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Visa la Vida

As I told you in the last post, I will tell you everything I know about Chinese Visa. If you don’t know yet, I’m an Indonesian and AIESEC in Indonesia has an initiative to make a kind of visa booklet. Visa booklet is for us to fill in all information about our visa making process and all. This would help upcoming exchange participants during their visa making process. I have to say that I was considered kind of late to submit the visa application. Due to my university schedule, it’s difficult for me to spare some time to go to the visa center. So, I forgot when I did it but it took 4 working days to finish. It’s quite easy to make the visa. I did it myself. Alone. Here are some things you need to know. No. It’s not the embassy. To make a Chinese visa, you don’t go to the embassy but a Chinese Visa Application Service Center (CVASC) since a lot of Indonesians go to China nowadays. It lies in The East Tower, Mega Kuningan Street No. 2, South Jakarta 12950, Indonesia. ...

my AIESEC experience

Well, I’ve promised some people that I would tell them about my AIESEC experience. Since literally, it’s pretty hard for me to explain why I did what I did. For example, when my relatives (family members outside my little family of 4) asked why I went to China, I usually said, “Well, it’s like volunteering. I taught English to Chinese students and all.” And as curious as they usually are, they would ask about the financial stuff. Bleh . It’s kind of hard to talk about this so usually I said, “No, I wasn’t paid. I told you it’s like volunteering,” and just shrugged it off.­ Now I’m going to tell you about all possible questions people asked me about this AIESEC thing in the simplest possible way. Q: What is AIESEC? AIESEC is a world youth-led organization. And now, AIESEC is (how to say this?) available (?) in 126 countries and it keeps growing. Check out aiesec.org for more information. Q: What did you do? What I did can be considered as volunteering. I have to tell y...