 I'm currently studying a Bachelor's of Arts Psychology with a Bachelor's of Laws at Macquarie University and I'm in my final semester. I found out about the New Colombo Plan scholarship through a mentor at my university. There are multiple reasons why I selected Singapore as the destination to undertake my NCP experience. I knew that the National University of Singapore, Berkeley was the number one ranked university in Asia and it had a really highly regarded law program. The second reason was because I knew that Singapore was a major financial hub in the Indo-Pacific region and finally because I knew that Singapore was a melting pot of three different cultures and I was really interested in experiencing that. As part of my New Colombo Plan experience I undertook study for a semester at the National University of Singapore and following that I undertook two internships. The first was with Telstra and it was an internship with the legal team and the second internship was with BHP Billiton and that was with the procurement team. I think the New Colombo Plan is not just an opportunity to deeply understand the Indo-Pacific region, it's actually an opportunity to develop personal skills like adaptability, resilience and confidence and these are skills which are necessary no matter what you pursue. So now I'm back in Sydney and in my final year of university I recently accepted a graduate offer at Clifford Chance which is a global commercial law firm and I really do believe that my experience with the New Colombo Plan in particular my internship experiences with BHP Billiton and Telstra really paved the way. I'm a paralegal and I assist the litigation and dispute resolutions team. On a day-to-day basis my tasks generally include legal research, preparing briefs to council, delivering documents to court. The cultural immersion that I experience in Singapore will really assist my work. For example at an international law firm where the work that we do on a daily basis involves officers in Singapore and Hong Kong and where we are interacting and working with colleagues from across the Indo-Pacific region on a daily basis. One of the things I love about the New Colombo Plan is that the recipients of the scholarship truly reflect the diversity of the Australian community. The New Colombo Plan fostered my academic, professional and personal development. There's no other way to describe this experience other than transformative.