绝望之为虚妄，正与希望同在

 

        Peter Lee学长的经历听来真是曲折的不能再艰辛了，看着这个在废墟后重生，无数打击后站起来的男子，让人心中充满敬意。

        Peter是上海大学的物理研究生，从2004年9月开始加入爱因斯特，申请奥地利维也纳的offer，到突然间雇主的cancel，7月新的美国offer成型，7月底又被cancel，Peter没有放弃，他说材料准备的过程更是一个很好认识自我的过程。2005年他以志愿者的名义加入爱因斯特，从力所能及的地方开始积累能力和经验，看不见的机会把握不住，但是看得见的成功不能放弃，他在爱因斯特实习的日子里帮助更多的学弟学妹办理出国申请，一手制作出了OEMS和IEMS系统，使得材料包的申请、上传、更正、评估一体化，极大提高了工作效率并得以推广运用。问及Peter这时是什么心态，Peter颇有一种成大事者不拘小节的风度，说心里总是抱着一个理想，一定要去美国的，一定会去美国的，这样一种小小的火花伴随着他一直走过这一路。

    如果说五月花号邮轮见到自由女神像的那刻，仿佛见到了自由的象征，如果说在《Terminal》中，Tom Hanks跨出机场的一小步是对一个旧世界的终结和一个新世界的浮现，那么在2006年6月，Peter终于到达了美国，那一刻对他而言是最难忘的吧，除了兴奋也有苦尽甘来的快乐。上飞机前的那一刻问及Peter此时想的是什么，回答是“我最喜欢乘飞机了，爽”。

    美国三个月的实习很快就过去了，兴奋归来的Peter已经研三了，面临着找工作的他一路艰辛历程仍未结束，第一次面试便被计算机公司CEO相中，但一个问题“IBM有更高的工资你去吗？”来考察企业忠诚度的时候，非常不幸的与企业文化不相吻合被拒，11月份第二家计算机公司实习，三个月内实习最直接的感受便是工作强度大，没有发展前途，3月面微软，整整5轮面试都到了最后一关，被挂。。。人生充满了种种可能，也充满了无限无奈，直到3月4月又一轮工作高峰，面试群涌而至风生水起，Peter抓住大好时机一鼓作气进了爱立信，这个全球领先的提供端到端全面通信解决方案以及专业服务的供应商公司。但是上帝打开一扇门的同时，亦可能打开一扇窗。故事并没有结束，原先美国实习的公司老板突然呼唤Peter回去工作，并且高额聘请律师，对谁而言这都是很好的机会，然而Peter已经有了爱立信的工作在前并且签订了协约，其二，中国法律规定J1的签证2年之后才能继续办理工作签证，然而Peter刚回国一年都不到，怎么出去？事情就卡在这里了吗？班要继续上，美国这里的事双方都在想办法，一下子都miserable起来了，在这个节骨眼上，Peter锻造出了何不再申请J1签证的想法？这是个明智的选择，虽然J1只能签一年，但相对于每月5000刀的工资和对方的诚意，将这次出行顺利完成将是最大的宗旨。如今，Peter已顺利拿到去美的签证，并且将在12月出行，再一次去到美国，我们衷心地祝愿他前途坦荡一切顺利：）

Nevena Golubovic,
Country: Serbia (nationality: Serbian)
Major: Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics
Training Institution: IDSignet and IAESTE China, Shanghai

 

    When I applied for an internship I got 3 offers. One of them was China. I was a little bit skeptic because it's so far away from my country. After few days of discussing I decided to go to China! Afterwards I found out why some of my friends and people who were in China suggested me to come here. Thank you all!
   
    When I arrived, Somsak, intern from Thailand, picked me up from the airport and helped me with all the formal things after my arrival. He and his knowledge of Chinese have been really helpful for all of us.
   
    When we arrived from the airport I realised that this country is completely different from any European country. It's almost imposible to describe the feelings when you suddenly, for the first time, meet with chinese way of writing in its full sense. Everywhere. I was also equaly supprised with traffic and food. Food is diferent in taste around China, and Shangai is characteristic for the sweet food. It took me almost two weeks to get used to it. Traffic is a little bit dangerous, mostly because of the bikes :), but when you adapt it could bring you more fun every morning runing to the office together with the river of people, bikes, etc...Chinese letters were the most interesting challenge for me! Very soon after my arriving my friend from China thought me how to write down Chinese characters, how to divide them and how to count lines in each of them. I was so proud whenever I successed  to find some word in Chinese-English dictionary without pinyin. Fascinating and exciting at the same time. But very disecouraging if we talk about the writing.

 

    During my internship I spent half of the time in IDSignet, local company for software development with such kind of organization that a lot of companies would anvy them. Most of employees speak English but are to shy to speak. Also I spent some time working in IAESTE office, where I had great opportunity to improve not only my computer skill but also my English, Chinese, as well as comunication skills through so many training, seminars, discussions etc. It helped me to consider myself as a team player and to found out what are my weakneses and goodnesses as a team player. Even working on quite different projects we helped to each other a lot. It helped me to understand their job as well. We also had some trainings about how to deal with some problems in future career. It was also good opportunity to meet so many peopple from all over the world and also from China.

 

   I had luck to share the apartment with other IAESTE interns from all over the World. That brought me new friends and chance to learn about diferent countries and cultures. I will miss a lot those moments when we were sitting together in our living room, chating or having dinner together. 

 

   During the working days, after work we used to go for a walk through Shanghai or to go together for a dinner while the weekend time we used to travel to other cities near Shanghai. Those traveling helped us to see not only busy life in Shanghai but more calm way of life in other provinces of China. One think I wouldd like to mention here is that it is impossible to stay in the street looking in your map longer then two minutes and no one to come to ask you in English if you need some help. They are so friendly and willing to help!

 

  Few weekends I spent walking around Shanghai. The most impresive thing I saw in Shanghai is Shanghai National Museum. Few days later I was only thinking how great your history is. Before I came to China I thought I knew a little bit about Chinese culture or history, but now I found out that I knew almost nothing, because I realised how rich both Chinese culture and history are! And that three months are not enough to even peek into it. These few months, were the most interesting longer period of my life. A period of fast learning and adapting. I cannot remember the night when I didn't want that day to last longer than 24h.
   
    There is a lot to say about China, but if one picture is aware for thousands words then the only way to describe China is to ask you to come here. I'd like to come here and stay longer next time!
    Thank you all a lot!