Let me introduce you first to the HR responsible in my project, Alina Buzgar. She's from Romania. She came to India 2 years ago just like me now as an intern. Now she's officially employed in the company. She's an amazing person, very helpful, and a great guide for Bangalore and India in general.
So Alina asked me and Eduardo to volunteer in a giving a session she is giving for one of the teams in TCS. It was a session talking about cultures and cultural differences and it was more in form of a game. Alina was the one conducting the session of course, Eduardo took the role of the judge, and I was the score keeper.
When I entered the office everyone was very quite and concentrating in their work. I took the impression that this game would be taken very seriously by the employees. The session started with a few movies on cultural differences and then the games began. Those quite employees turned into 10 year old children filled with enthusiasm and energy to win!! The amount of energy in that office was amazing that I even feared we might loose control upon them!! Yet it went very well and everyone was great!!
It was a great session that everyone enjoyed!! I personally got to learn from it that the differences in cultures is overwhelming. Even the similarities are. You can even find differences in team cultures within the same company. It is great learning how to cope with all this and blend in each culture whenever necessary.
Mee3o over and out ;)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Ringtones
I know it's been a week now since my last post. But here I am back again with a couple of interesting posts.
One day I was on a public bus coming back from work and going to a place called Shivaji Nagar. So I was sitting in the bus minding my own business and suddenly I hear a phone ringing. It wasn't a normal ring tone. It was a ringtone of Mohamed Hamaky - 2a7la 7aga feeky. I was very surprised to hear that in a local bus.
So I said that could be like one in a million chance I could hear such a thing again. But how wrong I was!! I think it was last Thursday that I was sitting in the company library which is of course a very quite place. There was a guy sitting next to me and his phone started ringing. To my absolute surprise the guy's ringtone was Nancy 3agram - Ya tabtab wa 2adall3!! I was like, "What the hell!! In the TCS library!!" I was about to talk to the guy to ask him where he got his ringtone, yet he left to answer the phone and didn't come back. I'll make sure next time I see him I would ask him so!!
Lets see which ringtone I would hear next!! :D
One day I was on a public bus coming back from work and going to a place called Shivaji Nagar. So I was sitting in the bus minding my own business and suddenly I hear a phone ringing. It wasn't a normal ring tone. It was a ringtone of Mohamed Hamaky - 2a7la 7aga feeky. I was very surprised to hear that in a local bus.
So I said that could be like one in a million chance I could hear such a thing again. But how wrong I was!! I think it was last Thursday that I was sitting in the company library which is of course a very quite place. There was a guy sitting next to me and his phone started ringing. To my absolute surprise the guy's ringtone was Nancy 3agram - Ya tabtab wa 2adall3!! I was like, "What the hell!! In the TCS library!!" I was about to talk to the guy to ask him where he got his ringtone, yet he left to answer the phone and didn't come back. I'll make sure next time I see him I would ask him so!!
Lets see which ringtone I would hear next!! :D
Friday, May 9, 2008
Coorg -> Mysore -> Bangalore
This may turn out to be a long post yet I'll try to make it as short as it can be and mention the main points!! Hope you enjoy anyway :D
1st of May was off for everyone. As it was a Thursday, I took Friday off as well and had one long weekend!! But it was for a very good reason.
Me, Eduardo, and two girls from Mumbai (Slavka & Marika) all planned a trip to 3 places. Coorg, Mysore and Bangalore sight seeing. The plan was to travel to Coorg on Thursday and stay there for 2 nights. Then on Saturday we would go to Mysore for sight seeing and go back to Bangalore on the same day. Sunday was dedicated for Bangalore sight seeing.
There was this whole story of trying to find a way to go on this tour. There were two options. Either we go by transportation or rent a car for 3 days. Of course we went with a rented car. We ended up renting a Tata Indica with a driver. If I told you to guess the drivers name, what would you say? Most probably you are right. The driver's name was Ahmed ;)
We started our journey at around 9 am heading to Coorg through Mysore. I must mention that the roads between the cities were quite nice!! It was a smooth road and with an amazing amount of greenery on the both sides of it. We stopped for lunch in Mysore.
Then we agreed on visiting some Tibetan settlement on the way to Coorg. This settlement contains the biggest population of Tibetans outside the Tibet. The main attraction there is the Golden Temple. It is located in a monastery where young Tibetans go for education mainly. From inside it has 3 golden statues of Buddha idols. It's an amazing temple from inside and the amount of detail and color is overwhelming.
