IB convention

This year is a special one for Vilnius lyceum IB students because exactly twenty years have passed since IB program was founded in our school. It's something we should be proud of and celebrate together with other IB schools.

Luckily, there's an annual event called IB convention, first organized by Kaunas Jesuit gymnasium years ago, which was a perfect opportunity to address pride-worthy anniversary. Our coordinators gathered all IB course a month or even more before the event to start an early organization. At first, it was hard to generate concrete ideas, especially as none of us imagined what the event should look like. It was much easier when people started to concentrate on particular aspects, such as food, CAS activities, speakers, overnight stay and, of course, welcoming, which I eventually joined as well. My task was mainly to organize the smooth proceeding of minor tasks such as present-, decoration-, arrow- and poster-making, as well as to find people willing to welcome the arriving students from various schools and distribute already made presents into particular classes. To be honest, it might not seem like it was a hard work to do, but I was actually kind of stressed with all the responsibility. Nevertheless, I enjoyed to be a part of such meaningful and, in my opinion, professional event. The final atmosphere was uplifted and the feeling of pride could be sensed in each one of those who contributed to the organization.

Also, I forgot to mention probably the most responsibility-requiring assignment which was to collect participant fee from participants. Luckily, most of the leading teachers had already took care of collecting the fee from their students and the only thing I had to do was to intermediate between them and our coordinator.

Overall, this experience taught me to not be afraid of responsibilities and trust myself. Moreover, to effectively divide major tasks into smaller ones and appoint them to several people in order for it to be completed on time. These kind of events simply require a little bit of individual effort from each person and a lot of group work.