Meeting an 'old' friend.

Early of this month, we have long holiday for Easter day here, so I booked my calender to visit my 'old' friends in Slovenia. Her name is Barbara. She worked in Padang back in late 2005-2006 for 4 months and she stayed in my house during that time. She went back to Indonesia after a year and spend 2 months to travel around. She likes Indonesia!

Since I am in Frankfurt now means its easy for me to travel around. So, I let her know that I planned to visit her in Slovenia during Easter holiday. I was so exciting and so does she. Its quite complicated in the beginning since there's no cheap flight to Slovenia but then I decided to flight to Klagenfurt (which is in Austria) and she will picked me there.



Shortly, I went there on April 10 and Barbara picked me in Klagenfurt and my 4 days journey in Slovenis is begun. She took me first to Ljubjana, the Capital of Slovenia. Its a nice city with small river and people were sitting along the river. I also met her Indonesian friend who works there and since he is an architecht, he also explained me about the building, the ancient Rome wall and about the competition for the new national stadion.

Ljubjana without 'j' (Lubjana) means Love. Barbie told me there's a story about a poor poet lives there and he fall in love with a women. They have different family background and she was nearly 40 - or we can said mature. He saw this women in Church but they never really met each other. This young man writes lots of poet for her but no one really cares about him. He also didnt care about himself until he died because of sick. Then now they build a statue to replicate this young man (its located in the top of a building) and the other building in front of this statue there's a potrait of this women. If we see carefully then we can see they are facing each other. There's some other story about this city, one of them is Veronica decides...by Paolo Coelho.




During my stay in Slovenia, we went to Soca, some castle and the Adria sea. The Soca river has beautiful 'emerald' color which is really nice. People enjoy the kayaking and cannoing along the river. The Castles in Slovenia is varied and I think most of them located in hill and even the build it by carving the hill. Amazing! And the Adria sea is the sea without waves. I could say that Slovenia is highly recommend place to visit!

Global Exchange Program AIESEC, wanna go abroad?

what is AIESEC Global Exchange Program (GEP)?
One of the learning that we offer you is exchange (GEP). The exchange form is international internship—we use our network to help you to get the internship in 101 countries; most of the internship gives you salary on monthly basis. GEP will develop you both personally and professionally. By having this program, IT DOESN’T MEAN that AIESEC is a job hunter organization. We are developing youth who becomes our member by having them held a lot of events, seminar and the MOST unique one is EXCHANGE.

there are 4 types of traineeship :

1. Management traineeship, suitable for you who have a background in Economic, HR, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, etc.
2. Technical traineeship, suitable for you who have a background in Engineering, web development or IT.
3. Educational Traineeship, for you who interest in teaching, making syllabus, etc
4. Development traineeship, for you who interest in social issue like poverty, HIV Aids, Education, because you will work for social project or in NGO.

Requirements to join this program :

1. TOEFL min 550 for MT, TT, ET and 520 for DT
2. Max 30 years old

How to join ?

1. Fill Application form
   
2. Submit your CV with current photograph and motivation letter
3. Follow common Induction process
4. Follow Review Board (interview) with Business Person, Academic Person and AIESEC Representative.

What is the different Global Exchange Program with other exchange program ?

1. Experience DIVERSITY in terms of job and work culture, because you have opportunities to have an internship in more than 100 countries
2. AIESEC has Global Partner (DHL, PwC, UBS AG, ABN Amro, etc)
3. Alumni, Strong Networks, Global Perspective and friends all over the world
4. Feel great life changing experience through cultural understanding
5. A variety of leadership opportunities in different areas and have an environment that lets you run with your ideas
   

How could I get the Application Form ?
You can contact me as Vice President of Outgoing Exchange 0809 AIESEC Andalas University through this blog or my mail : vike.vanesha@gmail.com
or you can come to our office :
- AIESEC LC Unand, PKM Building, 2nd Floor, Unand Limau Manis
- AIESEC LC Unand, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan No. 77 Jati, Padang (Fekon Jati)

Do you want to find a summer job or feel life changing experiences?

Holi, the Festival of Colors!!!

Hello,
We just celebrated one of the biggest festival in India, Holi. It's a one day festival and a national holiday all over India. People call it Festival of Colors as on this day, we throw colorful powder to each other amongst friends and family. This is my favorite festival in India, even for me better than Diwali, Festival of Light, that last year was celebrated in October.

Anyway, I had two celebrations for this, first at my office in the evening, then with bunch of AIESECers on the next day. I am not really sure what the story behind this festival, but it just fun! Holi should celebrated all over the world. You can't imagine the happiness environment all around you on this festival. I am glad, again, staying one year, experiencing all these different and interesting festivals in India.

Cheers,
Alfajri Alwis

New Year New Hopes

Happy New Year everyone!!!

include Lunar New Year (so, I am in excuse saying this greeting today hehe). Its been a while after my last post. I couldnt manage to write any post during last month (salute for Al..you are blogger sejati..I read all!).

