Category: Fiji
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My participation in the New Colombo Plan (NCP) Short Study Tour at Fiji National University (FNU) for Nursing and Public Health students was an experience I will never forget. Before the trip, I created three goals for myself including immersing in Fijian culture, meeting new people, and discovering the true meaning of the NCP trip…
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“We learn the most when we are strangers and the best way to be a stranger is by landing ourselves in a new place.”- this is the biggest motivation I bear with me as a travel enthusiast and civil engineering student. Studying in Australia as an international student, the values of getting along with people…
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The heat clings to the back of my neck. In front of me the upturned roots of the coconut tree stare up at the sky. This isn’t the postcard island scene – something is wrong. I’m in Fiji for a two-week, sustainable development course. A sense of responsibility has brought me here, and the guilt…
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The Real Fiji. That is what myself and 20 other students from the University of Technology, Sydney were able to experience in the early summer days of 2019. I had heard about the beautiful sunsets but I have never seen a place so green and met people who are so welcoming, in my life. It…
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‘Fiji time’, a term I heard a lot whilst sweltering in the heat and humidity of the Pacific Island Nation Fiji. A reference to how things happen in their own time that is a lot slower than what we Australians are used it. Whilst it can be irritating and frustrating to most, it is actually…
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My time in Fiji was nothing but an experience of a lifetime!! Myself, along with 20 other students in our 4th year of the Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation completed a social enterprise and sustainable development program with Unbound. We immersed ourselves in the communities of Waivaka and Namatakula where we ate and drank…
