A Blog about Education Abroad

Category: Semester Exchange Postings

Blog Postings by Returning Stellenbosch University Students

  • Talitha at the National Taiwan University

    Talitha at the National Taiwan University

    Visa:

    A few weeks before leaving for Taiwan, I went to the Liaison Office of Taiwan in Cape Town to apply for a Taiwanese Visa. Required: two photos, the acceptance letters from NTU, a flight ticket and proof of financial support. The process went smoothly, except that the official changed my application from that for a multiple-entry visitor visa to that for a resident visa, stating that I would need the latter for a stay of such length as mine. A few days later, the visa was ready and I was good to go.

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  • Helgard in Amsterdam

    Helgard in Amsterdam

    This document is an extended thank you note to everybody that made it possible for me to go on exchange to the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam for six months in 2014. It gives some feedback on my experience and how much it meant to me. My thanks goes to the lecturers, fellow students and international office at the VU for their hospitality in hosting me. I am deeply grateful to the Studiefonds Stichting at the Zuid-Afrika Huis in Amsterdam who’s generosity made it financially possible, but also for their kind reception in Amsterdam. Thank you finally to the PGIO at Stellenbosch University for their support on all terrains and for putting their faith in me as an ambassador for the university.
    Here is why I am so grateful…

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  • An Engineering Internship

    Here follows Andrew’s experience of doing an engineering internship in Germany.

    As the nature of my involvement with the exchange program with Georg Simon Ohm differs from the standard student exchange arrangement, I have decided to try and write my blog entries as more informative pieces.

    I start by describing the process I followed to get the internship with Siemens and the problems experienced in doing so. This is followed by an account of my journey to Germany and to Ruhstorf where I am doing my internship. Finally I describe some of the good and bad points of settling into a small town in Germany and give a brief account of what it has been like to work at Siemens.

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