After finishing with that we decided we should head to our hotel in Coorg. It's actually called a "Home Stay" not hotel. It's name was Honey Valley. It's a personal recommendation for anyone who visits Coorg. Great people, great food, good rooms, and amaaaazing scenery. Maybe the only hotel that you can find in the latest edition of Lonely Planet talking about Coorg.
Anywho, the driver took the directions from the hotel guy and we were off. That's where our road got a little longer than it should be!! The driver was stopping every 5 to 10 mins asking for directions. He was going on the right way, yet I guess he was making sure. They said it's only 75 Kms to the hotel. It felt like 200 Kms to me. At some point of time in the road the driver asked for the directions from a stoned guy who was smoking some s**t. That's when I started to feel a little bit worried!
We stopped at a small village called Kakabe to call the hotel again to "make sure" of the road, duuuuuhh!! We didn't have any mobile network coverage so we had to use a payed phone. I'm mentioning this for one simple reason. I had some hard time calling the hotel. There were a lot of people from the village standing there and one of them approached me and asked me where I'm from. When I told him I was from Egypt the guy had a big smile on his face!! It turns out that he traveled to some gulf countries for work before and he actually speaks Arabic, yet with a more Gulf ascent. So he helped me out with calling the home stay and everything was settled.
So we finally reached at the meeting point at around 9:30 pm where the home stay people agreed on. They were waiting for us in a Jeep. That was because the home stay is actually up hill and the way to it is very rocky. Only a Jeep can make it up there. It was about 3.5 Km up hill. Having such a ride in a night time added a loooot to the excitement of it :D We arrived, went to our rooms to place our bags and had ourselves a nice veg dinner. Almost directly we went to bed aiming for an interesting day ahead.
We woke up in the morning on the sound of some Indian children, mainly girls. We discovered later on that there was a summer camp!! Anyway, we walk up to an amazing surrounding of the home stay. It was all mountains covered with green forests.
Being in such a place the main thing you can do is tracking!! So we asked the hotel for where to go and they gave us this booklet with all the routs we can take to see the surroundings. The main point was to go to this junction which from there you start taking the path you want. All was mentioned on the map in the booklet. There were 3 types of paths. (1) Short, which take around 30 - 45 mins round trip (2) Medium, which takes 4 - 5 hours (3) Long, which basically takes all day long. We decided to take a Medium one, come back for lunch, then go for a short one.
Here's where the action starts :D We chose a path that leads to the top of one of the waterfalls there. We were trying to follow the instructions stated in the booklet as much as we can. I think at some point of time we took the wrong turn ;) That wasn't the twist though. We just decided to go on. Then we reached this forest a somewhat moist ground. There the girls started noticing that there are some "worms" climbing on their shoes. They were a little bit freaked out. Then one of those "worms" managed to sneak up Slavka's leg and she started to feel that something is itching. It turned to be that those "worms" bite and actually suck your blood. This the point where they got really freaked out and all started searching our shoes and socks for those creatures. I found like 5 or 6 of them. They decided not to go on with this path and just head back to the home stay.
We went for lunch and decided to go for the short path after that. The short path was to bottom of the waterfall! So as we were walking by, one of the girls saw one of those "worms". They directly decided to head back. I personally didn't want such a creature to spoil my vacation. So me and Eduardo decided to go on. We reached to the bottom of the waterfalls. Ok, it wasn't that impressive but we actually reached somewhere :D
On our way back I noticed there were a couple of "worms" on my shoe so I removed them and went along. I felt something itching in my leg but I didn't bother. By chance I was looking up my pants and found one of those on my leg and sucking on my blood. I removed it and went on. The bleeding didn't really stop so I cleaned the wound and put a bandage on it.
When we went back to the home stay I asked the owner what are those creatures. He said they were called Leeches. When they bite they pose no threat in terms of transmitting any diseases or anything but they have an anti-clotting enzyme which leads to continuous bleeding which stops after a while.
Freaky, huh?! :D It was a great experience tracking though. I'll defiantly go back to that place one day but with proper tracking gear!!
I guess this post is too long already so let me make the rest as short as possible!!
When we went to Mysore we saw:
- St. Philomena's Church: we actually witnessed a wedding there
- Mysore Palace: a greeeeat palace with a lot of amazing things inside yet it wasn't allowed to take pictures :(
We arrived Saturday night at around 9 pm. Next day we took a Bangalore city tour and we saw:
- Vidhana Soudha: a great building that houses the State Legislature and of course wasn't allowed to go in.
