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The official newsletter with stories from interns from AIESEC in Ukraine
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AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
IN THIS ISSUE:
International summer in Ukraine
BeachCo 2011
Uzhgorod International
Unforgettable memories and absolutely no regrets
Best summer of my life
I really love my exchange
Spasiba Ukraine
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
There were more than 80 applications for
BeachCo, however only around 50 could
come.
Anyways, those who happened to spend
July 19- 24 in Odessa really enjoyed the
conference!
Delegates arrived by 15:00 and spent the
first day with getting to know each other
and teambuilding. Extensive learning
continued during cultural simulation near
the sea and informal communication.
If you were on BeachCo and didn’t get to
swim after midnight in nice, fresh waters
of the Black sea, you must come back to
Ukraine! Anyways, it was nice to sing
Denza Kuduro with the girl from Mexico.
Best delegate award, Jarren Tam
from Malaysia
The second day will be
remembered for rainy weather
and sessions in our lovely bar.
That day we learned about
training skills, feedback and
broke 3 chairs why playing the
game “During my internship I…”
Hopefully, you also remember BeachCo 2011 for…. dances, parties, international atmosphere, learning, people, sea.. <add own>.
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
Abdullah Çördük from Turkey on Uzhgorod International
On the 6th of August AIESEC Uzhgorod organized a really
cool Festival Uzhgorod Internation that took place in a
club. 11 interns presented their culture to locals of the
city and had fun together. Want to know details?
Be friends with AIESEC Uzhgorod Ukraine on facebook.
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
Now, as my experience
winds down to an end, I look
back on an experience
where I visited Kyiv, Lviv,
Odessa, and numerous small
towns, and I will go home
with new friends,
unforgettable memories, and
absolutely no regrets.
Story from Carson, Canada
ow can I begin to summarize my experience here in Ukraine?
Whatever expectations or preconceptions I came here with were quickly lost as I was taken into a
world beyond anything I could prepare for. While I thought that I would only be in Kyiv for a couple
days before going to my summer camp, I soon found out that I would spend three and a half weeks there before
beginning my work. While this didn’t fit with the plan, I soon became extremely grateful to have this new
opportunity.
By far the greatest part of my internship has been being able to
meet as many great people as I have. In addition to all the great
members of AIESEC Kyiv, I also lived with other interns from over
15 other countries (to be honest, I’ve lost count now). Not a day was
to be wasted, as we explored this great country and began making
memories we would never forget. After a couple days of sharing this
experience together, these people began to feel like old friends.
After two or three weeks together, this friendship would reach new
heights.
To quickly summarize my time in Kyiv: I spent hours walking
around getting lost exploring Kyiv, was around to experience
Constitution Day in Maidan, went to the Tripilske Kolo festival,
helped prepare interns from AIESEC Kyiv to explore the world,
taught at a day camp, participated in a global village, and much,
much, more. Yet, my favourite times were often much simpler;
walking through Mariinsky Park with new friends, sitting in a sushi
restaurant playing games, and the enjoying many evenings in an
apartment that I was first worried about, but which soon became one
of my favourite places in Kyiv.
Soon it was time to head to the
mountains and begin my work. I was lucky enough to work at two different camps.
In the first, I taught to intermediate English-speaking teens, and was able to
teach about public speaking and entrepreneurship. This would turn into a
great experience to share my knowledge and learn more about Ukraine.
In my second camp I was to teach beginner English to younger kids.
This was something that I feared I would to do at some point. How am
I to teach a language when I can’t even speak to the kids? However,
by this point I had been in Ukraine for 6 weeks and had faced
numerous challenges. By the time this camp started, I saw this as a
unique challenge and had no fears. With all I had done already, I
would have no problem figuring this out. In the end, it all worked out,
and it was a great opportunity to learn now only about Ukraine, but
about myself as well.
H
http://www.facebook.com/carson.widynowski
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
Story from Gurashish, India
My 'AIESEC Experience' started with
me taking the bus from the airport to
the train station alone :) Not knowing
the language and how to pronounce
the bus name, i somehow found my
way to the bus and started my journey
towards the train station where my
buddy was waiting for me. After a
couple of days i went to my camp in
Chernivtsi for 3 weeks. Those 3
weeks, I will never be able to forget.
