Victor Working Hard in Tokyo

This blog should've been written 1 week ago.

            Victor Liao from AIESEC Yale is now in Tokyo, Japan. Working hard. However, for everyone to be able to know his awesomeness and how hard he contributes to his internship, he decided to write this blog while working.

           His EP manager gave him a wrong expectation on AIESEC internships. Believing that AIESEC internships are chill and easy, Victor realized that his EP manager sucks after working 13 hours on the first day of work. He probably broke the record for longest working hour EP. It is Japanese business culture for workers to work late until 8 or 9 o’clock to show they are hard working. Although the EP manager told him that the working hour is from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday, Victor normally goes home at 10 or 11pm three days a week. This is a consulting firm... AIESEC DO HAVE LEGIT BUSINESS INTERNSHIPS.

Besides working on the global recruiting project assigned by the company, Victor was assigned to another difficult task – having lunch and dinner with all the employees in the company for them to practice English conversation skills and know more about different culture. Victor probably tried all the restaurants near the company’s office. Fortunately, the company paid for all his meals.

Done with work, weekends are all about SLEEPING, EATING, and DRINKING. Oh! And some sight-seeing. The AIESECers in Tokyo University are awesome people. Besides making sure every logistic detail is well prepared, they have events for Victor to attend every weekend. Dorm drinking party, izakaya drinking party, BBQ drinking party, and the crazy regional AIESEC drinking party with 80 students all in one restaurant drinking… In these parties, Victor made a lot of friends after impressing people with his drinking ability. He even received some funny drunk texts. Also, Victor got to introduce himself to the LC and share some personal experience in a LCM. Next weekend, Victor will be going on a trip with some AIESECers to a nearby tourist site to see some Japanese temples.

             Tokyo is a really nice place. Good food, fancy department stores, cool culture, and some really nice people. Victor really enjoyed his internship so far and is really thankful to his EP manager for making this exchange possible. He really hopes that in the future more people can do this internship as well. OGX team, work harder next semester!!