The Agora is officially opened!!!

Five minutes ago, the Chair Team welcomed all participants to the first plenary. A Representative of the University gave us some warm words of welcome. Right now the President of AEGEE-Europe, Dragan Stojanovski, is giving his welcome speech. He figured out the most important points of the agenda, e.g. the flagship project 2010/2011. Moreover, Dragan pointed out the importance of AEGEE in times of economic crisis to maintain stability.
But I guess you would like to know what happened till now. After all people somehow managed to find their way to our dormitory, we queued up to register. As the CD feared that the antennae don't pay, you first had to register and pay the fee at the AEGEE-Europe desk and only afterwards the participants were allowed to pick up their welcome package and badge at the local organizer's desk. Unfortunately some antennae didn't know that, as it was newly introduced at this Agora, and waited two hours in the wrong line just to queue up again in the line for AEGEE-Europe- luckily lunch was provided just next to desks.
In the afternoon, there was the possibility to attend the language course and a speed course on "Handle your own Agora" so that the newbies learned what to do with all these ballot papers and where to go. In the evening we enjoyed the opening ceremony with traditional dances, speeches of the organizers and some getting-flag-bag actions, which were all successfully done. Afterwards AEGEE-Magusa's birthday cake was distributed among the participants before we started searching for the dinner hall. The Agora takes place at the Near East University, where 20,000 students study and go to school. Approximately, the campus has a size of 2 sqkm with several buildings and streets. So it is not so easy to find your way here. Therefore, some had problems to find the right place to have dinner, although an oranizer was with them. After an odysee of one hour they finally found their way ;-)
Quickly afterwards we had to jump on the buses to go to the first party of this Agora. After one hour of driving we finally arrived at a fancy club exclusively reserved for MagusAgora participants.... Stay tuned to read more about it soon...

Isabell