{"id":4935,"date":"2018-01-08T11:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2018-01-08T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T00:52:49","slug":"malaysia-pre-departure-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/2018\/01\/08\/malaysia-pre-departure-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia: Pre-departure Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a weeks\u2019 time, I will be travelling to Malaysia with 11 other Flinders students to participate in the New Colombo Plan program, <em>Investigating the History, Culture, Politics, and Science and Technology Capability of Malaysia<\/em>. The program, which goes for 3 weeks, is run by the National University of Malaysia (UKM). For 2 weeks we will be staying on the campus of UKM just outside Kuala Lumpur and for 1 week at the Research centre on Langkawi.<\/p>\n<p>I had always planned to travel overseas but expected it would be after completing my studies. I\u2019d received emails about the New Colombo Plan mobility grant but hadn\u2019t realised I was eligible. However, after applications for this trip had closed, I noticed a post on FLO that 2 places had reopened and that I was actually eligible. Having the opportunity to travel overseas while studying would be amazing, so I put in an application and was lucky enough to be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my first time travelling overseas and I am very excited about it. I can\u2019t wait to experience another culture and meet new people. I expect, based on the blogs of the students who participated in the program last year, that this will be a once in a lifetime experience which I will never forget.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jessica Aylmore,\u00a0Bachelor of Science (Chemical Sciences)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>student, participating in \u201cInvestigating the history, culture, politics, and science and technology capability of \u00a0Malaysia\u201d funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dfat.gov.au\/people-to-people\/new-colombo-plan\/Pages\/new-colombo-plan.aspx\">New Colombo Plan<\/a>\u00a0in January 2018<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a weeks\u2019 time, I will be travelling to Malaysia with 11 other Flinders students to participate in the New Colombo Plan program, Investigating the History, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1059,"featured_media":4940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[28,829,182,194,196,295,307,678,347,366,379,418,430,459,497],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-experience-blogs","category-outbound-student-experiences","tag-amazing","tag-bachelor-of-science-chemical-sciences","tag-experience","tag-flinders-learn-without-borders","tag-flinders-university","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-lifetime-experience","tag-malay","tag-national-university-of-malaysia-ukm","tag-new-colombo-plan-scholarship","tag-opportunity","tag-scholarship","tag-short-term","tag-study-overseas","tag-ukm"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1059"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}