- ISKON Temple: it's a Hindus temple for the devotees of the Hindus god Krishna. We attended some sort of mass they were doing in the temple. It's newly designed so there's no real historical significance for the temple. One thing I found rather strange. They were collecting donations for feeding and educating homeless children. I personally will donate to something like that no matter where I am. To my surprise there was a minimum to the donation! It was about $30 which is more than 1000 Rs. How can anyone put a minimum for donations?! Of course I didn't have that kind of money on me and even if I did I wasn't prepared to pay that much.
- Bull Temple
- Lal Bagh Park: a very nice garden to walk in, very spacious and couples and families can enjoy their time very peacefully.
- The Only Place: I'm sure you know about that by now :D
That was my last weekend ladies and gentlemen. I know I said too much. I'm very thankful if you reached this far in the post :D
Me3o over and out!!
1st of May was off for everyone. As it was a Thursday, I took Friday off as well and had one long weekend!! But it was for a very good reason.
Me, Eduardo, and two girls from Mumbai (Slavka & Marika) all planned a trip to 3 places. Coorg, Mysore and Bangalore sight seeing. The plan was to travel to Coorg on Thursday and stay there for 2 nights. Then on Saturday we would go to Mysore for sight seeing and go back to Bangalore on the same day. Sunday was dedicated for Bangalore sight seeing.
There was this whole story of trying to find a way to go on this tour. There were two options. Either we go by transportation or rent a car for 3 days. Of course we went with a rented car. We ended up renting a Tata Indica with a driver. If I told you to guess the drivers name, what would you say? Most probably you are right. The driver's name was Ahmed ;)
We started our journey at around 9 am heading to Coorg through Mysore. I must mention that the roads between the cities were quite nice!! It was a smooth road and with an amazing amount of greenery on the both sides of it. We stopped for lunch in Mysore.
Then we agreed on visiting some Tibetan settlement on the way to Coorg. This settlement contains the biggest population of Tibetans outside the Tibet. The main attraction there is the Golden Temple. It is located in a monastery where young Tibetans go for education mainly. From inside it has 3 golden statues of Buddha idols. It's an amazing temple from inside and the amount of detail and color is overwhelming.
After finishing with that we decided we should head to our hotel in Coorg. It's actually called a "Home Stay" not hotel. It's name was Honey Valley. It's a personal recommendation for anyone who visits Coorg. Great people, great food, good rooms, and amaaaazing scenery. Maybe the only hotel that you can find in the latest edition of Lonely Planet talking about Coorg.
Anywho, the driver took the directions from the hotel guy and we were off. That's where our road got a little longer than it should be!! The driver was stopping every 5 to 10 mins asking for directions. He was going on the right way, yet I guess he was making sure. They said it's only 75 Kms to the hotel. It felt like 200 Kms to me. At some point of time in the road the driver asked for the directions from a stoned guy who was smoking some s**t. That's when I started to feel a little bit worried!
We stopped at a small village called Kakabe to call the hotel again to "make sure" of the road, duuuuuhh!! We didn't have any mobile network coverage so we had to use a payed phone. I'm mentioning this for one simple reason. I had some hard time calling the hotel. There were a lot of people from the village standing there and one of them approached me and asked me where I'm from. When I told him I was from Egypt the guy had a big smile on his face!! It turns out that he traveled to some gulf countries for work before and he actually speaks Arabic, yet with a more Gulf ascent. So he helped me out with calling the home stay and everything was settled.
So we finally reached at the meeting point at around 9:30 pm where the home stay people agreed on. They were waiting for us in a Jeep. That was because the home stay is actually up hill and the way to it is very rocky. Only a Jeep can make it up there. It was about 3.5 Km up hill. Having such a ride in a night time added a loooot to the excitement of it :D We arrived, went to our rooms to place our bags and had ourselves a nice veg dinner. Almost directly we went to bed aiming for an interesting day ahead.
We woke up in the morning on the sound of some Indian children, mainly girls. We discovered later on that there was a summer camp!! Anyway, we walk up to an amazing surrounding of the home stay. It was all mountains covered with green forests.
