 Hi, I'm Oglaya Furwe. I'm a Surinamese and I'm studying hydrology and water resources here at IHE. I'm a second year master's student. Studying at IHE Delft was pretty much a whole new experience for me. It's totally different than studying back home and a highlight for me was actually when I successfully finished the first part of this study and passed to do my, to start my research. I start to do my research study now and my research I'm conducting in Uganda and I'm doing an assessment of the impacts of urbanization and climate change on the groundwater balance of Kampala in Uganda. We went on a field trip as a part of our research program and that was actually a nice experience. We went to Italy and southern France. It was very nice in terms of learning two different languages, especially in doing our field work. We had to conversate with people and these people were only talking French basically. So that was a really nice experience and I enjoyed it. If I could give somebody advice to do a master's study at IHE Delft, I would say it is a really good opportunity to do it because especially if it's somebody from outside the Netherlands because it's a total different community also at IHE. It's like the world at a small space and I would highly recommend doing a master's study at IHE. Studying in Delft is like I experienced the city from like another side like different than being a tourist in the Netherlands and what I think about Delft, if I compare it to other cities of the Netherlands, it's like really a student city and but I still like it in terms of if I go to Amsterdam or Rotterdam those places are more crowded at IHE there's like a multi-cultural aspect because of the fact that there are people from all around the world and it's a really good opportunity to learn from all the other cultures because you experience the differences of the other cultures but also I found some similarities between let me say my culture and how we do some things and in our part of the world like in Suriname and South America and the Caribbean and like other parts of the world so that was like one of the things I really appreciated about this multi-cultural environment at IHE. I also had the opportunity to participate in a couple of social events at IHE for instance the sports day that was a famous one I joined the woman football team where we had I think the third place and I also joined the running team of the IHE we were champion there that was really nice and another nice things are the social nights where you have different parts of the world performing their culture and for us it was also really nice because I think it was the first time that there was like a big Caribbean community performing so we did our best really hard and it was like a really nice evening so the social events are like another part of IHE where you like come together as students to learn from each other.