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INTERNATIONAL
School introductory
programmes well-received
In Deventer the HOI orientation days took place
on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 August. The HOI
organization provided food, shelter, information
and entertainment for first year students,
among them some international students who
had signed up for the programme. Sax asked
some of them about their experiences.
Generally speaking the parties and the music were most appreciated. Three
Chinese final year Marking students, Huan (Cao Tianzhou) Karl (Xu Fei)
and Figo (Ye Fei), went to Monday night’s party held at Brink; “Exciting performers,
fantastic dancing, great to join in.” Polish MIM exchange students
Mateusz Pietnyk and Anna Swierke had been to the party held on Tuesday
night for a few hours: a good mix of styles, pop, dance, techno, et cetera.” The
German Tourism students Christine Siebrecht, Sandra Nolte, Julia
Vieratschker and Laura Kitza especially enjoyed meeting “so many nice people.
The music was ok, perhaps a bit too much Techno.”
Only Dutch
Christine and her friends were “disappointed” about the fact that a lot of the
information provided was not in English but instead, in Dutch only, so they
felt it was primarily geared to Dutch-speaking students. “Before we joined
they gave us the impression that it was also meant for international students.
The welcome speech was not even in English.”
Paola Loubli, MIM student from Guadeloupe, appreciated that the orientation
also involved the town of Deventer presenting itself with stalls on De
Brink, which was something she was not used to in other places she studied,
such as France.
School introduction
The school introductory programmes that mostly took place on the same
days as the HOI orientation went down very well. Cao Tianzhou describing
the orientation of the School of Marketing and International Management:
“We met some teachers and our mentor and we got an excellent presentation
on business like communication.” For Anaita-Joana Prodanescu and
Maxim Monastirschi, MIM students from Romania, getting an introductory
programme was something they were not used to in their own country. It
was clear to them that they could expect “another system of education and
a different culture.”
On Thursday the Deventer MIM students joined their Enschede counterparts
for a day trip to The Hague.
Hannie Schipper
Photo: Auke Pluim
32 september 2008