), Thessaloniki (Greece) or Lund (Sweden). I can’t wait to meet everyone again at the next event!
