Our AIESEC Experiences Abroad: BRASOV

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Enjoying the last breakfast in Friends’ Hostel, I pick all the things to the station. I missed the train nearly since I didn’t find out where it was. Luckily, I got this on in last moment. Next time I will reserve more time for it. :P

2^nd class seat is okay, perhaps there are not many people there. Train is not very fast and it stops quite often. But the interest thing is that there was no name for some stations. Outside the window of the train, there were mostly farmland and mountains. The scenery started to change if the train approaches Brasov. There was no longer plain, but tall mountain with snow on the top. After three and a half hours, I arrived in Brasov with the train delaying for half an hour. Edith, a reception team member from AIESEC Brasov, picked me up and went to the place I will be living in. Originally I thought that I will be living in a youth hostel, but it turned out I will be living with an AIESECer. What a good news to me! When I walked out of the station, the feeling that Brasov gave me was already very different from that of Bucharest. Streets were cleaner with fewer buildings around. After settling my luggage in Mich’s place , Edith took me to the city centre before she took the lesson. The buildings in Brasov were very beautiful with its red color. They were not large but stylish. This Saxon town had not disappointed me. Then we met with another girl, Maria, who was also the reception team member. She took me to natural path of Brasov and we will join with Edith later on. We walked to a little river, along the old fortress wall. Everything seems so pleasant with a nice weather. We climbed up a higher point where the White town was located. A bird view of the whole Brasov can be seen there, which was very nice. We had managed to go to another town, which was the black town. A brief history of Brasov was told by Maria and it was the crown of the city in Transylvania indeed. I also told a lot about Hong Kong to her as well as how to distinguish people from China, Japan and Korea. The city tour continued and we reached the northern gate of the fortress, which was very marvelous too. Surprisingly, there were numerous high schools inside the city, with Hungarian and German speaking one. The reason why there were different languages for teaching the high school was because of the history of Transylvania. Blocs of university were located in different parts of the city, which was also very interesting that they did not have a large campus for thousands of students. Then, Edith joined and Maria was about to leave. Edith showed me to the city square as well as the black church. The black church was medieval building that remained as a landmark there. It was originally golden but after a fire, it became black in color. We walked a far to reach the oldest church in the city, which was an ordox church. It was breathtaking too with the first Romanian school aside. The weather became cooler and started to rain a bit. It didn’t stop sharing and chatting among us. Another destination was the AIESEC office, although I hadn’t gone inside today, AIESECers were very friendly and nice to me when they met me. They were very hospitable that I can truly feel that. They also invited me to offer some help for them in doing recruitment and I was very willing to accept that. So, I decided to stay here for a bit longer, which can do sightseeing and AIESEC works at the same time. We were only staying there for a short time and we walked back to Miha’s home. The weather became to deteriorate since it started to rain and windy. Though it was quite tired for the whole day, it was really very pleasant and nice to be in Brasov.