Faisal Bahadur Khan's Trip to Russia

"I saw the World how the people of different countries behave, think and interact. The Expectation of the people from each other and the desire for doing something special for the people of the World. The most important the desire of serving humanity.  I reduce the misconception of the people about my country and showed the true picture and changed their perception about my country. I learned how to being optimistic help you to move forward and reduces the misunderstanding. Aiesec help the world to reduce the cultural difference and help them to create strong relationship. This internship helped me to become an independent person and this internship helped me to think beyond limitation. My life is incomplete without this Great experience and this was the first step in my life to learn about the World."

Here is faisal's Experience in his own words.

Moscow is very beautiful and very big. This city is very busy People are working throughout the day. People are very friendly but less talkative. First week I spend in Seliger their was around 4000 people in a beautiful lake people from around the world came together to learn about International Business, Media, art etc. When, I came to Moscow I saw a totally different culture and I tried my level best to adjust to the environment. The L.C Moscow people were really hard workers and supportive they are really hospitable and caring. This was the best experience in my life which made me a confident individual. Once I purchased 4 kilos of chicken and the shopkeeper didn’t understand English and I didn’t understand Russian it was a great experience. Even though neither of us could communicate by use of language, we understood implicitly what was trying to be said. Doing internship abroad is a wonderful experience because it helps you to interact with different cultures, it broadens your horizon and more in more lets you assist in reaching your potentials. Russia is a country that promotes its language, sometimes it gets difficult to communicate with the Russians due to language problem but as we say that “sign-language” is one that has been with human beings since the ancient era thus, it takes you out from this problem. By doing internship in Moscow, I can say that I have spent my time constructively as I learnt a lot from this life changing experience in a more vast cultured environment.

My Internship Experience:

I went for my internship to Moscow, Russia the name of the program was International Summer in Moscow and my internship period was from 28 June 2010 to 10 August 2010. In this program I had to attend the Business and Innovation lectures in the Seliger 2010 conference which only gave opportunity to three thousand students globally. I also had to give the presentation regarding my country Pakistan. This program also gave me opportunity to learn new things from diversified cultured people. I was also given a task by my officials to speak about the Corporate Social Responsibility in Asia. My session was attended by 30-40 people from different nationalities. In Moscow we were employed by CREATIVE VITA leisure club for its marketing purpose and a project LETS TALK in this I represent my language to people from different countries.

I prefer International internship over the local internship because it helps you to reach to your potentials as you will be surrounded by different nationality people each good at his specific field. You learn a lot from them and also you let others learn from you, International internship lets you become independent, broadens your horizon. International internship experience develops valuable leadership skills in a global environment. International internship increases youth impact in the world, as the society needs leaders who are entrepreneurial, culturally sensitive, and socially responsible and take an active part in their own learning. International internships offer you the opportunity to take on a leadership role in your careers.

My Global Network:

AIESEC gave me a life changing opportunity to increase my global network. There a lot of people with whom I interacted and learn a lot from them. First of all in this I would name an AIESECER of LC Moscow who was with us most of the time and his name is Atabek Anarbaev. He is really a great guy; he was responsible to manage us in Seliger 2010 conference. All the interns were use to report him and he use to assign us work on daily basis and sometimes on short notice. Short notice use to test our skills of how to tackle with a challenge. He was really a responsible guy during his duty hours but after the duty hours were over he use to hang out with us, he use to go cycling with us, rock climbing, bungee jumping in fact basically a tree jumping with all the gears that were needed for bungee jumping.

I would also like to talk about my employer of Creative Vita Mr. Denis Konyshev, he was a great and enthusiastic guy. He is very friendly and talks to his employees very respectfully. Sometimes, it was hard for him to speak in English so he starts speaking in Russian, then there we need a translator to make us understand what he wants from us. He is also very health conscious. Luckily, me and my friend Hassaan got a chance to stay with him at his apartment for two days and this helped us to understand what he wants from us. He was a punctual guy. It was hard for him to pronounce mine and Hassaan’s name so he used to call us “Hassy and Faissy”. He was responsible for business development of creative vita so he asked all the interns about how to market his leisure club. He divided all the interns in two groups with the help of me and made me the head for one group which has to create promotional strategies for the club. He was very impressive with our Branding strategies and he asked us to do branding of its club card in Train.