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Student Experiences Indonesia and Australia (2016) - Brigitte van den Bergh Scandinavia Haaga Helia University of Applied Sciences (Vierumäki), Finland Website: http://www.haaga-helia.fi/en/frontpage The top university of Finland is the Haaga-Helia. The university owns multiple locations through Finland. All Sport bachelor degrees are held at the campus of Vierumäki, a town just north of Lahti. Where a town can be great at. The facility is breathing sports. That is a reason that the International Ice Hockey Centre of Excellence is also located here. Though it is the official training and education centre of the Olympic Committee of Finland. Studying at Finland is a great challenge to develop yourself. The Haaga-Helia is offering three bach- elor degree programs regarding Sports. As exchange student you can select your own courses out of these programs. The course list of these programs can be found here. Just click on the program, then on ‘course list’. For more information about studying at the Haaga-Helia, click on this link. Application deadline: Autumn/Winter semester ‘17: May 1st, 2017 Spring/Summer semester ‘18: November 1st, 2017 Start semester: Autumn/Winter semester ‘17: August 14th, 2017 Spring/Summer semester ‘18: January 15th, 2018 Credit points: Two semesters: 60 ECTS. One semester: 30 ECTS Language(s): English (B1). Finnish is helpful, but not required Language test needed? Yes (English) 37 “My beautfiul time in Yogakarta and Australia” “It was February 2016 when Jelco Witteveen and I went to Indonesia for our graduation project. We did an internship at an international college in Yogakarta. Wow, this was so great to do. Not only the college that offered our internships. Everything around that made it a fantastic experience. The culture, the food, the nature and the people... Just wow. We were working five days per week from 7:30 till 16:30. The heat made it hard, but luckily we had airco in our office! Half the week we were teaching in gym and health lessons (always outside in more than 30+ degrees). In the other half we were working on our thesis. Teaching in gym was the best way to get to know the children. Thanks to this we could adapt our knowledge of the children lifestyle in the health lessons. My thesis was about the measurement of the current physical activity at the schoolyard. Based on the results I created an advice report with a décor of the new campus schoolyard. I have also asked the children to create their ideal schoolyard. It was magnificent to see the fantasy of the children. Every week we had two days off. We always tried to make use of it by visiting all the fantastic sights in Indonesia. Every weekend was special. We climbed a volcano in the middle of the night and walked down beautiful white beaches on the islands near Karimunjawa. I can’t describe how won- derful these experiences were. After finishing our thesis’s Jelco and I had time to do some- thing else. We had already decided to travel with a car/camper through Australia for a month. An amazing time and some- thing which I can recommend to everyone who is just gradu- ated. There is so much more to tell. If you would like to hear more, you can always mail me: [email protected] I wish you all the best with your bachelor!” 38