 My name is Meignam Karchi and I'm from India. There have been many. From being in an international environment, you know, making new friends, I never thought I would have friends from all over the globe. And being in a country which is, I think, so organised and disciplined, I think every day has been really new and really nice. They should go for it. I was very sure when I applied to IHE because if you have to study in the water sector, I think there is no better place than to come to IHE. You have the freedom to choose from different courses, to learn from different people, different disciplines. I had literally no knowledge of water, just my work experience of doing two years of research in the water sector. I think whoever is thinking of applying to IHE should definitely do it. It's worth the experience. So I went to Tanzania, actually not the most part of Tanzania near Lake Victoria, in a very small town called Musoma. It was a kind of a proof of concept that I had to study for my thesis. My main actual focus is building a conceptual framework and then testing it on ground. I had conducted lots of research and field work in India and I've met many women and I've interacted with them. But over here it was stark difference compared to how women lived and what were their main income source and how they portrayed their whole life. I was doing gender studies, so I was looking into the gender relations over there and how women get their livelihood income sources and how can that be improved. There you see women taking responsibilities. There is actually no woman over there who is not working or not taking responsibility of their own life. Even for commercial farming, you see mostly the women involved in substance farming. These are some of the findings which I got and I intend to use it in my thesis. There is this thing in IHE where no matter what they teach you in class what you get in paper is very practical based and actually that helps you in developing more knowledge. I never thought I would be able to have friends who are not Indians but now I could boast and I'm really happy that if I have to call anyone after I go away from here they will still be there. Since we all this 2018-2020 batch we will always be together knit in this water family.