Post - internship thoughts...

Its been 2 weeks since i got back to Abu Dhabi, i have been reflecting back on my 6 weeks in Poland as part of the PEACE project. The project helped me realize that i enjoying teaching. At some point in the future i would like to take up teaching in some capacity.

I learnt in Slupca about the 3 most important things in life - PEACE, LOVE and SZACUN.

In the first week of the project we found out what PEACE was the acronym for....

People's
Enthusiasm
Acting for
Cultural
Education

The most important part of the project for me was the PEOPLE, without people there would be no project. Everyone involved in the project was important, the OC (Organizing Committee), trainees/interns, students,teachers etc.

Here are the pictures of some of the people who made this project possible.

My team for the first 2 weeks in Srem and Slupca - Angelia and Rii



My team for the 3rd week in Ostrowiec - Demi and Mari




Anita, my host for the first week in Warsaw and also the OCP of the Project



Gosia, my host in Srem



Piotr, my host in Slupca



Mateusz, my host in Ostrowiec



Ms. Kasia, the teachers in charge of us at the school in Srem



Paulina and Agnieszka, the other English teachers in Srem





The Headmaster and , the teacher in charge at the school in Slupca




With Marta, the teacher in charge at the school in Ostrowiec

Almost everyone from the Project




Heres a picture of everyone at the Amnesty International office in Warsaw

Adventure comes to an end...

Its been a couple of weeks since my last entry, a lot has changed since.

I've been back in Abu Dhabi for a week now. Spent most of my time recovering from 6 weeks of traveling,teaching, partying and a lot more.

Due to me being unable to extend my visa in Poland, i had to leave the project 2 weeks before the end and come back. It was hard to leave things unfinished but i guess it had to be done.

I had a great time in the 6 weeks that i was in Poland. More about my thoughts on the PEACE Project in my next post...

AIESEC Wroclaw UE Local Committee Conference

Soon after i found out that i was selected for the PEACE project, i decided that i would make it to the Spring Local Committee Conference of AIESEC Wroclaw UE which was going to be held in March. The people from AIESEC Wroclaw UE are close to me as we spent a lot of time together during my last internship.

As the date got closer i was not sure if i would make it to the conference but when i reached Ostrowiec i asked the co ordinator at the school if i could get a day off and go to Wroclaw and she agreed to it. Looking back now, i am glad she did it.

After a 7 hour bus trip from Ostrowiec to Wroclaw, i headed to Lewin Klodzki with my friend Monika and some other AIESECers. It was nice to meet some of the older members from the LC and catch up with them.

A couple hours before the Opening Plenary of the conference, the LCPs (Lukasz and Magda) asked me to be Chair at the conference as the person who was supposed to be Chair could not make it. I said yes immediately as it was a chance for me to have a an impact on a new generation of AIESECers.

Me being the Chair of the conference was a surprise to everyone and it was nice to see their faces when it was announced at opening plenary.

The conference was a lot of fun. In addition being Chair i also facilitated a few sessions, one of them was a team game, the other was about the various opportunities available in AIESEC (CEED, MC, Internship). I spoke about my internship in Wroclaw and what it was like to be on internship.

The new members seemed enthusiastic and eager to learn. There were quite a few of them interested in going on internship and asked me a lot of questions about what it was like and about other opportunities to travel abroad.

The parties were a lot of fun, the second night was Topalki/boat race and my team came second :D

Talking to all the members and hanging out with them, I felt like i never left Wroclaw 5 months ago...

I am really glad that i made the trip to Wroclaw like i said during the conference, "Life is full of surprises".

The conference was a fitting end to my AIESEC career as i will be applying for Alumni status once i am back in UAE.

I spent the next couple of days after the conference at my friends Major's (Peter) apartment recovering. I missed being in Wroclaw, i really fell in love with the city when i lived there last year.

Here are some of the pictures from the conference...

The rest of the pictures from the conference can be seen @ http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2646147&id=28118637&l=cd2ec81937

Here is the song of the conference

Stay tuned for more about my adventures in Poland...

Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski

The first town that i travelled to after switch was Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski. My new group as i mentioned earlier was Mari and Demi. After my experience in the past 2 weeks i was really looking forward to the school in Ostrowiec.

It was a lot different from what i expected it to be....The school did not organise any after school events for us and it was a bit boring so i made use of the time to catch up on sleep that i missed in the past 3 weeks...

In addition to teaching at a high school we also had to teach for a couple hours in the afternoon at a language school for 3 of the days since they were partners of the project. It was not as bad as i thought it would be.

The response from the students was kinda the same like the previous schools that i was in. This time i learnt more about China and Georgia. Demi's presentation about China was really cool and i think the students liked it a lot.

The language school was a bit different as we did not have to present our countries ( to our relief) but just talk to the students and interact with them. I decided to play some games with the students and also to get to know them better. It worked pretty well and i think the students liked it.

On wednesday was the birthday of my host, Mateuz so there was a party and i got to meet his friends and also hang out with the students from the school. We went to a bowling place, it was fun. We ended up having a after party also...

I also got to know Demi and Mari better and spend some time with them.

In the early hours of Friday morning i traveled to Wroclaw for the Local Committee Conference of AIESEC Wroclaw UE, more on that in my next post.

Here are some pictures from Ostrowiec...

Next post about the AIESEC Wroclaw UE Local Committee Conference....

Switch

The past weekend, all the 8 groups from the PEACE Project met up in Warsaw again after 2 weeks of travelling all around Poland. The reason we met up was to share our experiences from the past 2 weeks and also to be put in new groups for the rest

of the project.

It was nice to hear about the experiences of the other groups.I felt that we (Rii,Lia and me) had a better experience with the high schools as compared to the others. It made me appreaciate much more the people (students and teachers ) i met both in Srem and Slupca.

It was also a learning experience for me as i could learn from others how to deal with the situations that they were faced with.

The parties were also fun and it was great to catch up with all the other interns from the project.

I was put in new group, with Mari (Georgia) and Demi (China). For the next 3 weeks we will be travelling to Ostrowiec, Bilgoraj and Opole Lubanskie.

Next post about Ostrowiec