How it all began....

Today I am gonna explain why I am going to Cartagena de Indias and how I got this opportunity. Basically, I am going there for an AIESEC Internship for half a year and I am going to teach English in a language center called Centro Colombo Americano.

First of all I must say that recently I have graduated from the University. I studied Applied Linguistics, specialization: German and Russian at the University of Warsaw. I have also some experience in teaching languages in private language schools and for individual clients

Now that I needed a job, and I also felt like going abroad after living 6 years in the same city, I thought I could find something interesting through AIESEC, an international youth organisation that offers paid internships all over the world. The word paid is very important in this context because in Poland most internships that you can get when being a student or a fresh graduate are unpaid which is, in my opinion, almost like slavery, even worse, because they make you think you do it voluntarily.

So, I applied for the membership in AIESEC which I got without any problems, the recruitment was nice and easy. I thought, searching for an Internship wouldn't be that nice and easy. Looking for a job is never nice and easy I thought. It's always rough!

Well, in this case - surprise, surprise - it wasn't! Everytime I am sending my CV to various companies in Poland, I know they mostly won't even contact me. And I was really surprised, because I got accepted in many places!

So, among the options that i had I chose to go to Cartagena. Because of the language (I already speak Spanish), great climate (I am fed up with the Polish cold) and great pictures and videos I found about the city. Hell yeah, I did my homework! :)

Here you have one that I liked a lot:

I am amazed by the things about Cartagena and Colombia that I'm reading and watching, I can't wait to go there! :D