Reflective
paper from Thai exchanged students
First of all, we would like to say thank you to Hanoi University of pharmacy (HUP) for hosting us. We really enjoy learning in HUP with many
great students from this university. Before we came here, we thought that one
month is too long to stay aboard. Actually,
when we spent our moments here, we think one month is too short for
having great moments like this. All of the classes which we attended
are really good. HUP arranged the class for
us appropriately. So, when we were here,
great friends and great moments never
make us got homesick or felt bored.
About lessons that you provided
for us, we think you arranged the
schedule very well. Starting
from Pharmacoeconomics is a good idea. In this class, we got many friends
including Vietnamese
friends and Malaysian friends. We learnt many things from this class that
we never learnt in Thailand before. We appreciate
the way that you let us present our information from our own country. We
think this is the best way to exchange
knowledge and culture between each other.
In our opinion, we do like topics which you prepared for us because we
think that all topics are related to pharmacist roles and we can apply this
knowledge to our pharmacist’s life.
The
class about the critical thinking is very beneficial for us. We like the way
that you taught us think critically by using the real health issues.
About
sightseeing at pharmaceutical market, we would like to suggest that you should
have a certain plan for us before visiting there. So, we could get some points
and prepared ourselves better.
About the traditional medicine class, we feel really thankful that the
teacher spent his summer break for teaching us. The class looks like a private
class which had
only two teacher and six students. The teacher had prepared the good handouts
which easy to understand and full of details about traditional medicine. And he
had taught us everything we need to know about of Vietnamese traditional
medicine including history, theories,
herbs and so on. We really impressed
in his enthusiasm in teaching. Overall about this class is great but we also
have some suggestion as well. We suggest
that you should change the classroom where we used for study because the
sitting position was not so good for learning.
About
visiting at Nam Dược factory, we do like so much because this visiting can
illustrate us about the system in the traditional medicine factory well.
Studying in Botany
class gave us a chance to experience new lessons. The contents which we had learnt are quite different
from what we have learnt before. The teachers in this
department are so nice , actually
all teachers here are very nice.
We had a really good time in Sapa. This is
our first time to do something like this including going into the forest,
collecting the plants from their habitats and eating the traditional foods from
Dao’s people. This class is the last
class that we attended and it also gives us the last best memory before we go
back to Thailand. We also have some
suggestion for this class as well. We think
that you should notify us about the plan and activity in Sapa before we go
there at least one week. It could be more comfortable for us to prepare
ourselves. Going into the forest in Sapa is quite adventurous for us as
beginners. Although it was our bad luck that there was heavily rain in all
three days we spent in Sapa, we still feel safe because of the help from
teacher and friends.
Our
daily lives here are wonderful. We spent
most of time with friends who we got from the class.
Both Vietnamese and Malaysian
friends are very nice. We always feel
happy to have them. Particular of Vietnamese friends often recommend us the
foods, the tourist attractive places, and also help us to communicate with Vietnamese
people. They always escort us
when we want to go somewhere and help us about the transportation. We really
feel appreciative that they become our friends. Eventhough our
time to spend together is too short, our friendships continue and last.
Eventually, living as exchange student in
Hanoi University of pharmacy in Vietnam is
better to experience once than hear about it a thousand times. Three weeks in
HUP are very meaningful for us. Every second here are priceless and fulfilled
our purpose of being exchange student. We would
like to say thanks to the destiny which brought us to HUP and let us had good
times and great friends like this. We hope
that we will soon have a chance to visit here again, and we will definitely
recommend our juniors to become exchange students here.
Aujana Yangsabai Kansiri Apinantanakul
Exchange student from Mahidol university, Thailand Student Exchange Program in ASEAN 2018