A especial message from our DEAR OCP: Rafa!

Beloved team!

How are you doing?

Did you already get back to normal life? How normal is your life after what you experienced? Isn´t it funny how as we come back to routine, in some moments, like when taking a break, when checking facebook, replying e-mails or just laying down in bed for (ciesta), we catch ourselves remembering the great moments we´ve spent? And for a few seconds we have the amazing opportunity to go back to the ILC… suddenly we realize the smile on our face and this great feeling fulfills us … This moments are unique, feel and enjoy them because we are the only ones that can feel them to the most, since we are the ones who created them!

These moments we remember now, are the ones we´ll remember forever, occasions we are going to comment, laugh, learn, share! And most of all, these are the moments that make our lives greater, that gives us stories to tell. Be sure that you will be in the memory and stories of more than 250 young achievers from 35 countries, more than 50 external guests, more than 20 organizations, hotel staff and most important, in the memory of AIESEC in Spain, remembered as the ones responsible for making a dream come true!

Our team experience was amazing! We were a very diverse group, therefore we had different expectations, points of views, and ways to face the challenges the learning was intense. I believe that our diversity is what made us renowned as an awesome OC, not only in what we delivered but in the image we transmitted! This is one of the details that made this a remarkable experience.

I would like to thank my beloved OC for the memories that I´ll carry for life, the lessons I´ll practice from now on, the friendship that keeps the expectations that we might get together again in the future. I would like to congratulate you to have the braveness to embark in this adventure, the courage to face the challenges, the awareness to analyze work of yours and of your group, the dignity to put stakeholders objectives before yours and most of all, having the maturity to comprehend that the satisfaction of our delegates is, beyond all other achievements, our main achievement.

So, a page has been turned in each of our lives. Don't forget that what has been written can´t be erased but can be redden a million times, and now it´s input for the rest of the story you are writing. I really hope that the pages the ILC filled in your life helped you to know better your abilities, competences, weakness, strengths, limits. I hope that this page has a great importance in your book, and that this story may have helped you on the next stories you will write! Most of all I hope that every single story has a happy ending!

So, let´s keep in touch! From your OCP, I leave my doors opened for you to knock! You can reach me at anytime for any reason, and I hope you do! Hope I can write your name, once again, in another page of my book some when, somewhere!

Best regards,

Rafael Lopes
OCP ILC 2008