Our free Sunday was reserved to spend some time with McNair students. After waking up and short sightseeing of downtown of Orlando, w event in front of the theater where McNair students were waiting for us with amazing surprise – going on show to see musical Wicked. After three interesting hours of musical and round of applause at the end performers came back to the stage and presented to us beautiful and creative gesture. Throughout all their shows, they are trying to make a difference and help the community. After every show, all the performers are gathering in front of the theater in order to encourage people to donate money for fighting against the AIDS and breast cancer. The name of the program is Broadway Cares, and during the show they manage to collect even huge amount of money. When giving their donations, people have chance to win some stuff with logo of musical. Once again, we managed to proof that big heart of even one person can make a difference. And when there is more people united in purpose, then this difference can make a lot of positive changes in their community.

Today we managed to spend really interesting day with a lot of nice moments. Since we found out that UCF is well known in the field of Hospitality Management-u and its quality, we went to Universal Studio Park in order to relax and learn something useful regarding that field on practical examples, both at the same time. Since we had interesting meeting regarding practical experiences of their students during our first day at UCF, we found out that Universal Studio is also one of the opportunities which has been offered to students to go and gain practical experience there. It can be good opportunity for students in terms of the good organization and handling big number of people coming there. The day was really educational, interesting and special, especially because we had a chance on special way to find out something about the quality of the services and collects tongues of good case practices to use them once. 

Hello everyone!

We're done with our first day on our trip, still under excitement mixed with a lot of emotions, which is really hard to conduct in few sentences and photography’s.

We spent really intense day at the University of Central Florida, where we had chance to go on a lot of meetings with people who are working at the different centre, each one with their own purpose.

First meeting was with Experiential Learning and Career Services. There we had chance to meet two person who work with students on different activities.

First one of them, Ulla Isaac, is Acting Director in Experiential Learnings showed us through her presentation how students are getting chances for experiential learning in the fields of their interest and fields they are planning to work in during their future life. She mentioned how it is the best to have a combination of theoretical knowledge from the faculty and practical knowledge when going on internship in the company. She highlighted the importance of having good and diverse CV in order to find the job easier.

After the interesting presentation on the third floor of the building, we went to the first floor in order to listen the presentation delivered by dr. Bill Blank, Director of Career Development. Throughout his presentation, we managed to find out how they are preparing their students to successfully find their desired job and to stay at their work place as long as they would like to. On the second floor of the building there is a lot of the rooms where students can practice their interviews and prepare better.

After the lunch we went to the Recreation and Wellness Center, where students can do the sport they like, take a rest from their studying or just to do what they like.

The last meeting of the day was with dr. Maribeth Ehaz, Vice President Student Development and Enrollment Services.  First we introduced ourselves, then we talked about their Knights helping Knights Pantry center, which was invented and developed by the students in order to help the students with bad financial situation. We continued our conversation with discussion about the importance of volunteering and being part of different students’ activities.

Between every meeting we had chance to see some parts of the campus, and the last party of the day was dinner and discussion about the interesting day we had.