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Long waited Wednesday

Wednesday morning. The weather is sunny, and we are happy again, waiting at the same bust station for the bus which is going to take us to the main campus. First thing thait is waiting for us int he morning is literature with dr. Cecilia Milanes. McNair office is today small creative place where we are listening parts of the new book from amazing literate.

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After the interesting morning – here is the moment which we were waiting for a very long time. We're spending the afternoon with Ambassador Harriet L. Elam – Thomas. With mix of excited feelings we were walking to the Madam Ambassador's office, where some of the students were already waiting for us, together with her. One hour passed in conversations about our wishes, plans, interests, country and education. After finishing our part of introducing, Madam Ambassador started to talk about herself and her life. She was talking about the attitudes, life experience, things that are on her mind, some of her successes and failures. Several time she emphasized how much she supports the cooperation between FOI and UCF, and that she thinks something like this is very valuable because students are getting international experience, chance to learn about the country and all the bad and good sides of it. She stressed out how she thinks that Internet can give us a lot of information, but those are only information which are coming from someone's perception and how the best way to learn is to develop our own perception through visiting the country and meeting the people. She was also talking about her perception of the world and how people are actually close to each other through the stuff they are using every day, that are made in other countries. She thinks how this is showing cooperation between countries and helping each other.  Her final message was that we should think more with our hearts and less with our brains because that's the only way to bring the positive change in society. With this thing on our mind, she left us to enjoy the rest of the afternoon and wished us to have a great time in Florida.

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After the amazing time with madam ambassador, we went on volunteer fair, where UCF students were presenting their volunteer activities. We also had chance to help through informing ourselves on how we could help but also putting the words into action and making the sandwiches for homeless people.

 

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After the lunch time we were part of opening of Information Fluency Conference and some lectures connected to this topic. The last part was poster section where some of our students and professor where presenting the cooperation between FOI and UCF, mainly the last project – International Student Research Symposium.

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Back to campus to prepare our presentations! Tomorrow is our big day!


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