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

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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>.

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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.

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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

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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 :)

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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.

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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

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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!!

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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