On 12th of March, Wednesday evening, I walked up to the tables on the first floor to relax after a long lecture. There I found an ad flyer by AIESEC saying "Neschovavej se!", meaning "Don't hide!". It was about traineeships, internships UTB students can have, and it was due in few minutes . So I went there, and took this picture!
There were 7 students who came for the ad, including me, 3 AIESEC members, and 3 trainees from abroad. The presentation was unfortunately in Czech, and I didn't understand most of what's being said. But here's what really sounds cool.
"AIESEC offers you opportunities to improve your foreign language skills, learn foreign culture and get hands-on experience on " says Zdenek, AIESEC member, who started the presentation. "Also you will attend preparation seminar for the internship from AIESEC"
I liked the idea, but it said it was for the 3rd year students and above. "There are four kind of internships/traineeships you can choose," said Lenka, another AIESEC presenter, "Management Traineeships, Technical Traineeships, Developmental Traineeships and Educational Traineeships".
Then, I started feeling drowsy for a few minutes because I didn't understand it. After awhile, Cigdem, a trainee from Turkey spoke about her experience. She said Turkish people didn't drink fizzy water, which was interesting.
Then spoke Eduardo from Columbia -- he's probably learning quite good Czech during his intern, as he answered one student's question in Czech. One thing I found interesting was that Colombians are happier than Czechs -- because of the sunnier weather.
Then a Czech guy, Lukas, talked about his internship experience in Turkey last year, but unfortunately he spoke in Czech so I can't recall anything he said.
Finally, there came Snake (Yes, it's his name) from China, who made a PowerPoint presentation with him to show his cultural shocks. He showed us that he found it hard to eat with spoon and fork, rather than chopsticks.
After the presentation, we discussed about internships. I asked whether I would qualify for an internship, but found out I could if I'm an AIESEC member. Piece of cake! I am going to meet them on Monday, and join them.
Oh, I forgot I'm giving out information to you. If you want to work abroad through AIESEC, you have to decide immediately. The deadline's coming soon!
Places you can find more information are:
www.aiesec.cz/zlin
lenka.stastna@aiesec.net
Here you can check your language skills and see if you can pass the test for internship. Yeah, there is a language test.
vyuka.jipka.cz/online-testy
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