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− | Hey everybody!
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− | I'm here with a new story. A story of the aftermath of events that occurred @Whistler, March this year.
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− | To see what I'm talking about, if you do not know about them yet, here's the link:
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− | http://translations.ted.org/wiki/TEDxKitchen_@TEDActive2014
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− | So, not to talk too much about it, Whistler and Active left me wanting to do more. Travel more, learn more, participate more.
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− | Since then I've become an LC, the Croatian OTP community managed to go over 1000 translations, and I reviewed, approved and translated a whole lot. I traveled to some cool places, went to a few amazing festivals and met a lot of exciting and new people. I've started learning a lot of new stuff, and I really enjoy the drive and motivation I get from everything I experience.
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− | But one other thing that intrigued me after Active was TEDx. Until I got my head and finances together, a few of the events I could've attended went by, so I've started searching for an event that I could attend while I'm traveling. I was planning one "big" trip until the end of the year, and wanted to include a TEDx in the itinerary. My initial plan was to go to Frankfurt, and as far as I could see, there was no events in the area. So I decided to postpone my plan of visiting a TEDx and started planning to visit my friend in Frankfurt. But the friend that I wanted to stay with notifies me in the last minute, as I was booking my trip, that he cannot accommodate me. So, I was disappointed, you can imagine. But everything happens for a reason, as you'll see later on.
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− | I browsed around and I landed on a low cost airlines site that flies from my town to London. They had a discount, and for a super cheap price I buy myself a ticket to London, and I plan the trip for the week of my birthday.
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− | While checking out stuff to do, things to see, I realize that I actually did not look for a TEDx event in the area. I go to the TEDx site. without much hope, and I see that on October 11th a certain TEDxBrixton is planned. And October 11th is actually the day of my birthday. I start grinning broadly, clicking around to get a ticket, and then I see "Volunteer".
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− | And without thinking twice I click on it.
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− | Weeks went by with no answer from the TEDx team, and it was quite a while to the event, but I wanted confirmation. I dig out an e-mail, I send a Facebook message and after a while I receive info that I'm on the list of volunteers, and I'll get more details later.
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− | So the months flew by and I landed London. It was late Monday, the event was planned for Saturday, and a final meeting will be held on Friday, when the speaker dinner will be too.
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− | I've spent the next few days exploring London and getting blisters on my feet. And then Friday came. I had some stuff planned before I go to Brixton, see the venue and meet the team in person. I was really excited, and had no idea how the venue will look like, apart from the fact that it's a school. I came about half an hour early, after a walk through the neighborhood. A neighborhood that had a really bad rep back in the day, but was booming with positive and outgoing people when I was walking around. And then I walked up to the Evelyn Grace Academy. A monumental building, that was designed by a really famous architect. I entered through a guarded front gate and wandered around, confused. Knowing that probably no one is there yet.
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− | But the receptionist told me that some guys are delivering stuff for the event, I should check if anybody from TEDx was there. There was no body, but there was a whole bunch of equipment that needed to be carried in. So I jumped in and lend a hand
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