Why?
So why do I go on an AIESEC ("@") exchange? It really had to do with my career and my passion. For my career, I wish to work in places other than Hong Kong, so this exchange offers me an opportunity to practice working with people completely, for the lack of a better word, alien to me. As for my passion, I wish the world would be a peaceful place where there are no racial discrimination. And so I have decided to embark on a journey to live with different races.Materializing my dream into measurable goals
But how would I know I have genuinely been benefited from this exchange? Well, I have created a few goals for me to achieve. The first being discovering key cultural concepts. By key cultural concepts I mean something like the American Dream, the peaceful ways of the Canadians and the "those who don't look back to where they came from will never reach their destinations" of the Philipines. By learning such concepts, I believe I would be able to understand and see things in others ways. I mean, how could there be peace when you keep seeing things in your way? The remaining goals being establishing strong friendships with locals and interns. These are really to prove that races don't matter because whether we are German, Indian, American or African, in the end... we are all human. It is peace, not race, that truly matters. And it is only when we all love each other could there be real peace.
Reminding myself of my mission
So this is what I had done to remind myself of my mission: a mini T-shirt with a drawing of friends around the globe holding hands together. If only this T-shirt could also play Louis Armstrong... Imagine the T-shirt playing the song... I see friends shaking hands, saying how do you do...
T-Shirt, paint and the idea of drawing on the T-shirt came from Delton Li.
