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My UGRAD Story: how to apply

hi pals, assalamu’alaikum! AKHIRNYA PENDAFTARAN UGRAD 2022-2023 DIBUKA! Beda dari tahun sebelumnya, timeline pendaftaran tahun ini sudah normal lagi. Yakni dimulai pada awal November hingga 6 Januari 2022. penjelasan selengkapnya bisa teman-teman saksikan di video di bawah ini yaa! Kalau ada pertanyaan seputar online application UGRAD bisa juga ditanyakan di kolom komentar. I’ll get to it as…

[xiangleeean-blog]

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so finally it’s today. i’m leaving japan. literally my last night in tokyo. tbh i’m sad.. idk excited at the same time tho. it’s 50/50. my mom n dad is coming with me at narita airport and i’m sure that i’ll cry. i know it’s just a year but still.. *sniffs* lol i’m being a little dramatic here, but anyways i’m rly sad. but who knows, this might be once in a life time exchange study in taiwan or studying abroad itself. and i’m coming bk to japan anyways. i’m going to miss japanese foods and japanese toilets oh gosh it’s the best. i wish i can bring one of my fav. japanese toilet to taiwan lmao. 

btw i’m not going to live at my university’s dormitory. i decided to rent an apartment room and live alone. i don’t think i can live with 4 ppl on the same room lol.. n i also wanna give it a try on what it is like to live alone in a completely new environment where i don’t know anybody and don’t understand the language. i took chinese courses but still i almost know nothing lol. i studied simplified chinese (mandarin) at my home university but taiwanese use traditional chinese writings and i heard that taiwanese-mandarin is a little bit diff. from the standard mandarin. omg SO CONFUSING. but yeah, at least i can guess some meanings of the chinese characters cause japan is mixed of simplified and traditional characters. anyways, wish me luck. good night.

[paperplanesfromfinland-blog]

It took me two days to find a teacup. The local students are screaming outside. I would scream with them if I knew how and what.

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I’ve just found an old photo from my trip to NY where I went to a fabulous exhibition of a great Korean artist, Airan Kang #airankang. Brought back so.many.memories!⁣ ⁣ You guys know how much I love books📚 Books - their boundless possibilities and their cultural significance - are central to the work of Kang. How cool would it be to have such a bright bookshelf in my own place? 🤔⁣

[liepustudentexperienceblog]

I decided to apply to Liepaja University because of it’s interesting courses which any other partner university didn’t offer. After my student exchange period, I’m still so happy with my decision. I enjoyed the atmosphere of this small city and fell in love with Liepaja’s beautiful beach. Also, my cheerful and nice exchange student friends made this experience even more funnier. I will definitely come back to Liepaja some day.

Sanna Koskinen, Erasmus+ exchange student from Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland)

Photos from the Cultural exchange evening where Sanna presented her country  

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Day 220, and so the adventure begins! After a huge amount of time I have finished my first day at the university of lapland! I have seen a ton of people, talked to some but most people I can not remember the names of...hopefully I can do that tomorrow! Let the battle begin! • • • #universityoflapland #art #studentart #university #battle #school #fortress #siege #castle #persevirance #determination #excitment #sketch #reimagining #watercolour #watercoloursketch #watercolourdrawing #environmentart #conceptart #fantasy #fantasyart #fantasysketch #fantasydrawing #fantasypainting #fantasylandscape #exchangestudies #adventure #illustration #draweveryday #watercolourlandscape (at Rovaniemi, Finland) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmwH0-VByAX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uia779kgipqi

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Anyone going to Yonsei next spring for study abroad???? Let’s be friends y'all!!! 😁😁😁 …….. or if you’re going for a study abroad next spring anywhere in Seoul 😇😇

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My UGRAD Story: TOEFL iBT

My UGRAD Story: TOEFL iBT

Assalamu’alaikum pals! Been a while! Kali inii elsa mau sharing tentang pengalaman seleksi UGRAD elsa nih! Buat temen-temen yang belum tahu apa itu UGRAD, you guys can refer to this page yaa! Oiya, seleksi UGRAD ini sebenarnya sudah dimulai sejak bulan Januari lalu. Elsa mulai aplikasi ini awal bulan Februari dan submit di bulan Maret. Tahapan seleksi administrasi ini meliputi berkas pribadi…

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Buka Bersama ala Indonesian in Laramie

Buka Bersama ala Indonesian in Laramie

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My UGRAD Story: (virtual) Interview

My UGRAD Story: (virtual) Interview

Hi pals, assalamu’alaikum! Soooo as promised, kali ini elsa akan cerita rangkaian proses seleksi wawancara Global UGRAD yang elsa lalui pada bulan April lalu. It started when I got an email saying I was qualified for the interview selection, along with several shortlisted candidate in my mailing list. It was an unpredicted email I got just before doing my ashr prayer. As soon as I got the…

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Week one. Her name is Melon(i).

