My IAESTE Internship in Kaiserslautern

My last day in K-Town

My name is Iordanis and I am from Greece. I am studying Civil Engineering and I came in Kaiserslautern through a program called IAESTE to spend three months doing an internship in the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. I should admit that these three months were the most joyous and exciting period of my life.

AIESEC Information Evenings

Every semester students have the great opportunity to know more about AIESEC on our information evenings. In Kaiserslautern we are organizing two of these events, both with the same content:

Wednesday, 3 November

19:00 (7pm)

TU Kaiserslautern

32-349

Thursday, 4 November

19:00 (7pm)

TU Kaiserslautern

32-349

You are cordially invited!

Until then you can explore our website, our Facebook page and Twitter channel.

My Management Internship at Dell

I’m here for my second
AIESEC internship

I think it is safe to say that Slovakia is not one of the best-known countries of the world. It has only 5 Mio. inhabitants and not many people go there. I’m now here for my second time. What’s even more so, I’m here for my second AIESEC internship.

How come? After the end of my studies at the TU Kaiserslautern, I was looking for an opportunity to go abroad again, when I received an email forwarded by the president of the local AIESEC committee. Dell was looking to hire German native speakers and a girl from AIESEC Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, sent a mail around to the people she met on different international AIESEC conferences and asked if someone was interested to come to Bratislava. She knew that I liked my stay in Bratislava so I got that message; read through it and thought: That’s a good idea. I filled up a form and put it in AIESEC’s data base. As I was in it and being an older member, I was already looking for other internships. In the end, Dell responded the quickest. I got accepted and in less than two months I was in Bratislava.

Leadership Experience in Romania

My name is Urs Schweigert and I would very much like to share with you a story of internationalism, leadership, a train crash, an earthquake and a large international conference with swine-flue-ly follow up procedures - the story of my year as national committee vice president for global internships of AIESEC in Romania. But as Mick Jagger already said ‘You can’t always get what you want’, I am going to restrict this entry to a few very brief instances. However I encourage you to approach me via email or in person.

Thank you AIESEC Kaiserslautern for
helping me walk my first steps.

For me, the member committee congress 2008 was probably the hardest election procedure I have gone through. However, after one hour of presentation and questions that followed and two days of waiting, I was very happy to have been given the vote of confidence as one out of two from seven applications. This told me something about Romanians.

Train, train, train

4 days, 10 people

Did you ever facilitate a workshop? Did you train students? Did you pass your knowledge to the participants? Have you been 4 days: full of adrenalin, tired, enthusiastic, loud, silent, funny, severe, …?

I had the chance to experience all these things as a trainer of AIESEC Germany and I never regret it. In October 2008, I participated at a Train the Trainer education from AIESEC Germany and learnt everything for providing trainings. After I trained several workshops and went abroad I didn’t have enough! I participated 5 days at a Train the advanced Trainer conference. We were including the 2 facilitators 10 amazing participants from all over Germany: Würzburg, Münster, Berlin, Bayreuth, Bielefeld, Berlin, Passau and Kaiserslautern!

I'm Canadian

Me at the Tacheles Gallery in Berlin

A professor of mine once mentioned in lecture that if you cannot summarize a topic within a single paragraph, you do not truly understand it. I’m not sure if this statement is true, heck I am not even completely sure which one of my professors told me this. All I know is that I have been staring vacantly at my wall for the last 10 minutes trying to figure out how summarize, condense, or even where to begin describing my experience working in Kaiserslautern, Germany doing a Geotechnical and Soil Mechanical Engineering position I had found through a student run program called IAESTE/AIESEC. All I have established is that I have a really boring looking wall and that pounding my head against my desk does not make ideas flow any better.

Cultural Envoy for Exchange Development

Cata...

My name is Catalina Serban (a.k.a. Cata) from Pitesti, Romania and I came to Kaiserslautern, Germany to meet new people and to work. 
My journey started last year in spring when I decided to come to the grand opening of an organization that I did not know, AIESEC. I joined as a member right after because the presentation fascinated me and my expectations. I found out that AIESEC is an international organization for young people who want to develop personally and professionally.

IASHINGTON International Conference

Everyday on our campus, I see ambling students with half closed eyes, yearning for excitement. This ambiance always makes me depressed and I really needed some change! Change happened: last week, I attended the most exciting conference in my life!

Iaşi - "The city of great loves"

Having never attended an international conference before, I seized this opportunity to challenge myself, to increase my flexibility, to go beyond my comfort zone, to meet interesting people, to improve my English skills, to attend the communication workshop (some content see below) ... and of course to have a lot of fun!!

Trip to Heidelberg

On July 4th 2010 we went to Heidelberg with the trainees who were living in Kaiserslautern at that time. Fortunately all of the trainees participated, so that we had a multicultural group of four trainees and five AIESECers of the local committee Kaiserslautern.

At nine o’clock in the morning we met the trainees Alanna (Canada), Sonia (Tunisia), Mikolaj and Olga (both from Poland) at the main station of Kaiserslautern where the trip began. After one hour of traveling in the train a pigeon hit the electricity supply of the train.

Trip to the Christmas market in Trier

For our Buddy-Newie Project we organized a trainee-trip to the Christmas market in Trier. The trip took place on the 19.12.2009, the coldest day of the year, -18°C!! We were happy that 14 people participated on this excursion, 2 of them were trainees, Flora from Ghana and Roxana from Peru. Before we went to the Christmas market we made a sightseeing tour. Trier is known as the oldest city of Germany and was founded around 2000 years ago by the Romans. Therefore you can visit some old ancient Roman buildings.

International Experience

Fabian from our local committee is doing an internship in Slovakia at Dell. His blog: http://blogs.myspace.com/calaixdelcongelador