My First Entry

Let's get started

So this will be the first post in my first blog - no pressure. I will make it long, so that you dear reader can get the hang of it - because usually that's what I do as my dear penfriends (or rather e-mailfriends) already know.

So as I promised this blog will tell you about my abroad experiences. Well right now I'm headed for Australia.

A little bit about the why and how and all that

I was always curious about different cultures, different parts of the world, and as my father I can't spend too much time in the same circumstances... So it was written that something has got to go... This something for me was a complete change of everything.

I started to look for exchange programs and scholarships that will allow me to spend a semester abroad. I applied to 2 at the end, and actually won both of them, and at the final say I choose Australia. All the reasons sided with this one, even though the other - American - scholarship was a good opportunity as well.

I will be studying at UTS (=University of Technology Sydney - don't let the name misguide you, it's not a strictly tech university) with a full course load of 24 credits (The Australian websites all say that this is not easy at all, and that these credits can be converted to ECTS credits with a 1.5 multiplier - and that means they are worth more than a Hungarian semester at BME (at least creditwise) even though I will only have 12 hours of school weekly... :) - I have already started to sweat.)

I got a UTS Business Scholarship with some grant money and a waiver to my uni fees - which is a big thing hence a semester would cost around 15-30 thousand $ That said it's also important that because of this I can only take courses held by the Business Faculty, which is a good thing for me, hence I've got enough informatics, and engineering during my Bachelors - thanks BME :) (or BUTE as they call it everywhere other than Hungary) I will write some more about that when I will my courses start in just a few weeks, because in Australia the semester - which will be the spring semester there - starts with July the 30th.

I think that for now this will be all with that, since this is only a starter entry, so I wouldn't have to send around an empty blog's address.

Where will I be, how will I go

So now that you know all that a detailed travel itinery about this trip - mainly because I still have the motivation to write it, and probably with time passing by they will get shorter and shorter anyway.

I will set off at 15:00 local time from Budapest Ferihegy International Airport (which is now called Liszt Ferenc International Airport, but never mind...) first to Frankfurt, but only to change planes and set sail - or wings or I don't know what we say for airplanes - to Bejing and with another quick transfer to Sydney the destination of my current journey. If all goes well, I will land on the 14th of July around 7am local time.

But now I have to have an intermediary break, because I am actually swamped with todo-s before I start, and that will be in roughly 12 hours...