World Without Borders 2009: Cielo from China

The two dreamlike months I spent in the remote country from China, Ukraine is indeed like a dream, so dreamlike that I even don’t see any proof now which could indicate my track in that faraway destination. I still remember clearly the moment I was approached by a girl whom later I knew a Crimean Tatar with a long name as Elzara Adzhimurzaeva, and with whom I made friends with.

My first month was quite fruitful, when I conducted several missions impossible assigned by El’zara with several interns from other countries, say Brazil, Turkey and Taiwan. The tasks were not so difficult but required some teamwork and especially because we were from different countries and had different cultural backgrounds, it also required a lot of mutual and general tolerance.

The main task was to visit various schools and sometimes universities and give presentations of some topics, such as cultures in different countries, leadership, cultural tolerance. These themes seem at the first glance to have no substances but as I started to amplify each point, I actually found many things to articulate. Through the entire period of my constant communication with people from different backgrounds with mine, and I got to know what it meant to be in a society, not university. I also appreciated my great courage I cultivated through this process, which was before I went to Ukraine not so determinate.

All in all WWB is a very fruitful program, and thus I hope the Organizing Committee of this program could also learn to improve it as it’s executed year by year.

Cielo, China
intern in AIESEC Simferopol
project World Without Borders'09