First get together between HAN, MAYA & us

On monday, the 16^th January, we had our first meeting with all the important people who work on our project.

Jörgen Tönnesen, a lectuter from the HAN, made his first contact with the guys from the “Stichting-Maya” Project.

We had a cup of coffee and talked about our planes, our interests and our idea for the project and what is possible to convert.

Rene and Jerome told us, that our originally length of stay wouldn´t be able to realize because of the raining weather in this time at Nepal.

So, together with Jürgen, we talked about alternatives.

It would be possible to go there at the beginning of September till the middle of November.

Rene and Jerome checked this date, and so they could give us a secure commitment.

This meeting was a big step going nearer and nearer to our big target. Now we have a fix time, when our journey can start.

At the end of this meeting you could see a big relief in all our eyes. It was very nice to know, that the project now is already well planed and we had consent from a lecturer of the HAN.

On this day, we made a big step in direction to Nepal.

El Salvador Project Team Presentation

Today we visited the presentation from a group of students that spend two months in El Salvador carrying out a project as a part of their studies at the HAN. It was quite a frightening event if you consider us helding a similar presentation about our project one year from now on.
They had put a lot of effort in their project and shared it with us by showing loads of photo and video captures. They also interacted with the audience which made things really interesting. On stage they build up a cage with real chicken and used that area as part of their role playing.

In the break we had a conversation with Simon Gebert who was part of that project team. We asked him about the the greatest problem and nicest experience they faced during their work on the project. He mentioned that they had a couple of fights that were triggered by the fact that they had to live together on such narrow ground. But he was amazed by how many new and great experiences he made getting to know a culture that lives a completely different life compared to us. We believe that we probably also will experience those aspects and are glad to be warned in advance.

So all in all it was a stunning occurrence that helped us realize what we are heading for during our work on the project. We could catch some basic presentation methods that we could put into good use for our own presentation.

Discussing...

Our new shoutbox!

Do you have something in mind, wanna tell everybody in the team but cant reach anyone?
... just shout it out and they can read it later!

From today on we can click on "Shout" to get up to date with the newest ideas posted by other team members.

MINOR ONLY!

During the last two weeks it became clear that most people are only interested in the foreign minor... that's actually quite frustrating! Now we spend so much time in finding new members for the team and there are only a few left that want to leave the country in their project period. But you know what: We are not about to give up yet! Until today our member count reads 3 (Carina, Thomas and Daniel)

PS: Info meeting with Jürgen Tönnesen was really helpful. We could find out more about general requirements.

Determined!

All interested students will meet up with Jürgen Tönnesen upcoming monday and tuesday...

Succeeded...again!

Perfect! So the two meetings are over and we wrote down some notes about everybody. Interesting people! And we all shared the same feeling...excitement!...about going abroad. We also have all the contact information we need to stay in touch with everybody. The upcoming days we're gonna be busy checking all of them out and find the right people for the project.

Most people requested more information about the 4th year of studying than we could offer. Since all of these questions also got stuck up in our heads now we are going to arrange a meeting with Jürgen Tönnesen. As a coordinator of an abroad minor he will be able to answer most of our questions.