UEA International Student Ambassadors

Hi everyone, How was your holiday? I guess it must be so much fun! Some of you may choose to travel, see new place, some stay in Norwich or around Norwich. I chose to come back to my home country, Indonesia and stayed with my mom, dad, and my dogs. It was a nice period of time where I could meet my friends, my old bed, and also hugging my dogs. Although it was a short period of holiday, there were enough time to try different local food that I have always missed when I study or work abroad, such as these food as presented in the pictures below. Noodle, meet balls and super duper hot crips (sort of like local Walkers) "Sekoteng", like hot ginger alle with jelly and nuts "Tahu Gejrot" Tofu with hot and sweet sauce "Teh Tarik and Moci" Teh tarik is tea with milk and moci is a sweet traditional puffy cake During my holiday time, with support from Pete, I was working part time in Indonesia to present UEA in one of the agents meeting. It was a pleas...

People, no matter how different, tend to have the same concerns when they're thinking about making the crazy jump from home to abroad. Among what I'd rank the top five concerns is finding a job. I tend to think finding a job is a pretty trying task even when you're in your home country - throw in living in a foreign one, and feeling like a complete noob, and it takes on a whole new level of crazy. There's nothing quite like walking up to a counter, CV in hand, trying to make a good impression but really just despairing of the process entirely. But despair not! Getting a job is all about you . If you don't have the motivation, persistence, and confidence, it's not going to happen. So all you have to do is be your amazing self (dressed smartly, of course) and win people over. Being foreign is a talking point - I almost always start conversations off with something about California. One of my English friends joked the other day that you can always fall back on the ...