Leadership and Friendship with Spain Students by Alison, LAU Siu Hung It is very lucky to have the chance to join this study tour. It was really a great experience in my life. Before the study tour, each two students were responsible to organize and plan the itinerary of one day. At the beginning, it was quite difficult because I did not expect that we need to plan it and we were not familiar with Spain. Therefore, we needed to search for more information, including the famous tourist spots, transportation, and weather forecast there and so on. I was in charge of the Day 1 itinerary. I remembered that day was an extremely exciting day. I have never been a leader with such important role. It was really a good chance to train our leadership. We have visited two universities. One is in Barcelona and one is in Valencia. During the visit, we visited the facility of the universities; all of us think that it is so great to have their own departmental library. And we have talked with some students there, they are really nice and they suggested some famous restaurants that we can go. We also talked about the cultural differences between Spain and Hong Kong. When we left, we exchanged our contact and facebook and wished to have further communication. In one university, we had a lecture about the city planning of Barcelona. The development of Barcelona was totally different from Hong Kong, Barcelona is divided by grids in order to maximize the effect of ventilation and their buildings are also environmentally-friendly. In summer, Barcelona is very hot and they use the window curtain to reduce the sunlight but without affect the ventilation. In winter, the buildings have two layers of windows. They will close the outside window so the strong and cold wind will not enter the building but sunlight can come in. Thanks to this study tour, I had the chance to leave Asia and went to Spain. Through this study tour, I have learnt a lot. First of all, I have broadened my horizon that I know more about Spain, like the urban planning, culture, building design and architectural style there. Some are useful in my future career. The next is my leadership is being improved, although planning the itinerary was hard at the beginning, but I really learnt something in this part. Moreover, I think this study tour has given us a chance to have a better relationship with the classmates. At first, some of us may not have interaction in classes, but now, we will chat and play together. This study tour is really a valuable memory in my life.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:03:07 +0000
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