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Understanding a written text in a foreign language: Even before the start of the International Week, I was faced with this by having to read and understand the article about my topic-group. My knowledge of and ability to use the English language is already really good (if I say so myself), but when studying specific subjects like Environmental concerns, Sustainability, the link with Social Work... in English it's like you're a first year student with no knowledge of any professional lingo and terminology again. This made me look up words and think about the meaning of words in their context again, something I'm not used to do anymore in English.

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Cultural flexibility: Working together with students, lecturers and coaches of different countries comes with understanding the differences in communication. For example the Dutch students in our group mentioned they've noticed we don't swear a lot when we're passionate (positive or negative) about things. The French student in our group had very little knowledge of the English language because she's, like many French people, used to having a wide choice of information and entertainment (American TV shows and movies are dubbed in French instead of English-spoken with subtitles for example) in French and much less connection to English-standardized international communities.

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Multiperspectivity: In the lecture about Rikolto and the lecture about India, I realized how privileged I am to have climate change as one of my biggest concerns. Farmers in Africa and South-America are struggling to produce enough food and get fair prices for it for them to survive, many people in India don't get fitting well-paid job opportunities to support their families. Although climate change does affect those people, probably more than it will ever affect me, they are simply too busy trying to survive to be able to worry about the environment. Although I knew this in the back of my mind, these lectures really made me conscious about how the place and situation a person lives in heavily influences their perspectives on different aspects of life.

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Showing creativity: as a student and politically active person I'm used to write texts and give lectures about subjects. As you can see in my individual mindmap, when I need to study a subject I use a rather analytical system with lines and lots of words to organize as much information and details about it as possible. Seeing how some peers did their mindmaps in a more artistic way, with less keywords but with pictures, drawings, and organic shapes, opened my eyes to studying and presenting subjects on a more creative and visually pleasing way, which is also the way we worked together on our group mindmap.
The Lego-workshop showed me how even toy construction blocks can be used to create a message.

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Knowing relevant international organisations for the discipline: During the preparation for the group project, the groupwork itself, and the lectures I've attended during SWIP, I've got to know multiple international organisations that are relevant to the environment and sustainability like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Rikolto (Vredeseilanden).

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My personal mindmap

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Volunteers

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Entrance

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Children's and Youth clothing

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Legotheek

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Tvelootje

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Bicycle measuring

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Bicycle rental

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Babytheek & Sportrijk

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Instrumentheek

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Tool rental

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Repair Manifesto

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Cooking

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Social Work is about connecting people, no matter their (dis-)ability, confidence, need of support...

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...with fewer opportunities in South-West Flanders and socio-cultural initiatives

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...with fewer opportunities in South-West Flanders and socio-cultural initiatives

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Working on our mindmap

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Working on our mindmap

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Working on our mindmap

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What do other students think about Environment & Sustainability? Pre-presentation interaction

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Mindmap about Migration

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Mindmap about Globalisation

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Mindmap about Globalisation

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Mindmap about Poverty (it's almost Christmas after all)

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The Group

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Our group mindmap

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Snippet of Wendy Derynck thanking the international teachers and students