{"id":4972,"date":"2018-01-15T11:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2018-01-15T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:14:37","slug":"pre-departure-malaysia-new-colombo-plan-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/2018\/01\/15\/pre-departure-malaysia-new-colombo-plan-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-departure to Malaysia New Colombo Plan 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My bags are packed, my ticket is booked and I am feeling incredibly unprepared. In less than a week I will be in a different country, surrounded by another language and living with new people. I will be attending the Malaysian New Colombo Plan Grant program.<\/p>\n<p>As the days have grown closer, nervousness has begun to overshadow the bubbling excitement of exploring new places. I am arriving five days late into Kuala Lumpur due to family commitments and the feeling of arriving and travelling on my own is nerve wrecking. However, I am so excited to meet everyone and exploring a new culture. I have heard that Kuala Lumpur is the food capital of the world and I cannot wait to try their unique concoctions of herbs and spices.<\/p>\n<p>I am most looking forward to exploring the incredible wildlife on Langkawi island. I cannot wait for the field trip where we trek island\u2019s rain forest. I hope I am able to find some relevance to my degree within the field trips. I am planning on hopefully investigating the microbiology ecology within Malaysia. Although, I am sure the trip will teach me lessons outside of university. Sustainability is a world issue and I\u2019m glad it is highlighted throughout the program.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I cannot wait for what seems to be the opportunity of a life time where I get to explore a new place, experience a new culture and try many new things.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bridie Armour, Bachelor of Medical Science student, participating in \u201cInvestigating the history, culture, politics, and science and technology capability of Malaysia\u201d funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfat.gov.au\/people-to-people\/new-colombo-plan\/Pages\/new-colombo-plan.aspx\">New Colombo Plan<\/a> in January 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My bags are packed, my ticket is booked and I am feeling incredibly unprepared. In less than a week I will be in a different country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1072,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[971,178,182,194,198,295,296,347,970,355,357,379,385,430,972,497,701],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-experience-blogs","category-outbound-student-experiences","tag-ecology","tag-excitement","tag-experience","tag-flinders-learn-without-borders","tag-food","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-langkawi","tag-national-university-of-malaysia-ukm","tag-new-co","tag-new-colombo-plan","tag-new-culture","tag-opportunity","tag-outbound","tag-short-term","tag-sustainability","tag-ukm","tag-wildlife"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","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\/1072"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}