Late yesterday evening I got a phone call. 'Hi how you doin? What you up to? Blah, blah blah... your head of school is coming tomorrow morning so you'll have a meeting, give him a tour and have lunch.' Not quite what I was expecting. It was all a little bizarre given that I'd only met the guy briefly once before for a meeting, and this time I'm in a completely different country. All in all it went well, they want to create more opportunities for exchanges so I had to give my opinion as they first person to go in this direction. It's a strange exchange. I go to classes, but they aren't the ones I'd have in Scotland and have nothing to do with art, so I do extra work out with them. It's not easy, so I figured I'd may as well be honest about that when they asked, but my final answer was that the pro's definitely outweigh the cons. Yes it's a lot of work, you have not work space and risk a fairly poor grade, but at the end of the day, the experience of living and functioning in a very different culture massively outweighs that. I mean, even if you don't want to, in that situation you're going to be influenced and learn a lot from the culture you're in, the good and the bad.
Today's lesson; always expect the unexpected.
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