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.

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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.

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„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

For three months (15.09.2009 – 15.12.2009 )  I worked on the “Meeting Diversity” project in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, organizing a series of workshops and trainings for students from three different high schools. The workshops were concentrated on topics like public speaking skills, time management, study and speed reading or conflict resolution techniques. We also had some debates starting from movies approaching issues like cultural diversity or human rights; and two events, one through which the students had the chance to hear and discuss the experiences of young people that studied abroad through the Erasmus Program; the other one was a Simulation of the Council of the European Union where the 27 participants were given the task to discuss and negotiate on the progress Turkey has made so far in order to become a full-right member of the EU. All these activities were meant to offer the students the possibility to practice their English, learn something new and interesting and encourage them to explore all opportunities for education and international competitions. more…

“I’m happy I went in the Czech Republic for 9 months, because it gave me the opportunity to make new friends with whom I went through a lot of experiences, good and bad, but which made us stick together no matter what. Besides that it really helped me define my values and set my priorities.”

Hi, my name is Alina, I’m 24 and I went through the eXchange program in an Educational internship in Czech Republic for 9 months.

Culturally speaking it was amazing, a different language, different people, new job, new city. They are very curios persons and very interested in the Romanian culture, also because of the similarities, both countries are NATO members and members of the European Union which didn’t took in the unique European coin. more…

Unul din motivele pentru care am ales AIESEC a fost chiar experienta exchange-ului,mi s-a parut atractiva si la indrumarea unei prietene care era deja membra AIESEC,m-am inscris si eu.

Initial am facut parte din IT challenge,iar apoi m-am inscris pentru exchange.Am aplicat pentru aproximativ 50 de firme,dintre care majoritatea mi-au spus ca nu au nici o oferta care sa mi se potriveasca. Optasem pentru un internship de tip TN,in Rusia pentru 4 luni,era singurul pentru care indeplineam conditiile necesare,adica cele de limba sau experienta in domeniu.Pana la urma din cauza dificultatilor de calatorie am renuntat la idee,era mult prea greu de ajuns din cauza vizei pentru Moldova si plus de asta mai erau si costurile calatoriei,echivalente cu salariul meu pe cele 4 luni. more…