A story of Chayanis Jirawattananon (Hong) a student from Assumption University

about her AIESEC exchange experience in Ukraine

ji_chayanis@yahoo.com

Why you decided to take AIESEC internship?

What did you expect to get from AIESEC internship?

Because I wanted to have new experience in aboard.I wanted to face the people in another world.

In addition, after I attended the seminar which was organized by AIESEC, it inspired me to go for

internship. All alumni explained their experiences proudly. Thus, I

wanted to be like them. Before I went there , I always thought that I would have

only good experiences, learned different culture and I would have a lot of friends from there.

What did you do in your internship?

In my responsibility, I had to present Thai culture and taught about self-discovering , team management etc. to

high school students.

What was goal of your traineeship? Did you achieve your goal?

I expected to learn their culture, some their language, expand about Thai culture and learn new

experience in aboard. Finally I got them all even more than my

expectations!

What did you get/ learn from

your internship

experience the most ?

The experiences that I got the most were foreigner cultures, team management and dealing with problem. Since while I was internship, I had to work with 2 Chinese girls and 1 Georgian girl and another 3 Georgian

guys from another project. When there were many too people, the problem always happen. Thus, those experiences taught me a lot .

What was your contribution for society or organization you worked in?

As I work as facilitator in high school, I had an opportunity to promote my culture and my country. What I knew is they were many students

didn’t know my country and my culture so my presentation made them surprised and interested. In addition, I was really happy that I gave

them to have a chance to speak English and expand new knowledge to them.

What was the most difficult situation that you faced during your internship

and how did you overcome it?

Language barrier was the most difficult problem that I had ever seen. The most of Ukrainian couldn’t speak English even the airport officers. Thus , it’s very hard to let them

understand us. And another problem was culture differences. We need to learn more each other.

What was the impressive moment you got during your internship?

The first impression was I had good Project Team Leader. She always took care her

interns. And she contributed herself a lot!! She took me to

travel around the town. In addition, 1 week before I

came back to Thailand , I had an opportunity to go another city, and AIESEC(Odessa)

there welcome us warmly like we were same family.

Please give message for the next exchange participants

When you arrive there, what you dreamed before might fail. Thus, don’t give up since you don’t start it yet. Learn as much as you can. It’s only a short time but it will be your memorable experience in your future. Now you may feel that your country

has many drawbacks but believe me, you will be very veryproud in your country , your culture and your nationality.

Cost Spent

32000 for flight ticket I don’t need to pay for the accommodation and 20 days meals.

VISA Process

Totally around 2 weeks to get visa which count from submitting the

application.

What is your feeling toward AIESEC after

your internship?

I can say that I am really really proud to be an AIESECer and after the internship , I felt that I should join AIESEC quicker.

AIESEC is like a part of my life now. I love AIESEC family very much. Even we don’t know each other before , when we say that “ I am AIESECer” we can feel that

we are brothers and sisters.

We have same attitude and are helpful. I used to wonder that why all AIESECerslove AIESEC organization, now I got .