{"id":3685,"date":"2012-02-17T19:50:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2014-11-03T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:57:17","slug":"how-i-fell-in-love-with-aegee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/02\/17\/how-i-fell-in-love-with-aegee\/","title":{"rendered":"How I fell in love with AEGEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember while I was back in college I used to search for a volunteer organisation where I could use my energy and creativity<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/02\/17\/how-i-fell-in-love-with-aegee\/olympus-digital-camera-14\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3891\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/111-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/111.jpg 1712w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a> to help others. Every time I tried to google any kind of non-governmental organization (NGO) I left my computer sad and unsatisfied, nothing in Armenia caught my attention or made me enthusiastic. So I quit trying to get engaged with charity and concentrated on my studies. But last summer I met my friend Mary, who had just got back from Italy. And let me tell you, the girl was ecstatic. I had a feeling that she was on Red Bull 24\/7, but after a while I realised that it was the famous \u201cAEGEE spirit\u201d. My friend told me so many funny stories and her narration was so vivid and captivating that I thought for a second that I myself had been part of that summer university.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/02\/17\/how-i-fell-in-love-with-aegee\/olympus-digital-camera-16\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3893\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3893\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/18-1024x697.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Little did I know that once you hear about AEGEE you get hooked. AEGEE spirit is contagious, that\u2019s why I suffered from severe insomnia until I applied to become a member. When I met the members of AEGEE-Yerevan, I realised at once that these are the guys that I want to be friends with. Not long ago we celebrated our first anniversary, but it seems like AEGEE-Yerevan has been around forever. That is something inexplicable. How is it possible that a group of enthusiastic local AEGEEans made the organisation so popular here? Actually it\u2019s pretty simple. If you meet our members you will instantly feel the positive energy and strength, easy-going attitude and self confidence, crazy sense of humor and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>At first I had a lot of unanswered questions about AEGEE history, its structure and the possabilities the organization gives\u00a0that disappeared after a Local Training Course. However, after watching a documentary about AEGEE and after\u00a0listening to more experienced members\u00a0my mind finally came to rest.\u00a0I have so many ideas and plans and I can\u2019t wait to participate in my first Summer University that I heard so much about.<\/p>\n<p><em>Written by Anna Barikyan, AEGEE-Yerevan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I remember while I was back in college I used to search for a volunteer organisation where I could use my energy and creativity to help others. Every time I tried to google any kind of non-governmental organization (NGO) I left my computer sad and unsatisfied, nothing in Armenia caught my attention or made me enthusiastic. So I quit trying&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/02\/17\/how-i-fell-in-love-with-aegee\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26967,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/26967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}