Roxana Negoita was in an international intership in Turkey, in Ankara. She wrote 38 things that she misses about Ankara.

My name is Berche Roxana and I was an exchange participant for 2 months, in 2010, in Izmir, Turkey. During my Development Internship I was part of a local project called Myself My world. My main responsibilities were: organizing learning circles for high school students grades 10-11, encouraging students to speak in English, giving lectures on subjects such as Effective Communication, Time Management, Presentation skills, Leadership and preparing social activities such as art, drama, music, sports related to the previous lectures to make students interested.

You may ask what did exchange mean to me? more…

Why Romania? And why with AIESEC? These were the most asked questions when I told people about my plans to go abroad again. The second question was easy to answer because I worked for 2,5 years in AIESEC. The first one: Well it was coincidence. I just planned to go to an Eastern European country and the only reason why it was Romania was the date of the internship. It was a really nice coincidence.

Arriving in Cluj some people were already waiting for me to pick me up from the airport.

  From the beginning on people took really care of me and were very friendly, so I felt warmly welcome from the beginning of my time in Cluj. Cluj has a lot of international trainees. In the first days I met people from New Zealand, Greece, Ukraine, Poland, Azerbaijan, Puerto Rico, Hongkong, UK, Georgia, Turkey and Moldova. We also had a big global village in Julius Mall to present AIESEC and to get to know each other.

In my internship more…

„Hy, my name is Monica Abrudan, I’m 24 and I’m a programmer. In the spring of 2009 I decided to give my career a little bit of colour by involving in social development projects.
I wanted to do volunteering at the British Red Cross, ONU or UNICEF, but I was refused because of my lack of working experience in the social domain.

Fortunately, AIESEC offered me a chance to participate at social development projects through a Development Internship of 2 months in Egypt. I worked at an NGO, who’s purpose was the development of the cities/villages around Alexandria. One of my main responsibilities were participating at the organizing of this social project.

Besides my professional experience, I gained much more culturally speaking. Egypt was the first country I visited outside Europe. I found a new culture with different traditions, religion, food, family relations, clima and… traffic.
Soon after I returned from this internship I went in another one again through AIESEC and lived another grate experience.

AIESEC offered me the opportunity to try a totally different career in my professional development and I loved it”

Monica Abrudan
AIESEC Cluj-Napoca

My name is Roxi Opriş and I’m in love with doing Exchange… This is more than a simple fact I can relate to AIESEC, it comes down to being a behavior I was looking so much to develop throughout my entire life… doing something that engages you completely emotionally to a level that you can’t even talk about it, but simply transmit it and leave a mark in other people’s lives. This is Exchange to me.

In AIESEC Cluj-Napoca I found out for the 2 years and half spent there that passion has no limits and you can really find a wide range of opportunities to explore it to the full. Mine was still Exchange, but this time I took it to an upper level- in the spring of 2009 I applied and got selected in the National Committee of AIESEC Norway and what I didn’t know at that point was that Roxi was about to start the experience of a life time.

Being in an international MC and coordinating the Exchange area reached new points for me…

I was finally  about to discover what Exchange- the experience that I constantly was talking about in AIESEC- really meant to me. Because, nevertheless, being on a total unfamiliar ground, having completely different expectations and perspectives about how to live life every day, knowing just a couple of people who were dragging me to adjust in an environment that felt so natural to them all the time, not knowing the language and how to get to things in the most simple way as possible eventually pulled the trigger and more…