Summer Camps 2012 project booklet, AIESEC Simferopol

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Cesar - AIESEC Simferopol Internship 2011

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Act.in.ua: Karolina Kliber, Poland

Hello my sweety:)I send you my short story about Simferopol.My time in AIESEC is one of the most interesting and developing time in my life.Contact with people from all parts of the world changes my way of looking.

Place I’ve chosen for my internship was Simferopol and this was the best decision. People in Poland know only Lviv and as for Crimea it’s not discover area.
I’ve spent amazing time in Simferopol with AIESEC people and many Ukrainian girls and boys. They are very nice, friendly, helpful and gorgeous people. They worried about us and let us feel like one of Ukrainian.

Also I want to say thank you for my wonderful host family - the people who showed me Crimea, extreme racing in forest at 22.00 and other memorable events. When I was leaving they said me "Stay with us forever!". I really love them:)

I’ve met amazing interns form Mexico, Nigeria and from Brazil. We’ve spent great and crazy time together.

It was very interesting to learn Russian and Ukrainian life style, traditions, culture- sometimes totally different, not like in Poland. It was new experience to be in mosque and meet tatarian people. Before i know them only from history books. 

I also recommend everyone to see amazing landscapes in Yalta, Odessa, Kiev and Lviv because I like these cities so much.

It is only part of the things I want to say about my exchange! I miss all AIESEC people from Ukraine and wish every LC to have so nice people as Simferopol has. You are so nice!!!!

This is my history and my memories. Write your own AIESEC story.
If you are wondering to come to Ukraine- don’t think- just do it. There will be an unforgettable days for you!

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Summer Camps: Harshit Jaiswal from India

Be the truth said my internship was a life changing experience for me, it filled me with optimism and got me back my long lost confidence. Be the truth said once again, it was a time of my life where in I was the star, where people not only were fascinated by me but also loved me and yes they cried for me, yes not only 1 2 or 3 children but all about seventy of them, hugging me and crying, all at once, so hard that I just wished, so very intensely that time stopped and I would live in that very space and moment forever.  

I only speak the truth, and to speak it once again, I shall say that when I arrived at the camp, I had some difficulties while interacting with hundreds of children because of the fact they don’t know English very well and so we have some problems with understanding each other. It made me very upset and even I thought it would be the problem of whole my internship. But I had heard awesome stories of people who had already gone for an exchange and I wanted my exchange story to be likewise, an awesome one. 

The truth seemed a bit ugly here, yes it was back then, but among all this what I failed to realise was my expectations where so big that I wasn’t opening up to smaller things. People from back home especially my Exchange manager, Ayushi Gupta  and  VP OGX, Pooja, whom I have sent mails informing my unexpected problems, told me only 2 things. One “your internship will be the way you want it to be” and “if you come back now you’ll regret all your life that you didn’t stay back”. So I decided to stay on and see what was coming and all I did was, I stopped trying to control things and had great working experience and learned the most important lessons of my life. I didn’t only gain what I started in the beginning of this article but the biggest learning I learned is “if you a radical change start embracing the small ones” and yes I realised the power of small.

There’s a lot more of the truth which I want to share especially about the friends I made, like Nickolay helping me all the time especially the early days and his mom feeding great Ukrainian food at my after work days, Zhanna giving me all those spriritual lectures and many others who made feel the worthwhile again.

At the end I was so glad that I did this internship, I really want to thank AIESEC in Simferopol that presented me the challenge and so gave me the strength to overcome the biggest challenges in life.

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Act.in.ua: Cesar from Mexico

My name is Cesar Orlando Embriz R., I am from Mexico City in LC AIESEC ITAM and I wanted to take and internship because I wanted to get out of my comfort zone; I wanted to break my daily routine and meet new people and cultures, know and learn from people that think way too different from me and achieve a more open mind. 

When people from LC AIESEC Simferopol contacted me and explained the project “Act.in.ua” I immediately accepted because I really liked the project: it was in a country far away from Mexico and quite culturally different.  Before taking the internship I almost didn´t know anything about Ukraine; although English was a requirement for the internship I thought that only few people would speak the language. I also thought that people from Ukraine were very serious and cold people; therefore, I started to think that the project wouldn´t be so nice anymore. Actually, some days before arriving in Ukraine I started to be a little afraid. 

When I got to Simferopol in the internship I was amazed that it wasn´t so much trouble communicating because a lot of young people spoke English very well. Also, as a Spanish native speaker I was impressed of how many people wanted to learn to speak Spanish and of how many more already spoke a little of it. I realized that I had a very wrong idea about Ukrainian people because they immediately treated me so nice, they were very warm and friendly people. AIESEC´ers, non AIESEC´ers, people from the “Act.in.ua” project, my internship teammates, my host family; all of them made this internship a life experience, one that I will never forget because I really learned a lot from them and their amazing culture.

During the project I had happy moments, sad moments, I passed through despair, a lot of frustration, anger, had parties, a lot of fun, laughter, learning… In three words: “a lifetime experience”. I met a lot of incredible people and now they are very good friends of mine whom I hope to visit someday soon again! Basically, this internship at Simferopol has been one of the best experiences of my life!!!!!!!!!

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