World Without Borders 2009: Kokos from Greece

Hello my lovely Crimean friends ;)

So right now i am in Greece and i decided to write you some thoughts and share with you some of my internship experience! Well by the time that arrived in Simfer i was a bit concerned on what to expect cause i really had no clue about Crimea !! The reception was the best tho and from the fisrt days it seemed that the people were the best, very warm & friendly and very good at parties (something that matters a lot for a stupid Greek intern). I still laugh with all the culture shocks that i had there either with ukranian culture either with the culture of my very good friends and roomates from Brazil, Turkey, China and Taiwan!! Of course i also had the best birthday party there and sometimes i wish i could remember it all, lol.. You people were the best guides for travelling around Crimea and whole Ukraine and always been helpfull with crazy interns that wanted to go on a trip at 11pm at night :D

I really miss each one of the people that i met and believe that all of you are very special with huge potential.. The opportunity that you gave me to become a facilitator in the Local Induction Conference in Sevastopol was a unique opportunity as well and sharing my exchange experience with some of the Local Committee people helped me realize that they are so many people who dare to risk and explore new cultures and are full of dreams for their lives :) I still have all the sugarcubes that i got from you at the end of the L.I.C and will keep them forever , hehe!

The project tho was the thing that we people call it AIESEC Lifechanging experience!!! Really words are very poor to describe such an experience cause that project helped set some new goals for my life, challenged my worldview and of course made me a lot more communicative and helped me understand and respect a lot of different cultures! The feeling that we had after delivering an effective presentation where children and students were talking with us and sharing their thoughts adn dreams was a really sublime feeling and hard to describe! You feel like a little hero when a child comes to you after a presentations and tells you that from now on he will think the things that we discussed in the presentation and i hope all of you can feel that sometime!

Well that is for now! I will write you soon again cause now i have to do a looooot of stuff for my Local Committee here in Greece! I really miss each one of you!

You are always welcomed n Greece! Kisses from sunny Greece ! :D

Kostantinos Kampiotis, Greece
intern in AIESEC Simferopol
project World Without Borders'09