So much to tell!

Hey everyone,

I just had exeat and it was awesome!! I will write a separate post about it as soon as I get the pictures etc. The last weeks so much happened! Ok, so firstly 9-10 february it was Lunar New Year – which you might know as ‘Chinese Newyear’-. Therefore we had a wonderful surprise for Brunch -- our East Asian students were preparing all kinds of delicious food for- pad thai, malaysian chow mein, korean pancakes, vietnamese crepes and vegetarian sushi. They even made fortune cookies for us! These are the moments that you realize how lucky you are to be at a uwc and to share all the different cultures. A Big, big Thank you to you for sharing your culture with all of us! The food was delicious. This year is the year of the snake. 

Secondly I had a French diner with all the French-speaking people. I think we were about 10 people – there are way more people, but we organized it a bit late so not everyone could come- and we had good food. It was nice to hang out with them and to speak French. It made me realize how fast you can lose a language! I really feel that I speak worse than before. But it’s fine because we all understand English as well. It was really nice and we will do it again for sure. That’s something that is also very nice about MUWCI, you just have a lot of opportunities where you come together with a group of people to have fun (for example house dinners, French dinners, dutch dinners, theatre thee,…)

Here is a little video that I liked a lot that represents India to a certain extend. However, I think it uses a lot of stereotypes about India that aren’t always true, but I can show it to give some kind of idea of where I live now (; 

A day in India 

Also, 2 MUWCI-students went to a congress in London where all UWC’s come together to talk about issues in the UWC-movement and what we can do about it and also to represent the different UWC’s and show them to each other. For this congress, we made a little video which gives a good image about MUWCI-students (: 

Lastly, and at least as important, there is big news on MUWCI! The people who spent a lot of time watching the nature and diversity on campus found out that there is some kind of jungle cat on campus. We haven’t actually seen it yet, but all the puppies disappeared, 2 big dogs disappeared and we found excreta that shows that it lives here. It could be any kind of jungle cat, but the people who are kind of into animals and know a lot about it (ess teachers etc) say that it could be a leopard. So at night no one can walk around alone and the guards are paired up for their shifts. I don’t think we should be too scared though because it is also very scared of humans and no one saw it yet…

Well, this is it for today, in a few days I will tell you about my exeat (;

XOXO,

Pauline