Student Union 2009-2010

Scuba Diving, family and The student Union are currently the 3 most important things in my life.
I am the Student Union Vice President for the year 2009-2010. This position makes me preoccupied nearly 24-7 with its issues, problems, opportunities, appointments and meetings.
The Student Union is present to serve, represent, develop and entertain the AUC student body. This is the SU's mission statement ever since it was there. However, this year we had a vision that is quite different than any previous ones.
In our vision we promised for a student union that embraces DIVERSITY, ensures EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION, provides OPTIMUM SERVICES and builds a FOUNDATION OF FUTURE LEADERS.

This vision was what kept me going through the roughest of times in the past 10 months. These 10 months were full of ups and many many downs. We fulfilled our vision to a certin extent in each of the fields mentioned however we as ateam have a feeling that we can always do better. There have been very rough times when we had crisis in certain projects and there was nothing to be done but that helped us become stronger and learn from our experience.

Being part of the student government was something I had thought about ever since I was a freshman and I was determined back then that one day I will be the Student Union President. But this dream was altered after I tried campaigning in the SU Presidential elections for a candidate I had really believed in yet I discovered that elections is a dirty game that is not worth it.

To cut a long story short, I am haunted these days by a feeling of sadness and worry. I do not want my term as the SU Vice President to end; not because I am enjoying the position but because I feel that if I do not promote change and start it now when I am in this position then I will never be able to change anything in this world.