My name is Evan A. Nilsen, I come from Norway.
I study IT with a focus on Computer Science
in town called Kristiansand and the
university is called the University of Acfid.
I've always wanted to go to Australia
and then I saw we have this opportunity
to go on exchange through my university.
So I just checked the possibilities and
then I saw that Australia was a
possibility. Living and studying
in Perth has been great.
It feels so close to home but still very
very different because it's, I mean it's
a Western country but it's not in the West.
Studying here at Curtin University has
been very good.
Yeah I enjoy it. The campus is beautiful.
I enjoy spending a lot of time just
walking around, studying at the library,
labs, computer labs and then when I need a break
it's such a big campus and so much to see
that you can put on some headphones and walk around.
It's been a very different
experience from what I'm used to, but in
a good way that is. Because you're never
bored, there's always people to see,
because of the big campus here,
there's always something to do because
for me there's like, I haven't seen it all
still and I've been here for six months.
Everybody told me that watch out
for all the deadly animals, but I
haven't seen any. Studying at Curtin
has shown me that, life at a
university doesn't just have to be
inside the library. Because I've been sitting
outside library in the beanbags,
spending a lot of time just soaking in
the sun and watching people just walking by.
Then there's all the different food
vans that actually change up every day.
It feels like there's always something
new to do. It's beautiful just to walk around
and see everything,
yeah Curtin is really good. I've met a bunch
of people from different backgrounds,
both professors, the tutors in the
different units and my flatmates, just
as I said I live in student housing.
So there's a lot of different people with
different backgrounds. My university back
at home doesn't really have a campus.
It's got one cafeteria and a coffee machine
and people they just stay there to study.
They don't stay there because they
want to relax or talk to people,
which you really can do at Curtin.
Curtin does this buddy thing, I don't
know, buddy program I guess. So they all
set us up with buddies and through
our buddy or my friends buddy actually,
but we've gotten to meet a lot of
Australians and going out with them and
hanging out with them,
so we are not only seeing internationals
but also Australians, and they've been great.
I've been around Perth and seen
Elizabeth Quay and all that, which is great.
But I got the opportunity to take a road
trip in the first tuition free week,
where we went up to Shark Bay.
I got to see the vast
nothingness that is Australia.
I mean it's just a small part but
still I feel like I've seen so much.
I'm always going to remember all the time I
spent here on campus because I've never
done that back in Norway. But the most
memorable part must have been
the road trip.
Yeah just seeing all the different nature
and all the sites to be seen on the road.
I would say exchange in general is great
just do it, but especially coming to
Australia and of course I would recommend Curtin.