I know this is a very late post about this (A year after). I got lazy haha. But This journey really gave me a new insight and experience into life in a different country and I am grateful that I jumped into this opportunity.
So after my second year of University Shenanigans, I was trying to find an internship, but alas, I was unsuccessful. However, I did not want to waste my time moping and rolling around at home, I decided to look for alternatives. Remembering that my sister did volunteering in Taiwan, I sought an audience with her to find out more about Aiesec. With super enthusiasm, my sister assisted me in providing essential information and gave her opinion.
Once I was registered, I began to look through the large database of internships and volunteering abroad. At first, it was rather overwhelming, there were so many questions: Where should I go - What should I do - Will I enjoy it - How long will this last - What are my skills - Am I ready to go? I e-mailed numerous countries that I was interested including South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan and many others. However, I was a bit disappointed to find that a lot of them did not reply, or were very slow at replying.
Eventually I stumbled upon Mauritius. Now I must admit that I had no idea where this country was, so I researched it and found it was like a small island just besides Madagascar. It was funny how this happened. I liked a post of a beach on the Aiesec exchange group and instantly someone messaged me. It came as a surprise as I just liked it for the photo. We got talking through Facebook messenger and was intrigued with the project called IT4ALL. Time was running out and I was very interested, so I decided to go for it. I had a Skype Interview and 30 minutes after I was accepted!
I was there for 7 weeks with 11 other people living in the same roof. It was daunting, It was exciting but best of all, I did not know I was male incredible memories there.
My family for the next 7 weeks :)
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