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Hey everyone, 

So someone asked me if I get bored by the location of the school. I think this is something really important as our location is kind of isolated. However, I would like to say that this is MY opinion and you never know how you would feel about it. 

So as you know I live on a hill, 1 hour away from Pune. This means that most of the time we live on our hill. This place is wonderful and really beautifull. Especially in the monsoon when everything is green, this place is like a paradise. Now that said it is true that sometimes you might get sick of this place because you live here 24/7 with the same environment, same people,... Of course there are a lot of opportunities to get of campus, for example your of-campus triveni's, going to Pune (This can be WHENEVER you want, but most people go on saturday) and even going down to Paud (the nearby village). For me living here is not that much of a problem because I don't mind being 'isolated'. I think this is related to the fact that I never really watched the news or read the newspaper etc. I guess if a third world war would happen we wouldnt know it. I mean; if you want to know what is going on "outside", you really have to start looking for it in the newspaper etc. But as I said, that's fine for me now. I do read the newspaper even though I didn't do it before to stay informed about what is happening in the world (and in Belgium), but I don't need to go down of the hill often. For some people though it is important that they can go down at least twice a month to get out of "the bubble of our hill". I can understand this and I think that's why it is good that our experience here only lasts 2 years. Another thing people sometimes like less is that you live in a closed community with +-200 other students. This means that for a whole year (and kind of the second year, but then you have new firstyears), you have to live with the same people. Because we don't have a lot of contact with the indigenous (sorry if this is not the right word, I only know the Dutch word for it) people, we only get to hang out with the same MUWCI-people over and over again. On the other side this can create really close relationships and friends that know everything about you. Also, just because it is such a small community you know that when you will do something everyone will end up knowing (even if you want to keep it secret), so this can be possitive because it can help you to do less stupid things or it can be negative as it is hard to keep secrets. 

I don't know if this answers your question. I hope it does, but feel free to ask me more. 

I just want to clarify that this is a wonderful place and that this message is not intended to sound negative at all. I hope I didn't scare anyone away. Even the people who find it harder to live kind of isolated would never give up their MUWCI-experience. I think it is just important that you realize that EVERY place has positive and negative sides and that it is up to you how you deal with them. I love this place and I certainly don't want you to think bad about it (; 

Oh and about if we feel like we have no life: It is always so busy here and we have so much to do that we don't really have time to get bored. 

Love. 

Pauline