I have been living in Hong Kong for a week now. Crazy, it feels like I have been here a lot longer than that even though my studies haven’t really even started yet.  The study exchange is already breaking those expectations I had about moving to another country and starting a semester in a new university. I haven’t felt miserable, I haven’t missed home yet and I also haven’t encountered the “honeymoon” phase I was warned about. This would mean a period of glorious feelings of happiness and excitement only to fall flat when I realised the day to day life will be more or less the same no matter where in this globe I reside. None of these are present, it’s been…a surprisingly (sweaty, frustrating and in the end) stable start.

Of course, there are differences. The weather was like a punch in the face – the heat and the humidity. Instead of heating system you are paying for air conditioning.  When you are in a bathroom the doors open towards you instead of opening outside – I wonder when this will register to my muscle memory. For now, I struggle to try pushing my doors open and trying to lift the noodles with chopsticks from the soup. The group of older Chinese women at the same table will smile at my rusty eating manners but the humour is of a friendly kind. I smile back at them.

People approach me offering help without me asking for it which is a difference also, a really welcome one. I wonder just how lost I must look like from time to time. Not only do other people approach me more but I also find myself approaching strangers more and with an ease that has been foreign to me before. This I hope will last – it would be an amazing thing to eventually bring with me back to Finland. People have been amazing. Hopefully I’ll learn from that.

Today I found myself having lunch with a local priest. It was full in the canteen so we shared the table. He was far better in small talk than I was and we had a nice meal together. I got compliments for my usage of the chopsticks, the ladies in the same table still smiling and glancing at us from time to time. I got to use my horrible Chinese skills, got tips about where to visit in Hong Kong and got to listen to this man’s stories. As much as I was given in that moment, time and attention in the forefront, I’d like to think he enjoyed the moment too to some degree at least. I can admit I was quite pleased with myself for getting him to laugh several times, his mouth full of rice.

I haven’t figured out where to find certain kind of batteries, which products in the market are raw and which ready made or where to find an UV umbrella. I bought a stuffed animal instead, now wondering if I should name it after this city or after the Korean ice-cream I had yesterday. I’m learning to adjust to different forms of English, the richness of accents from around the world. I have time. I’ll figure it out in the end. 

This is the start.

04.09.2018

[xiangleeean-blog]

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やっとこの日が来ました。今日の夕方頃には台湾に居ますよ。７月までは毎日早く留学に行きた～いと思ってたのにここ最近はまだ行きたくないかも、、と思ってました。いや、やっぱり悲しい。日本は絶対恋しくなる、特にトイレと和食。１年なんてあっという間てよく聞きますけど、う～ん、どうだろう..　長いような短いような.. 汗　でも楽しい意味のある留学にしたいと思います���帰国時はえ～まだ日本に帰りたくない～と思えるくらい楽しんで行きます。

で明日朝早いのに（おそらく５時半起床）なんでこんな時間まで起きてるのかというとまず荷物の準備（済）とスマホに音楽（今ここ）を入れてる最中です。正確に言うと今から音楽を入れるところです。明日機内でやることないので音楽でも聞きながら爆睡しょうかなと思います。ですが、全然上手くいかない..　なぜ..　もう３０分以上スマホとパソコンを同時にいじってるのに音楽が同期されるどころかまずスマホがパソコンに繋がらないというトラブル。どうしょう、でも音楽は諦めたくない、助けてくれぇ

とりあえずなんとかします（笑）では、おやすみなさい。

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Exchange studies at Liepaja University was a good opportunity to meet some new cultures and new people from other countries.

I think some friends that I made here are really special in my life now. From this experience I hoped to improve my English. And I want to come back to Europe someday again, for trip or for seeing friends again.

Heewon Choi, exchange student from Soongsil University (South Korea)

Photo from Culture exchange evening / Korean Culture presentation