Thank you for coming or official farewell meeting
The semester actually is not up yet. It is more than 1,5 months till it. Officially, autumn semester finishes on the 22nd of January. However, everybody is rational enough to understand that most of the exchange students will not come back after the Christmas holidays. And I'm among them :-) So today the International office of LiU held farewell meeting to catch the majority of the students while they are here.
The content of the meeting was quite obvious: how to get the transcripts of the records, don't forget to tide the room and return the keys, invitation to continue Master's in LiU, etc. But I was mostly impressed with the open speech of the head of the International office. I guess I was supposed to be touched with it but it didn't happened. The sense was about how brave we were to come so far away from home, from our friend and families to meet new friends and new experience. She told that it was experience tested our durability or proving the lack of self-confidence. Mmm... yes, yes, the speech was very sensitive but I understood accidentally that it was not about me. I definitely didn't feel anything from the described. It happened with me a year ago and now I didn't perceive fully that I'm on exchange, it was like to change the decorations of life :-) still being far away from friends and family. What about home? I believe that home is there, where I built it, where I am, in fact.
On the other hand, I felt that I could change the stage again and again. This is my most essential outcome from the exchange semester. I know now that I can again. Talking by the language of recruiters this is international experience and I urgently need to apply it!!!
P.S. The sandwich was a nice complement to the meeting and apology for taking time during our lunch break :-)
The content of the meeting was quite obvious: how to get the transcripts of the records, don't forget to tide the room and return the keys, invitation to continue Master's in LiU, etc. But I was mostly impressed with the open speech of the head of the International office. I guess I was supposed to be touched with it but it didn't happened. The sense was about how brave we were to come so far away from home, from our friend and families to meet new friends and new experience. She told that it was experience tested our durability or proving the lack of self-confidence. Mmm... yes, yes, the speech was very sensitive but I understood accidentally that it was not about me. I definitely didn't feel anything from the described. It happened with me a year ago and now I didn't perceive fully that I'm on exchange, it was like to change the decorations of life :-) still being far away from friends and family. What about home? I believe that home is there, where I built it, where I am, in fact.
On the other hand, I felt that I could change the stage again and again. This is my most essential outcome from the exchange semester. I know now that I can again. Talking by the language of recruiters this is international experience and I urgently need to apply it!!!
P.S. The sandwich was a nice complement to the meeting and apology for taking time during our lunch break :-)