Well, this month is my 3rd months here. time runs so fast but I can say that I am almost 100% adaptable with all the condition now. The culture gap in term of working style and condition is quite hard in the beginning. But thanks to AIESEC, I have some experience before dealing with underpressure work so it is just the other type of what I learnt during my AIESEC career.

Last week, I had an intercultural training from PwC where we got a view about who is German? why they tend to be very serious and so worry to the outsider? some German history which is very interesting. I will post it later.

Once again happy new year (1 jan, muharram and lunar), wish everyone luck this year!!!

ps. 2009 is ox year means it is our year (for everyone who born in 1985) , wish you get double luck =)

Greetings from Vike ^^

Hey all..

Halo kak irma, bang al, kak cynara, n kak Ira..
First, I wanna say thanks for Kania as my manager who made this blog.
Keep your effort to make Exchange UA especially OGX ^^ become a spotlight in Indonesia.. Hehe

Ok, let me introduce my self.
My name is Vike Vanesha, as a VP OGX 0809 in LC Andalas University, AIESEC in Indonesia.
I am responsible to help the people who want to feel a great and true life changing experience..
whuuw, so wanna go abroad?? contact me soon..!! ^^

Ok, thanks to kak Irma and bang Al who already publish their experiences in this blog..
I know, you have more, its just a some experiences that you had.
but, through your story, all of you will inspire us to feel and make a same story or even more. I believe that..

I will socialize this blog, not only for exchanger, not only for AIESEC member but also to everyone..
Include our trainee who have an internship in UA.
I will invite them to share their experiences here..

Please feel free to publish everything that you want as long as inspire us..
hohoho..


Hopefully, next time is my turn to publish my experience about internship in AIESEC.. ^^

GO EXCHANGE..!!

EXCHANGE 0809
Strong Foundation and Amazing Growth !



cheers
Vike

Do I Look Like American? Chinese?

Not once, twice or three times, but so many times people thought that I was American. Any particular reason? This is the conversation that I had last night with an Indian in a toilet:

him: hei brother! how are you?

me: pretty good, s'up?

him: I am cool, so, are you American?

me: no, I am Indonesian

him: oh, I thought you were American

me: no no, I am Indonesian, why did you you think I am American?

him: you look like American!

Even some trainees thought that I was American at the first time we talked. Then anytime people ask me where do I come from, I will let them to guess. And so far, no one could tell that I am Indonesian, mostly they said either American, Indian or Chinese!!! Maybe it's still ok when people think that I am American (maybe for the way I talk) and Indian (for my face), but Chinese??? Couldn't stop my self rolling on the floor laughing my butt off for this one. =)

Alfajri Alwis

Hallo from Frankfurt, Germany

I wish I will be the first posting the story here, but man goes first (if you meet Al you will now what I mean hehe). Let me introduce my self, my name is Irma Kasri and I just started my internship 3 weeks a go at PricewaterhouseCoopers Frankfurt, Germany. In next one year; I will be working in Global Mobility Department as coordinator of PwC and AIESEC Germany cooperation as well as project assistant for internship and recruitment program.

Frankfurt is a financial city of Germany where you can find a lot of financial institution here include the EU Central Bank. It has around 650.000 inhabitants and quarter of it is foreigner. They are mostly come from Central Europe, Turkey, Spain, Africa, and many more. It is the second international city in Germany after Berlin but the most expensive one. The things that I was impressed during my first month here are the on time and fully organized transportation system, also the honesty of German people. The driver never asked you for the ticket, so you can easily cheat by not buying the ticket but no one do that. It just reminds me to Jakarta’s train user but anyway we can’t compare it. As four season country, we are now in winter where the temperature is around 0 – 10 degrees. It’s hard to adapt especially when there is snow with hard wind, I can feel my body shaking and it’s really hard to make any moves.

Talking about my company and the job that I have now, it’s out of my expectation. I have background in accounting and finance but now I am working in HR although it is also a financial services company. I should thank AIESEC because the experiences in organizing project and HR stuffs mostly I got when I was active in this organization. My manager was also the AIESEC member 12 years a go, so we have so much fun when we share what we do during our AIESEC life. I am lucky to work in this department because every one could speak good English, because some German people although they can speak English they prefer to speak German when you have conversation. As the way to adapt, I just sign in to German class to be able to recognize some words and to make conversation in next few months. The alphabet is similar with Bahasa but they use ‘sch, st’ so much that really hard to pronounce. The funny things are when you meet someone, you should say Guten Morgen (in the morning) or Hallo and when you leave the office or elevator you should say Tschüs or Cao (bye), no matter you know them already or you just meet them for the first time or they are your boss.

Well, I still have a lot of story to share but I will do next time. I hope the other exchanger can share their story here too, so we will have more exchanger in the future.