AEGEE Experience Thursday: Jani and LTC

Ker smo si dodobra opomogli od praznovanja božično-novoletnih praznikov, vam želimo predstaviti izkušnjo z LTC (dan prepozno, ampak vseeno 😀). Jani Dugonik, član AEGEE-Maribor, se je udeležil LTC, ki ga je nekaj let nazaj organizirala njegova antena. Preberite, kako je Jani opisal to vrsto dogodka. 🙂

Having recovered from celebrating Christmas and New Year, we want to present you an experience from a Local Training Course (a day late, but nonetheless 😀). Jani Dugonik, a member of AEGEE-Maribor, attended the LTC that was organised by his own antena some years ago. Let’s see what he has to say about this kind of event. 🙂

LTC je dobra priložnost za nove člane in priprave na dogodke. Novi člani lahko vidijo samo strukturo društva, kako deluje in kako se lahko udeležujemo in organiziramo dogodke na lokalni in mednarodni ravni. Meni osebno je najboljša stvar simulacija dogodka, s tem sem se tudi spoznal na mojem prvem LTC. Na simulaciji dogodka se praktično spoznamo s samo organizacijo dogodka, najboljše pri tem pa je, da spoznamo tudi probleme, s katerimi se lahko soočimo pred in na samem dogodku. Seveda pa sam LTC ni tak strogo resen dogodek, saj je druga poanta tega medsebojno druženje in spoznavanje. Čez dan imamo vnaprej določen program, zvečer pa se znamo tudi zabavati (karaoke, namizne igre, party 😀). Ta dogodek tudi služi pripravi na prave dogodke, saj se lahko gre skozi igre/kvize/itd., ki jih bomo imeli na dogodku.

The LTC can be a good opportunity if you are a new member or want to learn how to prepare a project. The new members get to know the structure of the association, how it works and how we organise event on the local and international level. Personally, my favourite thing about an LTC is an event simulation, which I got to know on my first LTC. During an event simulation, we learn about the organisation of an event, but the best part is getting to know the problems we face before or during the event. Nevertheless, the LTC is not such a serious event, it also focuses on interaction between participants and meeting new people. We follow the agenda during the day and we party over the night (karaoke, board games, party 😀). The event also serves as a platform for preparing real events because we prepare games, quizzes etc. that we would use on a real event.