Monday - working day
After a rest from the road, meeting the Orlando, people, culture and all other relevant things here, it's time to get to know the people for whom we came here. The first presenter in agenda today was neither more not less, but the Croat. Her name is Laila Miletic-Vejzović. This lady is from Zadar works in UCF's library and it has been very interesting to listen about the library and the hole system about it. The library is huge, it is possible to drink coffee in the library, rent a laptop, tablet PC or camera. In the library we came about 10 a.m. and it was already nearly full of students who are diligently doing their jobs. Besides Mrs. Laila we met Meg Scharf, Associate Director for Public Services, which gave us a short presentation about the library, it's history ect. Really interesting experience.
Afterwards we had the opportunity to meet people, who were really amazing. Dr. Elliot Vittes who is vice dean for undergraduate studies and Dr. Rick Schell, Vice President and Chief of Staff. Very interesting people who helped us to understand better how the school system is working here in the U.S.. I learned a lot and I'm really fascinated by the opportunities that are provided for the students here.
Though, when it comes to the amount of the intuition that students pay a lot here, you can clearly see why the systems is so great. But in any case there are so much things in what they are more developed than us and it was really interesting to hear about all this. After the break, we had the opportunity to visit the Barbara Ying Center which is responsible for students coming from other countries and not from America to study at UCF. At UCF currently are 1600 students who study here from abroad. Listening to all the information I have to admit that I started thinking about the various new opportunities for me, and I got my answer to every question that interested me.
The presentation was led by Chris Legoullon, Mark Hartman and Angel Cardec. The presentation was very interesting, in the end we got some questions that we answered correct, and I won the pendant as a memento of the day. All in all, this day was very useful, I have exchanged a lot of contacts and met really interesting people. And nothing moving on to new conquests! :)