IONUT DANIFELD

GERMANY, UL INTERNATIONAL GERMANY, July 2008- January 2009

UL International GmbH Germany it’s a division of UL International. It’s a company that they main activity is to certificate products for America. For example: if Apple wants to bring a new product on the market it has to have an UL Certificate. The engineers in UL (Germany, Barcelona etc.) test the product and give after that an certificate.

The division in Germany-Isenburg it’s connected with the other divisions in the world, for example Barcelona.

Aiesec gave me the opportunity to work in an international company and it’s an incredible feeling. Everyone there spoke English and I had collages from Czech Republic, Poland, Russia, Dominican Republic, Germany. They were all incredible friendly people and always smiling. When you wanted something they were always there for you and they treat you with great respect. It’s amazing to work with people in different part of world, because you can learn all kind of culture things about there countries and you can promote you’re country. Everyone ask me about Romania, how is Transilvania, how is in you’re city, what’s the history of Romania. For example, I had a culture experience with Ivan and I talked with him about Romania and Czech. I learned that Czech people say “ahoj” (hello) and Czech and Slovaks can understand each other even if they are two countries. Beside gaining experience in the work field, this cultural part of an internship. Is incredible.

Internship in numbers and feelings:

• - 6 months in Germany. Incredible how fast time is flying
• - 10 cities visited in these 6 months: Darmstadt, Berlin, Erbach, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, Munchen, Neu-insburg, Wurzburg
• - 9 countries that I have friends and I know that whenever I want to go i’m more than welcome: Egypt, Germany, Slovakia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Brazil, Belgium, Czech, India
• - 6 months in a multinational company “UL International” that I got experience, I worked in business field and I learn how to interact with people

• - 3 apartments change in the last 6 months
• - Other 40 parties attended and talking with incredible people
• - One Aiesec conference that for me was a dream comes true
• - 6 months of blogging and other 6300 visitors and 150 articles written
• - More than 15 LCM atented in Aiesec Darmstadt
• - One speech in public in front of students of Darmstadt University … almost 40 people present
• - 3 goodbye parties: Ivan, Sadullah, Me

Internship thanks:

• - I want to thank Aiesec Iasi for supporting me in this going abroad and every time that I said that I quit
• - I want to thank Aiesec Darmstadt for being every time next to me and supporting me in every stupid thing that I wanted, and doing so many cool things for me. Because they always take me everywhere with them. Understanding every time this phrase: Englishhhhh guy

There is no such thing as good internship or a bad internship, is only the you’re internship and how you wanted to be!