Mail from our ex-trainee

Hi dear all,
I am Michael from Mainland China, one of trainees in Synergy Project. I have just finished my internship in Poland, which gave me a totally fresh experience in my life as well as treasure skills in AIESEC working. This is my first time in Europe, yet, also the first time that I have to stay abroad for such a long time alone. The Polish culture, landscape of Poland, and the warm-hearted Polish people impressed me a lot, thus I having made a lot of good friends in PolandJ During the internship, I have to design my daily work, try to adjust myself to adapt to the new environment, try to communicate with different kinds of people well, try to come over variety of difficulties that I have not imagined, which really made me become more mature.
Also, during the internship, I went to the church for the first time, learned to cook Polish food for the first time, drank Vodka for the first time… Such an internship will certainly broaden your horizon, give you courage and fresh your life. Therefore, don’t hesitate to try it, and try to improve it, let’s work together and make it better!

Michael Zhu
OGX team leader, Project Manager
AIESEC LC RUC, Mainland of China

Our Trainees

The time goes by and some of our interns have finished their internships but a new have come. Now we have 2 beautiful and smart girls from India: Aditi (in MONAR Gdańsk) and Michelle (in MONAR Łódź).

And how are our ex-trainees? This is a letter I've got from Arjun:

Synergy Poland 2007 is a project that taught me many things. Through this experience of a new culture not only did I come closer to learning that the unity of people is in diversity, but more importantly I saw that the problems faced by people even in different countries do not have geographical divide. And that is what makes us all basically the same. Drug-addiction is a bane on any society, be it European, Asian, African or American, and those who have to deal with its consequences face similar problems.
Through it I learnt to know myself better, made some new friends, and lastly did not lose this opportunity to discover a very beautiful country!! Poland is a very exciting place to be in and I would recommend to all doing an internship there, not to lose this chance to get to know this amazing country and its people better.
Here in India things are going pretty smoothly - I have gotten back to being among and working with Indians. Currently I am working as a Market Analyst for a research firm studying European markets. I'm back, but yes I do miss Poland and the xperience I had there once in a while.
Cheers. Keep in touch...

Arjun Chawla

News from Interns.

From Susan:

Hi, everyone!

I'm Susan from Tianjin, China. After months of preparation work, I finally came to Poland. This is like a dream and I can't believe it is true. Many times I have seen Europe on the movies, and I like the beautiful scene and imagine the fantastic feeling of wondering on the street. And today I did it!

I like Poland, the air is so fresh here, and the sky is sooooo clear! This is very different from Tianjin and I thought maybe I'm in the world, which only exists in novels which has romantic stories of prince and princess. So it is like being in the fantasy world :)

I expect much of the other 59 days in Poland. Also I know there is great challenge just waiting for me. I have strong belief that I will overcome them and do excellent job. I believe I will make progress everyday during this two months in Poland.

Blessing...

Susan

From Michael:

Hi, @ers!

This is Michael from China. And I've just arrived at Poland for my internship. I hate to say it, I've got a bad cold after a long journey. Fortunately, I've received a good reception & entertainment. I wish I could recover soon so than I can show myself, a boy full of pasion, enthusiasm, perserverence & curiosity. I had a wide interest including arts, speach-making, music, movie, poetry and sports. I have only travelled Asia before and this is the first time I have been to Europe. I am glad to say that Poland and her people left me a good first impression. I am ready to make friends with you, to communicate with you, to experience new culture, to introduce my homeland, to show the unique things of myself. I hope and I am sure that the internship would be a good memory in my life :)

Michael

From Arjun:

Dzień dobry AIESEC Poland! It has been a wonderful personal experience with the LC-Warsaw from the word go.

My introduction: Hi! My name is Arjun Chawla and I come from the land of endless flavours and many cultures.

Even then I must say that when I came to Poland I did not know what to expect!!! I knew that the language was difficult. I did have butterflies in my stomach, but I'm relieved to say that the LC-Warsaw has chased them away! I have even found some similarities between the Indian and Polish people: They both seem to have warm people!

If you would like to write something to our inters here are their e-mail adresses:

susansun_aiesec@yahoo.com.cn

zyw_aiesec@yahoo.com.cn

arjun_chawla@hotmail.com

Our first weekend with Interns :)

Hello all of you :)

As I wrote last time our Interns came in first two days of February. On Friday we have met them in our AIESEC office, but Michael and Susan were really tired because of 12 hours flight so they went straight to the apartment where they were staying for weekend.

On Saturday morning we started our training day. First of all short meeting with LCP (lovely Gosia :D) and shrt presentation about Synergy.

Than we had 2 hours meeting with manager of MONAR Association (Masza) you can read more about MONAR at www.monar.org.

Of course short lunch and than our OC member (Asia) made Culture Schock training, it was really interesting and in the end some time for goalsetting for internship :)

From this moment started our fun ;) We were cooking polish dumplings and than went to the party in Club '70.

On Sunday morning we went to MONAR Centers in Lódź and close to Lublin.

This is short info about our weekend :)

Our first interns are comming :)

Tomorrow will be big day for Synergy TEAM 2007 :) There is comming our first intern Arjun Chawla from India :D He will be on the airport at 10.25. You don't even know what a great thing it is, when you can meet people who want to change the world in the same way as you.

And on Friday (9.00) there are comming Susan and Michael from China :) We will spend together all weekend in Warsaw and than guys are going to MONAR Centers in Lublin and Łódź (on Sunday).

On Saturday you will find their first impression about Poland on our blog!!!

Little UPDATE :)

Firstly I'd like to say something more about Tour de Pologne. Here is some info from polish eXchange community:

I hope that you can see something there, but btw you can read there that Synergy is first in race :) Hopefully the rest will be at least as good as first part. I hope that more and more OCPs of polish PBoXs will aplly for this, because it really motivates. And you can fell as a part of Tour de Pologne ;)

Next thing is about our interns: Susan and Michael (China) and Arjun (India), we hope to match one more TN before february, if you are SN and read this, we are waiting for you!!! We can promise great knowledge, experience and fun with Synergy 2007 TEAM :) (Look for some more info on community in www.aiesec.net SYNERGYPROJECT).

One more, interesting thing is that probably in winter holiday we are going for Student's Voluntary, we are planning to do some classes for children, about different cultures. For me sounds great :D

And as an OCP I'd like to say that I'm really proud of all members of my TEAM. I wasn't even dream about so unique and fantastic people!!! Thanks guys, that you are working so hard and effective!!!

Welcome in New Year!

Full of energy after Christmas we are getting to work!
Firstly we would like to proudly present us as the first leaders of Tour de Pologne contest organized by AIESEC in Poland. We applied for kilometers in overall planning process (aka. moving your bike faster) and we got 475 kilometers (500 is maximum!) so now we are in the middle of Poland! ;)
Secondly we will have 4 trainees, from the beginning of february, that will work in Monar.
We are waiting for You guys! ;)