When I was leaving for Poland I was both scared and excited. I was going to a completely new place and would be living with absolute strangers for 2 months and I had no idea what the future had in store for me. I think that's the beauty and the adventure of it all; not knowing what the future holds for one. However, now that I have ended my journey, all I can say is it was the best adventure of my life.
I was hired as an intern for a project called ‘Enter Your Future’. My job role was to inspire and motivate high school students to be more entrepreneurial and guide them to come out of their comfort zone by helping them to increase their understanding and tolerance towards other ideas, cultures, people and the world around them.
In the course of my internship, I met a lot of new people from so many different cultures, travelled around Poland and Europe, with and without friends. Sometimes with minimal bus fare and no sleeping arrangement sorted. I thought I was different from the people around me, but at the end of the day we all had more similarities than I would have ever imagined. I discovered that no matter how far away I was from home, there were always small things that made me feel at home. Maybe that’s the special factor of an AIESEC internship, wherever you are, you're in touch with AIESECers, and it feels like home. You literally have a home across the globe. Its a community where you effortlessly fit into and there are no boundaries or barriers.
But in the midst of all these discoveries you realize that its time to go back home. And that is the most difficult thing you face because once you have witnessed something so amazing, you can't imagine life without it and all the people who are now family. HENCE it makes me dream bigger, makes me determined to keep striving for more because I have lived something larger than life. So that’s how its a "Life Changing Experience". I've still just seen a tiny bit of the world and I cant wait to explore it all.
Virbhan Saini, 18
Senior Manager at AIESEC Mumbai (Marketing)
Summer intern (GCDP) at Poland, 2013
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