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will be answering in detail, the response is also fast. At Australia National University, the lecturers are willing to give their time to the students, they teach until the students get it right.
Friends From All Over The World
At ANU, Brena meets her new friends from all over the world. Starting from classmates, friends from organizations on campus,
and from PPIA
“halal”, “vegetarian”, “vegan”, and “dairy products”, so everyone out there is well accommodated.
“Actually it’s pretty easy to find halal food and safe to eat. If you want to eat in the restaurant, no need to doubt, just ask to the waiter of restaurant and they will gladly tell if its halal or not. And most of all I’m happy because there is a halal market where they sell halal meat,” remarked Brena. Australians are very welcome
(Indonesian Student Association of Australia). The campus library is open 24 hours. Submit assignment is also just simply uploaded to the student portal which is very effective because nowadays it should be paperless.
Brena and her friends wearing traditional outfit from Indonesia
with moslems.
Their tolerance in the religion and culture aspect is also high. Not only being active in college
as a post graduate students, Brena also participated in the organization PPIA (Indonesian Student Association of
Australia).
Sometimes Brena feels
homesick. “If I feel homesick. So I’m looking for a distraction like going out of the house. I’m jogging, doing a little exercise, capturing landscape, because I like photographs,” stated the 25-year-old female student.
Apparently, looking for halal food is quite easy. In Australia, there is always a description for each food served. For example, such as
Brena also gives her motivation. “Many people said, seek
knowledge even unto China. There are many things out there that you have to race and try. Many things you should see and feel by yourself, like how to live and study abroad,
learn to mingle with other people out there. If you go abroad for continue your study, you’ll get a better quality of education.”
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