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

My Internship Experience at TU Kaiserslautern

Last March, I was sitting on a plane from my home country Peru, incredibly nervous and excited ready to embark on an AIESEC internship in Kaiserslautern, Germany. When I arrived at the train station in Kaiserslautern, I saw six guys on the platform holding up an AIESEC banner. I felt so nervous as they were all men!