At first I should express my appreciation to IAESTE for her help during the whole procedure of my training. On the whole, most of her work was in a fine order of cooperation so that many potential troubles were avoided. And I am especially grateful to that kind girl in IAESTE Hellas, who picked me up in mid-night on my arrival in Athens. But unfortunately I could hardly remember her name before her hurried departure for Germany. Just one week later when I picked up another Chinese student at the same time and that same place, I started to get known that to pick somebody up in mid-night was such a hard work.
I'd like to review my training experience in 3 main aspects.
1. Working on Kamari plant in TITAN Cement Company S.A.
My job was to establish a new database for quality control department. In more details, the new software included the input interface for all analyses results, macros for automatic calculations and statistics, and report generator. Because of the particular working and living habits of Greek people, I feel easy at first but extremely busy at the last week. Maybe Greek people are glad to enjoy the free time until the deadline. Anyway, I succeeded in finishing the task with my background knowledge in both computer science and chemical engineering.
2. Living in Omega Hotel
Most of IAESTE students to Greece were living in Athens, and most of those in Athens were living in Omega Hotel. That was the best thing that I enjoyed rather than the comfortable living conditions. I used to talk with foreign friends like others did. But I usually focused on those friends from undeveloped countries; some are even special, such as Palestine, Jordan, Yugoslavia, Moldova, Slovenia and etc. We could have a long chat through the night. We had serious topics and those were communications between thoughts. Finally, we became friends, the real friends unlike those around the table during dinner time.
3. Feeling Greece with my body
Hellas is such a charming name that I feel untouchable. IAESTE Hellas has organized a pretty good tour project taking the weekends and holidays, which was very helpful to us. For time limited, I didn't participate in all the tours. But the Acropolis, Delphi, Olympia, Sounion and island Angistri are quite enough to me. I had good preparations before each trip since all of them were sacred to me. During workdays, I tried to learn anything in Greece from my friends. All above ensure me a fruitful journey to Europe.
At last, if we Chinese students could have our Chinese food at meal, the trip should have been perfect.