ISS conducts a series of Returning Home Seminars for all completing international students during the second half of both academic sessions. For more details and registration, please refer to ISNews on the website or contact ISS.

Think Back when you arrived in Australia. Did you find it difficult to adjust? People who have lived overseas for over 12 months often find that adjusting to returning home is more difficult than their adjustment to living in a new culture. Why? Expectations are an important factor. When you came to Australia, you expected change, to speak a different language, to make a new friends, and to learn the customs of a new different culture ... but home ... you know that place!

Remember that you have changed while you lived and studied at UNSW. Your family and friends have also changed and it is simply impossible to return to the way things were when you first departed.

 

Upon return to your home country, you will experience a phenomenon called "reverse culture shock". This is very similar to the initial period of adjustment you went through when you first arrived in Sydney.

 

Returning Home and Graduation booklet is intended to help you make preparations before returning home. IT includes a useful checklist of 'things to do' before and after completing your studies.

A farewell Valedictory function is held to congratulate those international students who are completing their studies. It will be a fun evening of food, drinks and good company. The invitation cards will be mailed out to students. Please refer to the invitation and register with ISS Reception before RSVP date.

A series of seminars will be held in May, July, October and December 2009 to inform students of the practical issues of what to do before leaving UNSW. Further details in ISNews section.

Please call 9385 5333 or email ISS to register.

If you are interested in hiring an academic gown to take pictures before you leave, you can contact the  at 9385 7700 or call into the Arc@UNSW Graduation and Gift Store located at the top of the Basser Steps.

Contact information:

 

UNSW Student Central
[p] +61 2 9385 8500
[e] sisinfo@unsw.edu.au

[w] www.studentcentral.unsw.edu.au