Ilya’s feedback
ILYA’S FEEDBACK
Education in New Zealand – personal experience or about the way it was.
Part 1. Prologue.
June 2013, Auckland, New Zealand. Four years have passed after the moment when I was dressed in a gown with a square academic hat, got the graduate’s diploma in Finance at Business School of Auckland University. I perfectly remember the range of emotions that I felt at the moment of graduation – pride, delight, joy and a feeling that all the doors are open for me now; and I really can call myself as a citizen of the world. It is worth to say that Auckland University, according to theusnews.comis ranked in the top 100 universities in the world, and the realization that your education is internationally recognized all over the world is incomparable with anything else. The feeling of flying, freedom, unlimited opportunities – all of it is worth to fight for and give yourself up to the very last drop.
I suggest go back to the year 2007, when I first came to “conquer” that far, unknown and foreign country. At that moment I was 24 years old, I worked as the acting bank director, my career grew fast and future seemed prospective, clear and bright. So, what really prompted me to leave my family, friends, career, and refuse all that I had and start my new future turning over a new leaf? To answer this question, it is necessary to clear out for my readers how did I came to immigration idea.
It all started in early days, to be more precise in 2005. I was about to finish the University, was righting my diploma project and worked as a Marketing Specialist in a big wholesale company. At that moment I thought that’s it, the moment that I was waiting for a long time, real life begins! I remember, being at a party, one of my friends said, whether in jest or earnest, that he had always dreamed to live in New Zealand. I asked: “Why?” He smiled and answered:”Because it is a paradise on the Earth”. Two years have passed since then. After the graduation I left the wholesale company as I dreamed to work in the speciality, and to the great delight, I had a successful interview for a position of specialist in the development department at a bank in my region. As I mentioned before, my career grew fast, life was going to be successful, and I had a beloved girlfriend and a sense of inner harmony.
In a certain period of time, after reading a trilogy of Theodore Dreiser “The Financier”; I turned on the heat to become a stockbroker and deepen my knowlege in the field of exchange activities, stocks and shares, and other financial instruments. At the same time I realized that learning foreign language would be good for further development of my career. The hard question arose – how to combine my work, lifestyle and my plans to continue financial education and develop my English language skills. The more I thought about it, the clearer I realized that it is impossible to reconcile the irreconcilable, and embrace the boundless. The only reasonable solution seemed to travel abroad for English language course followed by going University. It seemed a brilliant idea to me, as a Western education coincided perfectly with my view about the contemporary successful person.
To be continued.
Ilya, 2012.
