We began our day by listening to Rohan Holland from Ready Grad, a graduate recruitment development company, who delivered a workshop called “Goal Setting & Attainment” to a group of students as part of the Horizon Awards program. We squeezed in a quick lunch after this, and ran our workshop again, “The Swedish Work Culture & More”. 24 students signed up to attend and 16 came in addition to a handful of staff members. This group was even more engaged than yesterdays’; they asked many questions, and a some stayed after to chat with us. Malin even received a request by one of the students to meet her on Monday to discuss the possibility of studying at Malmö University. Rohan stayed and listened to our workshop, and held another one directly after ours ended. It was a career workshop kind of a day at Flinders University. We noticed that some of the students stayed on to listen to all three workshops in a row; now that’s dedication!
After this, we finally got to meet “our” students – one was a Swedish student nearing the end of his exchange from Malmö University at Flinders, and 3 were Flinders students eagerly anticipating their Erasmus + exchange to Malmö University. Johan, the Swedish student, comes from GPS, and the other three will be joining the GPS institution when they come to Malmö. We had a lovely dialogue and exchange outside, since we finally got “Adelaide weather – 25c, blue skies, and sunny”. We had the opportunity to learn a bit more about one another, and concluded our conversation by informing the students that we will set up a time to meet once they are situated and settled in Malmö.
Since we haven’t had the opportunity to walk around campus yet, and our stay here is slowly coming to a close, we decided to take a quick stroll around. Wow, what a spacious campus, surrounded by a forest, with parrots flying around everywhere. Although we saw parrots galore, we did not have any koala bear sightings. Maybe tomorrow! This campus is so large, that they even have their own university bus transport system. Quite impressive!
Given the gorgeous weather we were handed today, we seized the opportunity to go to the seaside town of Glenelg after our day at the university. We had a nice stroll down the little shopping street, and stayed long enough to catch the awesome sunset!
