April | 30th Candidate Board

Now that April is coming to an end the time has come for our first monthly update as CB. As is the case with most stories, the beginning is filled with excitement but also a lot of stress. Our period as CB started on April 4^th, when we finally knew if we had been selected as candidates and for what position. Although at that stage we were not complete, by now we finally have filled all positions, with an amazing group of people if I may so myself. For the time being we are keeping ourselves busy writing our policy plan, getting used to our new functions and attending the events organized by our great committees. The workload is definitely making itself evident, but we are facing it with a great deal of enthusiasm for the upcoming months.

I hope to see you all in the Helix room or at one of our events!!

My first monthly update! Let’s get started. First and foremost, I got accepted as candidate-secretary of the 30th board of SA Helix (yes, I say the title in full, just to let it sink in). I’m of course super excited for the upcoming year, and I hope our current board isn’t too anxious to hand over custody of Karel at the end of their board year. To prepare myself for my board position, I have been training with Johanne, secretary of the 28th board.

On top of our CB life, our committees were still working hard. For me, that’s the excursion committee. We’ve been dotting our i’s and crossing our t’s in preparation for this year’s excursion to Budapest, for which I really cannot wait :). I’m really happy we got to meet our participants during our info night at van Bommel! I liked being able to get myself familiar with the faces we’ll be seeing a lot more of in May. That of course hasn’t been all we’ve done this past month. We had the lovely pirate COP, where I’m pretty sure some people made out with a skull… nonetheless, it was a blast. Our second committee GA took place, which I believe went smoothly, and we ended this month with the illuminated neon party organised by the Randwyck committee. I loved seeing everyone shine, quite literally, while dancing their hearts off. I’m curious to see what May will bring, so on to the next one!

Hi everyone reading this! It has already been a few weeks since I became Candidate Vice-president and a lot has already happened. Firstly, my schedule literally blew up with meetings, events, training, etc. I am still kind of getting used to it but I predict that in a few weeks I should be fine. So what have I been up to so far. I started off with a crash course on Helix, where we as Candidate Board got all the information on Helix, from history and things that are currently happening to obligations, preparations etc. This really gave an image of what being in the Board actually is like and I really enjoyed that. After that, my training for Vice-president started where I learned about all the ins and outs of the position, which motivated me even more for next year! On top of that, I got to help during the experience day, where high schoolers came to the helix room where first the current Vice-president Kim gave a small speech about Helix and talked to them, but after that it was my turn to give a speech for these people, explain Helix and answer any questions they had. This was such an amazing insight into the roles of the Vice-president and I enjoyed it very much. I’m not only Candidate Vice-president, but also Candidate Head of Activities, which I am also super excited for! My training for Head of Activities hasn’t started as of now, but that will also commence soon. I know that I still have a lot to learn but I already can’t wait for next year! 🙂

My first monthly update as Candidate Board Member is very exciting! First of all, even though our CB was not complete at first, I was already very thrilled to start working with Javi, Laura and Burak. With the addition of Dion and Amadiez, we are now a complete Candidate Board and I know for a fact that we are going to be working hard together. We received a very intense crash course on what it meant to be a board member, we started writing our policy plan and we are slowly getting used to the crazy board year that is still ahead of us.  I was selected to become the next Candidate Head of External Affairs and to succeed Anna in her mission to find sponsors. Although my training has not formally started, I already started establishing a list of potential companies that would financially support us to have an amazing and fruitful Lustrum year. I was also busy with excursion, which I am very much looking forward to as we have been preparing for it for a few months now. We will probably see each other in the helix room, hungover from the night before and spilling tea!