My traineeship took place in Belgium, in the province of Limburg where people speak a dialect of Dutch called Flemish.

The internship I took was a market research position with a real estate company led by an American CEO, in Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria.

After only one week of looking for a traineeship, I had the OK of the company and five days later I was on my way to one of the greatest periods in my life in Pecs, Hungary.

To sum up one's experience during a three month traineeship seems almost impossible to me.

One day I'm walking down the streets of Nairobi wearing my backpack with my Canadian flag on the back.

Hi my name is Paola Tafur, I am from Colombia and I am doing my traineeship in Mexico city for one year. I have been here for almost nine months.

Malta is quite crowded right now with all the tourists. Mostly it's 14-16 year olds that come to Malta to learn English (yeah right more like drink 2 beers throw up on themselves and pass out) and for a break from school.

Seven months ago, 2 weeks after my arrival I experienced a really fantastic and totally unexpected earthquake (scale 8)

I spent the summer of 1999 in Izmir, Turkey, the third largest city in Turkey located on the Aegean Sea. I spent most of my time in the company of the local Aiesecers, other trainees and other people who lived in the same hostile that we did.

The place of Traineeship is in Ukraine - near Russia. The AIESECers there were really helpful as always - more than anything; they have put me on to a good company, which has a lot of Western Exposure.

I have made the best friends in Austin during my traineeship. People whom I care for tremendously and who have had and will have an impact on my life for a very long time…

I've been here now six months and it's has been great time.

After a while, I have many stories to share. I just came back from Belgrade, Iugoslavia, where I participated in the EuroLDS, an AIESEC conference with 240 delegates from 45 different countries around the world.

I worked in Durban, South Africa for about 10 months in 1998. I worked as a lecturer for the Institute for Computer Education in South Africa (ICESA).

While speeding on a train from Vienna to Breclav the weight of my situation crashed down upon me. The distance between me and my home in Texas was then greater than it had ever been before.

Going on a traineeship can be one hell of an experience.

Before coming to Bangalore, I really didn't know what to expect.

For five weeks in the early fall of 1999, I had the opportunity to live and work in the industrial heart of the Japanese economy - Nagoya City.

Malaysia was not my first choice for a traineeship but was a fortunate match for me and has since become my temporary home.

A New York state of mind...is one that is diverse, is one that is open to new ways of doing & thinking a world where people walk as fast as I do and think faster than I do.

The decision was not easy to make, but more difficult was to get a visa from the yugoslav embassy in Bern...I spent days and days struggling to get it. Let's say that my first contact with the yugoslav burocracy was rather conflictual and discouraging!!