Being in such a place the main thing you can do is tracking!! So we asked the hotel for where to go and they gave us this booklet with all the routs we can take to see the surroundings. The main point was to go to this junction which from there you start taking the path you want. All was mentioned on the map in the booklet. There were 3 types of paths. (1) Short, which take around 30 - 45 mins round trip (2) Medium, which takes 4 - 5 hours (3) Long, which basically takes all day long. We decided to take a Medium one, come back for lunch, then go for a short one.
Here's where the action starts :D We chose a path that leads to the top of one of the waterfalls there. We were trying to follow the instructions stated in the booklet as much as we can. I think at some point of time we took the wrong turn ;) That wasn't the twist though. We just decided to go on. Then we reached this forest a somewhat moist ground. There the girls started noticing that there are some "worms" climbing on their shoes. They were a little bit freaked out. Then one of those "worms" managed to sneak up Slavka's leg and she started to feel that something is itching. It turned to be that those "worms" bite and actually suck your blood. This the point where they got really freaked out and all started searching our shoes and socks for those creatures. I found like 5 or 6 of them. They decided not to go on with this path and just head back to the home stay.
We went for lunch and decided to go for the short path after that. The short path was to bottom of the waterfall! So as we were walking by, one of the girls saw one of those "worms". They directly decided to head back. I personally didn't want such a creature to spoil my vacation. So me and Eduardo decided to go on. We reached to the bottom of the waterfalls. Ok, it wasn't that impressive but we actually reached somewhere :D
On our way back I noticed there were a couple of "worms" on my shoe so I removed them and went along. I felt something itching in my leg but I didn't bother. By chance I was looking up my pants and found one of those on my leg and sucking on my blood. I removed it and went on. The bleeding didn't really stop so I cleaned the wound and put a bandage on it.
When we went back to the home stay I asked the owner what are those creatures. He said they were called Leeches. When they bite they pose no threat in terms of transmitting any diseases or anything but they have an anti-clotting enzyme which leads to continuous bleeding which stops after a while.
Freaky, huh?! :D It was a great experience tracking though. I'll defiantly go back to that place one day but with proper tracking gear!!
I guess this post is too long already so let me make the rest as short as possible!!
When we went to Mysore we saw:
- St. Philomena's Church: we actually witnessed a wedding there
- Mysore Palace: a greeeeat palace with a lot of amazing things inside yet it wasn't allowed to take pictures :(
We arrived Saturday night at around 9 pm. Next day we took a Bangalore city tour and we saw:
- Vidhana Soudha: a great building that houses the State Legislature and of course wasn't allowed to go in.
- ISKON Temple: it's a Hindus temple for the devotees of the Hindus god Krishna. We attended some sort of mass they were doing in the temple. It's newly designed so there's no real historical significance for the temple. One thing I found rather strange. They were collecting donations for feeding and educating homeless children. I personally will donate to something like that no matter where I am. To my surprise there was a minimum to the donation! It was about $30 which is more than 1000 Rs. How can anyone put a minimum for donations?! Of course I didn't have that kind of money on me and even if I did I wasn't prepared to pay that much.
- Bull Temple
- Lal Bagh Park: a very nice garden to walk in, very spacious and couples and families can enjoy their time very peacefully.
- The Only Place: I'm sure you know about that by now :D
That was my last weekend ladies and gentlemen. I know I said too much. I'm very thankful if you reached this far in the post :D
Me3o over and out!!
Horn O.K. Please!!
If you ever wonder what are the things that exist only in India and nowhere else, I'll give you one of them!! At least I think it exists only in India.
"Horn O.K. Please" The first time I saw this sign when I was in Mumbai I really didn't get it. When I looked around more I found it on on the back of every auto rickshaw and truck in Mumbai. This simply means that it's very ok to honk the horn and they actually put a please in it. It's like they are asking you "politely" to honk your horn. I thought Mumbai was noisy. Not until I came to Bangalore.
There are two main differences in this case. Bangalore's traffic jam is worse than Mumbai and the sign is different. In Bangalore the sign is "Sound O.K Horn" which I have no idea how did they come out with that.
I thought for a while that Cairo is a noisy city because of all the horns. But here they placed a new standard for sound pollution. The bus drivers are crazy. They can honk the horn for like 10-30 seconds non stop just to pass somewhere. The rickshaw drivers have this amazingly annoying horn.
In my opinion, even if you drive in Egypt, you still need some guts to drive here. Regardless of the fact that the steering wheel is on the right and all the U turns are on the right as well, you need to have a lot of either guts or stupidity to drive here.
