World Without Borders 2009: Ben from Germany

I’m Benjamin, a student of Economics and Informatics in Karlsruhe, Germany, and I joined the World Without Borders project of AIESEC in Simferopol from mid-October to mid-December 2009. My task was to meet different schools in Simferopol and teach students topics like leadership, social responsibility and entrepreneurship. After the second week of my work, schools were closed for three weeks because of swine flu quarantine which meant an involuntary holiday for me. I was using the time to travel around Ukraine and meet Istanbul in Turkey with some of the other interns in Simferopol. After quarantine ended, I restarted working in the project, mainly supported by Agi, another intern from Hungary, who originally was working for the Skills Matter project. We conducted lessons in “School No. 9” and “Linguist School”. Additionally, I held some special lessons in German and went to Nikolaev in order to tell university students about education opportunities and students’ life in Germany. The project ended after eight weeks and I started on my way back to Germany. Finally, it was an unforgettable trip for me. I met a lot of kind people, made friends and learned to love Ukraine. So I want to say thank you and hope to be able to come back soon!

Benjamın Graf, Germany
intern in AIESEC Simferopol
project World Without Borders