Yasmine Hamdi In Naples, Italy

To begin with, I had the best worst first internship experience in my life, with lots of ups and downs. It was my first time to ever travel abroad and I was in Italy!!! My dream country people! And then the big surprise: it wasn't just Italy but I was in Naples which is what I can call now the Italian version of Egyptians! ,with all their hand gestures and their body language :D You'd think that people living 100000 miles away would be different than you but It was the contrary , me and the other interns there were more alike than different. How many people can say that they have best friends not just friends all over Europe?? 

So when you say "Napoli" the first thing that should pop in to your mind is pizza and gelato! REALLY it was the best most awesome pizza and ice cream I could ever eat in my life, not to mention that I actually ate pizza in the place where pizza was first created 

"Sorbillo" !.

My Roommates/friends/family

In Italy you are never home !!

Simply I can say I had the full experience from crying because of problems and because of too much laughter and happiness.. It was the BEST Experience in my life even with a  broken leg :D. BIG HUGE THANKS TO AIESEC CAIRO 

UNIVERSITY =D

Nour El Kattan in Genova, Italy

At first when I applied as an EP in AIESEC Cairo University and there was always this slogan 'life changing experience'. I couldn't perfectly understand what it meant, but now after taking part, I've understood that this experience can truly change your life. My internship was in italy(genova) in a social bussiness challenge project and it was one of the most interesting things that I have ever done in my life :) We had three events , their aim was to collect money for south africa for charity in association with cesvi http://www.cesvi.org/?pagina=

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 At first, I was so afraid that I won't be able to fit and that I will have a big communication problem with all the other EP's from totally different cultures and places. Surprisingly, the italians were very friendly and all the aisecers in italy 'genova' were really helpful and were always with us trying their best for this to work. Also, we all got together, helping each other, sharing things, chatting, having great parties. 

In a very short period, these people not only became my close friends but we became a big family. We had lovely dinners together every night with someone cooking something from their own country, which was always amazing :).

Trying our best for our project to succeed.. exploring genova and having a blast I have never had such a great time in my whole life and now since I'm back home, I always think about the wonderful times I had and the people I lived with for 45 days. Simply, this experience has changed a lot in my personality and in the way I think.  I feel that I have gained more experience and confidence like never before.

Thank you so much AIESEC Cairo University and AIESEC Genova for giving me such a great oppurtunity, and for all the effort each one of you did to make this work :)