 The most important lesson or let me call it the life lesson that I've learned in ISC is definitely has to be the teamwork skills. There was not a single module in my in my subject where there was not a group module group works. It was quite challenging sometimes but at the same time it helped me learn how to excel my best when you are provided with the works in any of the circumstances, how to excel my best in terms of the productivity, how to excel my best in terms of the performance by deepening my understanding and that also at the same time incorporating everyone's perspective everyone's ideas and everyone's thought and delivering the task in time. I think this is one of the most important skills for my academic career and the future The time that I've been here I when I took this job I was an engineer and a civil engineer in the Ministry of Agriculture in my country and when I came here I had been working in the drain engineering sector and one of the things one of the problems we have is is modeling. We can't do modeling because we don't have ground data and a lot of the work that we've done here is how to build models how to get free data from you know satellites and whatnot and to make that work and it's very important for developing countries because it's very expensive to invest in the sensing equipment and whatnot but here you have all this free data floating around in this guy quite literally and IHG teaches you how to make the most of that how to use existing tools how to build on them how to improve those tools to adapt them to circumstances in your country and your profession so that's one of the things I think will be very useful for my job. What I will say to anyone thinking to take a master's at UNESCO IH is that one the programs here are well structured and they align to provision of solution to the current problems in in water across the world then number two the staff here is great we have quite a number of visiting lectures here who are well known in their specialized field and then finally they catch we have a cultural diversity around so it's a wonderful experience studying here. My favorite class was advanced water treatment and they were used and it's actually on desalination technology and membrane it was interesting for me because before I came is an area of interest for me and I've had a passion for membranes in trying to treat water salty water and brackish water and also to reuse it so for me it was the best because I also had an interest to do an MSc thesis on it so it was the best. What inspired me most in the study here was looking at SDGs. SDGs is very important as the development agenda for next 15 years and goal 6 which deals with water I think most of the SDG goals about seven of them so they relate to water and it's very important to study water so that we back in Pacific seeds we need to manage our water resources so that we are able to do our development policies such that it aligns to water is very important back at home yeah. I am on a siege fellowship and water resources in Pacific islands we have different types of islands so we have different water resources associated with the islands we have low-lying islands like I told we have we only have groundwater we have volcanic islands where we have both groundwater and surface water so management of this resources are different we can though the techniques are same but development plans and management are different so coming at IHE it provides you the holistic way of how to manage water resources both in terms of groundwater, surface water alternative water source. For me the highlights of studying in UNESCO are both the quality of education is really really good and the teachers are great and they help you a lot and you can see the different perspectives but also for me what's really important is that is the students the diversity of the cultures and the mixture and interacting and the social life is really important for me so I think that those two points are the highlights right here. The experiences in terms of the academics is something you cannot get anywhere else I know that if I've gone to another place I wouldn't have got this because I have friends at different countries studying so the experience, class work, field visits and laboratory practices is you can't match it anywhere else this is the best place to be if you want to have anything to do with water education. At the center of our engagement with all of these issues is the UNESCO IHE Institute for Water Education a unique global facility that educates and trains professionals and organizations across the globe to develop knowledge skills and capacity. The Institute is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world since it was founded in 1957 it has trained more than 14,500 water professionals from 160 countries. At the heart of the program are four MSc courses in water management, environmental science, urban water and sanitation and water science and engineering attended by about 200 students annually. Talking about the multicultural environment at the Institute I think we all know that UNESCO IHE is a world in itself. My train of thoughts after coming here has certainly brought on I have actually developed the you know the better knowledge of everyone's thought others believe and also increased the cultural awareness of course. I definitely have learned much more than what the course book has to offer. So I think I'm taking away the most amazing experience and which is a very rare experience of studying alongside the best people of the world and which who wants to give back to the community regardless of where they come from regardless of the color regardless of the nationality I think which is amazing. The multicultural environment here it teaches you a lot of things but one of my favorite things out of it would be the food. I've tasted food from all over the world Africa Asia the other places in the Caribbean the US Europe and I found a lot of similarities some interesting differences and it's so amazing to find those you know that somebody prepares a dish almost exactly like you do at home from a place that's 6,000 miles away and they've never heard of yours and you've never heard of theirs but it tastes like almost the same. To be part of student association board as a vice chairperson it's an amazing experience because you become voice of the student. I live in a student house called it's Amina Cruz Manstrat and it's entirely IHE students so it's a very warm friendly place there are a lot of get-togethers I don't know if you'd call them fights we love to share we have to share all these common rooms when it comes to the group work but every time there's a party or an event somebody's got a dinner people just show up chairs show up you know food shows up things just come and it turns into a lovely event and there's so much going on at Amina. About Delft that I need to get used to most I think I still don't own a bike I'm not biking right now so I'm still walking I think that's something I need to get used to before I leave I I tried to learn but then I said it's okay I should work that's something I need to get used to it's it's quite different back at home where we walk a lot so yeah that's something I need to get used to. I'm living in a seasonal vanstrat and this is a really awesome housing we have a lot of facilities it's complete we have washing machine we have microwave and we will share the kitchens and also the bathroom with two more students and there we also like have a conversations as spending a free time together. The city Delft is a beautiful city it's real calm and quiet but at the same time there's a lot of social movements and there's a lot of concerts as there are a lot of students living here because okay there's UNESCO and there's two Delfts so we can all hang out together there's a lot of cultural and activities and that's really good and what's also really good about Delft is that it's really well located so it's in a point that you can actually are close to most of the things so you can travel a lot.