I finished my report for the HKU about the period in Sweden. I also want to make some structure in the blogg. Therefore I have put all messages in four categories, based on what my first teacher there wrote about studying in another country.
an academic journey
a cultural journey
an intellectual journey
and an emotional journey
Next to these [...]
As usual, the last period of the year, you’re sitting inside working for school, and outside the summer is playing with other people, not with me.
Well, not completely true of course :) I just finished my last course here, handed in the research paper. I did a research about ‘doing nothing’. About the time people [...]
In the second-last week we had the presentations of the last course, an open research project. It was quite interesting, what kind of research questions people had came up with, and nice to present my own results.
One research was investigating the (Hofstede’s) culture dimensions (like individualism – collectivism, femininity – masculinity, long-term – short-term orientation) [...]
So.. Where to go from now? What do I want to do?
Do I still want to continue with HKU? I’m not thát sure anymore. Although it might not be bad for me and also give me a nice few projects again. (Something practical finally! I’m quite done with the theory here..)
I found the Interactive Institute [...]
School is getting interesting again (the last course was less I think). I’m now preparing a research about time, investigating how people spend their time in between the things they do. I hope to get something more about possible ‘doing nothing’ time.
The last few weeks I’ve noticed that I look differently at the trip to [...]
Am I that stressed that I feel that all stress course teachers talk too slow?
A new course started this week, Conflict and Stress Management. We’re having lectures three times a week, a bit more practical than the previous courses. I like that, I can use some down-to-earth things with other things (read Frida :)) going sky-high. I have to get used to this teacher a bit, the atmosphere in [...]
The current course is about leadership. Before I hoped it was a bit about personal leadership or a kind of flat leadership in which the leader is just another role in a project, like a chairman. As Marinka (my coordinator from HKU) already hinted it might not be that case. And it isn’t. We do [...]
In my current course, Leadership Development and Communication, we had to work in a group to make a change (yes, we can) inside an organization. After wanting to change the world via different UN bodies we came up with the idea to bring small bags of chips – common in the UK – to the [...]
Not much activity on my blogg lately. I’ve been ‘doing nothing’, feels very good :)
For my last course – which I finished with a ‘pass with distinction’ grade, the highest possible – I had to write a book review and I reviewed ‘A Geography of Time‘ by Robert Levine. Levine describes very interesting differences between [...]
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