 My experience in IHDF has been very good. I've learned a lot about what I wanted to learn about dealing with wastewater. All the things that are related with it, you know, not only like the technical part, but I think it was very good because it allows me to go deep in this kind of technical knowledge, but also allowed me to meet people from all over the world to have different experience, to grow in other aspects in life that in other parts you cannot find. I will definitely recommend somebody else to study here at IHDF, not only because of the scientific knowledge that you get here, but also about the knowledge you get from the experiences you have with other cultures and other people. I did my research in Zambia for my thesis and I was trying to understand the gender norms. So how do men, women, children and different sections of the society perceive what issues differently. So it was more about me living in a very small remote village in Zambia and trying to understand the issues. And it was very real, like in that study I realized something like it's not just the experts who know who can diagnose a water issue, but also the people who are undergoing a problem. They are also the one who have equal say and weightage in what exactly the issue is. My research is at the nexus of social sciences and technical science. So it goes more into water provisioning but water access. So how do men, women, children have access to water differently? And looking at water problem through gender lens is very relevant and actually very urgent in our societies because it's not just the experts who can diagnose a water problem, but also the real people who are more connected to the issue and their voices and what do they think and what do they feel is a real problem. So it's not just relevant but it's very urgent. I studied environmental science with specialization in environmental planning, implementation and planning. And in environmental planning and management here I study identifying our problems then making our plans and executing our plans and which is very relevant to hydropower. And also while doing my thesis as of now I have learnt a lot in QGIS, modelling tools and our statistics like doing a statistic with R and that will be very relevant to my future career like if I want to focus on PhD so that will be very much helpful. So it has been very relevant to me. I have learnt lots of lessons in IG here like being a humble is a great. For example just citing example rector here. Actually he is a very learned man, he has a lot of knowledge and he deserves our respect but then I can see him like just coming to a coffee machine to get his own coffee and if a line is very long and he waits in a queue just to get his coffee and that is very great like very humble so I feel like being humble is great so that is the lesson that I am going to take being very humble. The overall experience at IHG DELP has been pretty overwhelming I believe. I have got to meet a lot of people from across the globe and it is really great to interact with different people and different professors from different backgrounds where we can share knowledge across our fields and across our backgrounds. So I think it has really offered me an edge to be a part of this global community and speak about water and the issues in our countries back home so that we can implement what we learn here. I really got to see how things work in real life how the organizations and stakeholders deal with each other and across other communities and across the common man so it was really a challenging experience to assess how they bring their knowledge across the other platforms and how they have to manage the political situation of water and assessing that and analyzing that in a very critical manner was a really helpful part for me during the course of the field work. This study will assist me to participate actively in the research programs and to affect the student learning positively and it has also equipped me with knowledge that is required of me in order to be suitable for academic environments My ambition is to become one of the leading faculty member in the leading university in Nigeria and in Africa All institutions that deals with water, IHE deft is the best The knowledge in class and the knowledge in the field trip cannot be acquired in any other institution so far If you want to become a water professional, IHE is the best. Before coming here to IHE I had been working as an assistant lecturer back in Nepal The master's degree that I pursued here has enriched my knowledge about the water science and specifically hydrology I hope I can transfer this knowledge to a greater master back in Nepal through teaching I did my research in Mozambique that's in southern Africa The research was about the small reservoir systems which are environmentally friendly for nature and I got this opportunity to see the African lifestyle, culture, taste, food It was really a nice experience for me As part of my master thesis I went to the field work in Palestine in the West Bank and there I had to contact many people that worked with the wastewater operation and management and the project is about decentralized treatment of wastewater and reclaimed water usage So it was very interesting to see their perception about it and also I call it like a crash course of diplomacy because I had to learn how to interact with such a different culture and understand their conflict and know how I can interact with them in the best way in order to get the information I needed and it was also a very positive personal experience in my life I think the most important lesson that I get from my HE is that people are people everywhere So if you are from another culture, from another religion or from another country and you have less or more experience than your colleague if you have common interests to solve an issue or to work together it will be possible to do if you have these common interests So that's what I learned and I really had to work a lot with people and I really loved that here Yeah, my field trip was very good because I had an opportunity to travel with a group of professionals actually my classmates were not ordinary students they were all professionals from different countries and we went to Spain, Portugal and I had an opportunity to visit the vegetable garden and the impact of that horticulture boom on environment especially over abstraction of groundwater So I saw the problems and how the experts are dealing with the problem and want to address the problem Yeah, what I'm studying currently is water management and governance It's very related to my job because in Afghanistan we have four major river basins which are shared with other countries So I've studied here water and environmental law which is very helpful for me to address the problem of sharing water between us and other countries