Honking the horn is infectious I would assume. So if I start driving here, when I go back home I'll be cursed all day long in Cairo streets!!
But what the hek!! This is what makes Bangalore the city it is. I'm not gonna hate the whole city just for that :D There's a lot to see and enjoy. There's a lot to India to see an enjoy. I'll be seeing as much as I can of it all.
Mee3o over and out!!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Things that bring me back!!
Being in a foreign country sometimes you witness, hear, or even smell things that just takes you for a second back to your country. It could be the simplest of things but it makes it happen!!
For me in India 3 things so far make this happen to me:
- Sometimes I wake up in a weekend to the sound of a guy selling something in the street. Regardless of what he is selling or what he is saying, which of course I don't understand, but that same scene happens in Egypt. At the same time every Egyptian guy who ever soled something in the street flashed in my mind. The guy who sells tomatoes, onions, watermelon, and the one that sells honey!!
- While I was waiting for the bus to go back home from in front of my office something reeeeally made me feel that I'm standing in the streets of Cairo. There was this small bus, known to us as mini and micro buses, and there was a guy inside calling out for the station that the bus was going to. I swear it's almost the same way they say it in Egypt (Ramseees!! Ramseeeeeeees!! :D). Again regardless of the language, the way it was being said and the whole scene took me right back!! I'll try to catch it on video once.
- Last and defiantly not least is the prayers call. I used to hear it all the time from my room back in Egypt. I hear it from my room here as well as the Mosque is like 5 mins away from my apartment. I feel that I'm in my actual room back home!!
Amazing, huh? All you need to do in my opinion is for you to just concentrate and look around you and you'll find those things that just bring you back home. Even if it lasts for seconds, it's an amazing feeling. You feel your surroundings have changed in a flash second yet everything was so clear.
Still didn't tell you about my last weekend. Maybe next weekend I will :D
Me3o over and out!!
For me in India 3 things so far make this happen to me:
- Sometimes I wake up in a weekend to the sound of a guy selling something in the street. Regardless of what he is selling or what he is saying, which of course I don't understand, but that same scene happens in Egypt. At the same time every Egyptian guy who ever soled something in the street flashed in my mind. The guy who sells tomatoes, onions, watermelon, and the one that sells honey!!
- While I was waiting for the bus to go back home from in front of my office something reeeeally made me feel that I'm standing in the streets of Cairo. There was this small bus, known to us as mini and micro buses, and there was a guy inside calling out for the station that the bus was going to. I swear it's almost the same way they say it in Egypt (Ramseees!! Ramseeeeeeees!! :D). Again regardless of the language, the way it was being said and the whole scene took me right back!! I'll try to catch it on video once.
- Last and defiantly not least is the prayers call. I used to hear it all the time from my room back in Egypt. I hear it from my room here as well as the Mosque is like 5 mins away from my apartment. I feel that I'm in my actual room back home!!
Amazing, huh? All you need to do in my opinion is for you to just concentrate and look around you and you'll find those things that just bring you back home. Even if it lasts for seconds, it's an amazing feeling. You feel your surroundings have changed in a flash second yet everything was so clear.
Still didn't tell you about my last weekend. Maybe next weekend I will :D
Me3o over and out!!
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The Only Place!!
As most of you may know that cows in India are sacred. They keep them walking in streets very normally with the people and cars. It's very normal to walk and beside by like 1 feet is a cow walking with you. Of course you can't bother it or harm it in anyway. They usually eat from the garbage from the streets or basically anything they find eatable.
The point of all this is that if you want to buy beef you won't find it!! In a normal restaurant you'll find a Veg menu and Non-Veg. The Non-Veg is either eggs, chicken, fish, or mutton (lamp meat). NO BEEF!! Coming from a country that is very normal to eat beef almost daily was quite hard at the beginning accepting this harsh reality!
We were invited to a girls birthday in a restaurant called RedBox while I still was in Mumbai. I went with another Egyptian guy and a Moroccan and 3 guys from Brazil. All beef eating countries. So I was going through the menu normally looking for something to eat expecting at least a new way to make chicken till I heard one of the guys saying "They have beef!!". We were all like "WHAT?!". That came after being 3 weeks in India eating chicken. It was like a shock for all of us. We all had the same page of the menu choosing beef dishes!! They even had a couple of Lebanese dishes :D It was an amazing night for us all.
