AEGEE-Passau 20th birthday celebration was a great way how to spend the weekend, even if it reminded a bit of ex Regional Meetings with so many Germans around :) Nevertheless, they were nice enough to speak in English most of the time and hold all the workshops and speeches in English so also few amount of foreigners would understand it.
One of the biggest highlights of the event was not only Gala Ball, which is a separate story, but workshop by Marco Kalbusch, the founder of AEGEE-Passau who is currently working for United Nations in South Africa. His workshop made me remember all the reason why we are in AEGEE and why we are so passionate about it. There are so many things we are benefiting from, just we do not realize them anymore and they seem so natural for us - like speaking with people from other countries on daily basis, managing large-scale projects (yes, even more than one at the same time) and hopping from one city to other all over Europe. If all AEGEE workshops would be like the one Marco did, I have no doubts that AEGEE would double its amount of members and increase the amount of those members who are actively contributing to the association, not just benefiting from it!
-Anita Kalmane,AEGEE-Europe Vice-President&Network Director
"We were very happy with our event. After all, it was the first European event for quite some time in Passau (since the YNY Training course in 2008, actually, I think) and a big challenge for the organizing team, since it was their first big event to organize.
Everything went great and we all spent a great weekend together. We especially once again came to value the cosyness of Passau, because since it is so small, the participants could walk everywhere, from the local hosts' places (because everybody was hosted privately) to the place where we workshops took place to the Redoute, the local theater, were we had our Gala evening.
We were very happy that Anita and Manos from the CD were there and very moved by Manos's speech during the Gala evening. We also had a guest that especially came from Africa, Marco Kalbusch, the founder of our antenna, who lead a very much appreciated workshop about how you can benefit from your AEGEE work in your future life. During the afternoon, participants also especially liked the dance-workshop, where they could prepare for the evening, and the Voodoo-workshop lead by Frida, about how AEGEE has changed us.
The best part of the weekend of course was the Gala evening. The president of our university visited, we had some speeches, we appointed our new honorary members Stefan Hauk and Markus Schönherr, we had some great show acts by AEGEE-München, our "big brother", great food, and of course, partyyy! It was a perfect evening with a wonderful atmosphere.
The next day they Bavarian sausage breakfast was the end of a awesome weekend.
I think the great thing about this event was that it brought together former AEGEE members, people from AEGEE Passau and people from all over Europe to celebrate together and share something. We got a lot of nice comments about our event and we can say that we have been really proud that we were able to host it."
-Kathrin Renner, AEGEE Passau e.V.Coordinator The Golden Twenties-
"Oh my God, what a fantastic night!! So many charming, beautiful and absolutely stunning girls - and a perfectly organized evening. Chapeau!" (Georg Rehberger - AEGEE München)
"Thanks a lot to AEGEE Passau for your great Gala event! It was so so great!!!!" (Stefanie Kraut - AEGEE Heidelberg)
"Dear freinds of AEGEE Passau, it really was a great anniversary weekend. Whoever will organize the 25-years-anniversairy will have a really hard time to live up to this. We had a lot of fun! Thank you and see you in 5 years!" (Marco Kalbusch, Ex-AEGEE Passau)
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