Category: Global Short Programs
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I am here sitting at the Bangkok airport waiting to get on the plane to go back home, trying to put words together to explain this incredible experience but no words can describe how good it has been.With this trip I can finally tick the Asian continent off the map. When I landed I was…
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Swaggering off from those late night studies for exams, i left for Thailand with two friends Mia and Jasmin on the 2nd of July as part of the KMUTT program in Bangkok, Thailand. I took part in the program on two reasons, one is to refresh my mind from the stress of exams and to…
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I arrived in Thailand at 12am on 4th July knowing only a couple of Australian students on the trip and a British lady I had met on the plane. I struggled to communicate with the taxi driver because I knew no Thai and he had very little English. I finally got to KMUTT and had…
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On the 29th of January, I arrived in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was hot, humid, and the scent of floral air fresheners seemed to follow me through the airport, but little did I know that by the time the month was over, I would grow completely immune to all of this and I would have had one of…
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My time spent in Wuhan at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) was a great experience. Wuhan is one of the major cities within Central China. Because of this, less foreigners frequent the city as they would Beijing or Shanghai. This means what I was exposed to was a very traditional Chinese culture, free…
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I signed up for the Cambodian arts and culture BUiLD program because I wanted to learn how to apply the skills I have learned at university in the real world. I also wanted to learn how I could use these skills to make a difference in the world because when I leave university I don’t…
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3/1/15 – 4/1/15 After over 24hrs of travel due to booking my flights late I finally arrived in Phnom Penh! Upon driving out of the airport my first impression of Cambodia are its crazy roads! Almost the first motorbike I saw had a mother, father and two young children on it. What was most surprising…
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I, together with 11 other aspiring UTS students were fortunate enough to be selected as the first group of students to visit Mitsui & Co. Ltd. in Japan on a 2 week immersion internship under the Federal Government’s New Colombo Plan. The aim of the plan is to further Australian students’ understanding of and links…
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Japanese culture Culture shock Since I have studied Japanese in high school, I had a general idea of what I expected Japan to be prior to visiting Japan for the first time through this internship program. However, there were many occasions where I have experienced this so-called ‘culture shock’, from high-tech Japanese toilets to efficient…
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I didn’t quite know what to expect when I applied for this experience. Was I going to be delivering babies in rural areas with little resources? Was I going to spend the day with a Balinese midwife? Was I going to see and learn midwifery in a different culture that would change my approach in…