Coming to Bangalore I expected the same. All restaurants were the same style. Till a Brazilian colleague of ours invited us to a restaurant that serves beef in Bangalore. When I heard the invitation I was like "REALLY?!". The restaurant is called "The Only Place". I'm sure you might figure out by now from where they came out with the name! They have some amaaaazing steaks there!! I've been there 3 times so far. Every time I tried something new and I wasn't disappointed. When I start eating I feel like out of India for a while.
It is really ironic that going out to eat beef is by itself an event here. It's something we wait for from time to time!! Like we can say in Arabic "Ana raye7 2akol la7ma ya ged3aaaaaaan!!!". I might go next week and I'm going to try a new type of steak!! La7maaaaaaaa!!! :D
Stay tuned for my journey last weekend!!
Till next time ;)
The point of all this is that if you want to buy beef you won't find it!! In a normal restaurant you'll find a Veg menu and Non-Veg. The Non-Veg is either eggs, chicken, fish, or mutton (lamp meat). NO BEEF!! Coming from a country that is very normal to eat beef almost daily was quite hard at the beginning accepting this harsh reality!
We were invited to a girls birthday in a restaurant called RedBox while I still was in Mumbai. I went with another Egyptian guy and a Moroccan and 3 guys from Brazil. All beef eating countries. So I was going through the menu normally looking for something to eat expecting at least a new way to make chicken till I heard one of the guys saying "They have beef!!". We were all like "WHAT?!". That came after being 3 weeks in India eating chicken. It was like a shock for all of us. We all had the same page of the menu choosing beef dishes!! They even had a couple of Lebanese dishes :D It was an amazing night for us all.
Coming to Bangalore I expected the same. All restaurants were the same style. Till a Brazilian colleague of ours invited us to a restaurant that serves beef in Bangalore. When I heard the invitation I was like "REALLY?!". The restaurant is called "The Only Place". I'm sure you might figure out by now from where they came out with the name! They have some amaaaazing steaks there!! I've been there 3 times so far. Every time I tried something new and I wasn't disappointed. When I start eating I feel like out of India for a while.
It is really ironic that going out to eat beef is by itself an event here. It's something we wait for from time to time!! Like we can say in Arabic "Ana raye7 2akol la7ma ya ged3aaaaaaan!!!". I might go next week and I'm going to try a new type of steak!! La7maaaaaaaa!!! :D
Stay tuned for my journey last weekend!!
Till next time ;)
Why am I here?
So as I promised I would be explaining in one of my posts the whole purpose of me being here in India. For those of you who don't know here you go,,,
I'm here doing an internship for one year in a company named Tata Consultancy Services (www.tcs.com). It's an IT consultancy company. One of the biggest in Asia if not the biggest.
I got this internship through an organization called AIESEC (www.aiesec.org). The main purpose of this organization is people development. It does that through a lot of tools and activities. One of these tools is exchange. This simply means sending people from Egypt, for example, to any of the 100+ countries AIESEC exists in on an internship in a company. Through this you get to actually develop both professionally and personally. In Egypt also we receive people from other AIESEC countries to do internships.
Of course my description of the organization's activities is quite poor to what it actually does. If you wanna know more you can check the web site and know all there is to know about it. I was a member of this organization for about 3 years and I must say that I did learn a few things that made me who I am today.
I've spent 3 weeks in Mumbai before coming to Bangalore. The first week was company induction. The other two weeks were simply waiting for project allocation! My experience in Mumbai needs a separate post. Maybe I'll get to that later!! :D
Till next time ;)
I'm here doing an internship for one year in a company named Tata Consultancy Services (www.tcs.com). It's an IT consultancy company. One of the biggest in Asia if not the biggest.
I got this internship through an organization called AIESEC (www.aiesec.org). The main purpose of this organization is people development. It does that through a lot of tools and activities. One of these tools is exchange. This simply means sending people from Egypt, for example, to any of the 100+ countries AIESEC exists in on an internship in a company. Through this you get to actually develop both professionally and personally. In Egypt also we receive people from other AIESEC countries to do internships.
Of course my description of the organization's activities is quite poor to what it actually does. If you wanna know more you can check the web site and know all there is to know about it. I was a member of this organization for about 3 years and I must say that I did learn a few things that made me who I am today.
I've spent 3 weeks in Mumbai before coming to Bangalore. The first week was company induction. The other two weeks were simply waiting for project allocation! My experience in Mumbai needs a separate post. Maybe I'll get to that later!! :D
Till next time ;)
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