“I have almost two months of AIESEC Exchange experience in Germany. The AIESEC people from here are very friendly and polite and open minded. A part of them started to call me Dracula because they know I am from Romania. I met very motivated people who work hard and with pleasure in doing their projects and this makes me want to get involved, too.”
(Raluca Oborocea, TT, internship in Germany)
“Even if sometimes I miss my family and my friends, I know that what happens now is an unique experience and I want to fully enjoy it. After two months of Columbia life, I can say I learned more about Colombian culture, with all that implies, I met extraordinary people.”
(Lavinia Armasu,, DT, internship in Columbia)
“Exchange program is giving you an incredible exposure to entire world; when you are in an internship in a country as India, that has more than 1000 trainees from all continents and countries, the world looks so small..The good thing of being a trainee in India, and more in Mumbai is that here you are never alone. There are so many trainees than when you come, you don’t need to search for friends, they are already here. If you want multicultural exposure and a challenge of your limits for sure India is the best place to have it.”
I like that I met new people, very friendly and warm, witch sometimes made me forget the longing for home.
AIESEC IASI are a wonderful team and I am happy that I came here. I like the food and architecture, I like Copou Park, but do not understand why the bus goes only until ten o’clock?
It’s beautiful whatever it happens to me and I am glad to learn new things here in Iasi.
It happened… Just as Aqua was telling me at the beginning of my internship… I felt in love with Ghana! It may be the country… and it’s definitely the experience .
I remember my first 2 weeks here… I was feeling like it was the worse choice ever, now I KNOW that it is the best one.
I felt so many things being here: excitement when I first arrived, boredom in the first weeks at work, happiness when visiting so many amazing places, hatred when I was robbed, and homesickness almost every week, gratefulness for getting to know some really great people, fear and disgust for my sleazy neighbor that peaks at me behind his curtains, and the list may go on.
After 3 months in Ghana I know what I want to do with the rest of my life .
How can somebody put in words all the emotion? All the memories? All the feelings? I know I can’t!
AIESEC is a wonderful world It’s not a perfect world, but what is perfection?
For me AIESEC was the space where I learned incredible many things, made new friends, developed skills, gathered strength, became courageous…
GERMANY, UL INTERNATIONAL GERMANY, July 2008- January 2009
UL International GmbH Germany it’s a division of UL International. It’s a company that they main activity is to certificate products for America. For example: if Apple wants to bring a new product on the market it has to have an UL Certificate. The engineers in UL (Germany, Barcelona etc.) test the product and give after that an certificate.
The division in Germany-Isenburg it’s connected with the other divisions in the world, for example Barcelona.
Aiesec gave me the opportunity to work in an international company and it’s an incredible feeling. Everyone there spoke English and I had collages from Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Dominican Republic, Germany. They were all incredible friendly people and always smiling. When you wanted something they were always there for you and they treat you with great respect. It’s amazing to work with people in different part of world, because you can learn all kind of culture things about there countries and you can promote you’re country. Everyone ask me about Romania, how is Transilvania, how is in you’re city, what’s the history of Romania. For example, I had a culture experience with Ivan and I talked with him about Romania and Czech. I learned that Czech people say “ahoj” (hello) and Czech and Slovaks can understand each other even if they are two countries. Beside gaining experience in the work field, this cultural part of an internship. Is incredible.
Internship in numbers and feelings:
- 6 months in Germany. Incredible how fast time is flying
- 10 cities visited in these 6 months: Darmstadt, Berlin, Erbach, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, Munchen, Neu-insburg, Wurzburg
- 9 countries that I have friends and I know that whenever I want to go i’m more than welcome: Egypt, Germany, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Brazil, Belgium, Czech, India
- 6 months in a multinational company “UL International” that I got experience, I worked in business field and I learn how to interact with people
- 3 apartments change in the last 6 months
- Other 40 parties attended and talking with incredible people
- One Aiesec conference that for me was a dream comes true
- 6 months of blogging and other 6300 visitors and 150 articles written
- More than 15 LCM atented in Aiesec Darmstadt
- One speech in public in front of students of Darmstadt University … almost 40 people present
- 3 goodbye parties: Ivan, Sadullah, Me
Internship thanks:
- I want to thank Aiesec Iasi for supporting me in this going abroad and every time that I said that I quit
- I want to thank Aiesec Darmstadt for being every time next to me and supporting me in every stupid thing that I wanted, and doing so many cool things for me. Because they always take me everywhere with them. Understanding every time this phrase: Englishhhhh guy
There is no such thing as good internship or a bad internship, is only the you’re internship and how you wanted to be!
It happened… Just as Aqua was telling me at the beginning of my internship… I felt in love with Ghana! It may be the country… and it’s definitely the experience .
How can somebody put in words all the emotion? All the memories? All the feelings? I know I can’t!