Teaching English to kids, playing with
them and learning a few words of
Ukrainian and Russian from them,
making good friends with the
counselors, what memories! After my
camp got over i had 3 weeks with
'almost' all the interns and members
of LC Kyiv. These 6 weeks in Ukraine
really opened me up. My confidence
level shot up tremendously. I made
lots of friends and had an absolute
blast. This summer was the best
summer of my life. It taught me so
many new things and moreover made
me see life in a completely different
way. I thank AIESEC Kyiv for this
wonderful experience and I hope I can
visit Ukraine sometime again in the
near future :)
http://www.facebook.com/gururulz
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
Story from Aldila, Indonesia
I really love my internship. I learn many things, I have
many new friends, I learned very many cultures from
other countries. Ostrov Robinson, Itaka, Beach
Conference, Global Village are some part of my
internship. That is a good part in my internship. But I also
have a most bad part of this internship. The moment I really hate. That moment is when i
see my friend back to their country, specially my roommate back to his country. I started
my project with him, he taught me everything about his experience here (because he
already started project one month before), and really helped me. I did some good and
bad things with him. But now he left, and I realized that maybe I'll never meet him again
except in facebook or skype. And also another interns here. I started from stranger
(didn't know any intern in here), met with interns, became their friend, and then they left.
It was very bad moment.
One of the best things I get in here is, I have new a brother and a sister. They are kids
from my camp. Although they already left the camp, but they always ask me to hang out
every weekend. International friendship: D
I really love my Exchange.. :D"
There is no word can express what I
feel when I go exchange to Ukraine. I
feel more than amazing, more than
excited, more than perfect.
http://www.facebook.com/aldila.pradhana
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
Story from Vungtheiching, India
"I looked back at the time when my plane landed in Kyiv. As I stepped out of the aircraft, I couldn’t believe that I
was actually alone there, in a foreign land, where I didn’t know anyone in person (maybe a few AIESECers) with
whom I’ve been in touch through mail), I was all alone, feeling so lost, looking around everywhere to find someone
who’d actually know English and would be able to help me find my way to the train station where my buddy would
be waiting for me, the thought did occur to me every now and then -“have I chosen the correct
country?”
And four weeks hence, as I sat down in the waiting
lounge, waiting for the flight to take me back
home, I reminisce on the most amazing time I had
in this beautiful country- Ukraine, the doubts I had
on my mind when I arrived here for the first time
were no more there!
“how I’ll miss this country!” were the last words
that I said to myself as I left. It was like a dream, a
once in a lifetime experience that for once would I
never forget for the rest of my life and of course I
went back home with some precious memories to
be cherished forever! I met a lot of people and
made a lot of friends from all over the world and
most of all, I got to enjoy the warm hospitality of
the Ukrainian people by staying with them and working among them. What surprised me the
most was how selflessly the people tried to make my stay comfortable by making sure that I get
everything I need.
I literally had to say- “no thanks, I am fine” around 5 times a
day as they keep on asking me if I needed anything. Yeah, the
language barriers did exist but that wasn’t a problem when it
comes to sharing a warm and cordial relationship with them.
The whole stay was like an adventure for me, I got to eat
exotic cuisines (though initially, I wasn’t able to digest the food
quite well as I am so used to eating hot and spicy food. In the
first week, I hunted for chilly powders and green chillies
everywhere only to end up with pepper which tasted rather
sweet than being hot but then, I began to like the Ukrainian
food so much especially the salads and meat were my
favorite- I miss them now!), I got to work with special kids and
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
without doubt I could say that they were the loveliest kids I’ve ever seen in my whole life.. I’d
always fondly remember the moment when one of the kids who never talked to me during the
camp just came forward and hugged me lovingly as I was about to leave, the walks around
Kiev, the travelling around in trams and metros, the exciting trip to Odessa and catching a
glimpse of the beautiful black sea, the AIESEC picnics near the river, the list could just go on
and on……
Well, last but not the least, the AIESEC members who were like the guardian angel, a friend
and a guide, always there for us, ready with solutions for every problem, giving us a sense of
security throughout our stay. The experience in Ukraine was incredible!
SPASIBA UKRAINE!!! SPASIBA AIESEC!!
AIESEC in Ukraine
Newsletter for interns, issue 1| Aug 15, 2011
Acknowledgements:
Thank you
AIESEC Uzhgorod for
organizing International
Festival
AIESEC Simferopol & Sevastopol
for hosting many interns who
travel to Crimea
AIESEC Kyiv for receiving many
interns
AIESEC Odessa and especially
Sveta Shevchuk & Viktoriya
Gora for BeachCo and Global
Village (with 20 countries) and
over 90 participants
AIESEC Lviv for hosting Lviv
International
Since July 01 till August 15
Ukraine realized 200 ICX
exchanges!
In the next issue:
Autumn projects
Act.in.Ua
Editor in chief & idea:
Svitlana Kogut
National exchange
development coordinator