All about my AIESEC Journey

It’s all started back in November 2013 when I got to know about AIESEC from one of senior in University Rahul Singh Manral. He told me about what AIESEC is and how it works. Few days later he introduced me to one of his colleague and Team Leader of outgoing exchange team Rahul Varma. When I met Rahul Varma for the first time I was little excited to know everything. Later after few days I met Rahul again and then I was pretty sure that I will go on a internship to some country. But till that time my parents were little confused about sending their youngest son to a foreign land.

After few week I started with my first semester exams and I was little busy with my exams and after a hectic week full of exams I met Rahul again and I talked to him and by that time I finalised some countries in which I wanted like Germany, Czech Republic and Russia. And then I went home with a confident mind that yes I will go and I have to convince my parents about internship. I left for home on 6^th December and I reached home the same day after 2hr 35mins flight. After few days I talked to my dad about the internship and I made him to talk to Rahul and he managed to convince my dad and I made a Demand Draft of Rs 5000 as he said and went back to Chennai when my holidays finished and that’s how my AIESEC experience started by meeting a random person.

I gave the Demand Draft to Rahul and officially I became an EP (exchange participant) and my AIESEC journey started. I made aiesec.net ID and started looking for project in the countries I wanted to go for internship. After few days in January Rahul told me contact Filibert Dobos. Filibert is from AIESEC Budapest he is Vice President of Incoming Exchange.

 I had interview with him on 4^th March 2014 and it was my first interview of my entire life and that was even international hahahahaha… so I was pretty excited for the interview on one hand but a bit nervous on the other. And finally we had the interview it was good but I was not selected because of some mistakes made by me but I learnt a lot from that interview and Filibert. Filibert is the best foreigner I have ever met in my life, he’s just like my elder brother teaching me things how to present myself in interview and teaching me key points about things which can help me.

But I didn’t got disappointed I learned from my mistakes of interview with Filibert. After few weeks I had interview Bianca for a project called Cultural Mix in AIESEC Pitesti in which I have to teach my native language to young Romanian kids. And I wanted to get selected for this project anyhow and I got selected finally for the project hahahahaha… and when I got mail from Bianca that I got selected for the project I was like fuck yeah!!!