{"id":14946,"date":"2020-01-29T13:35:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2020-11-03T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T09:16:19","slug":"moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2020\/01\/29\/moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving My Hometown to Follow My Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 24th of November 2018, I was on a holiday in Goa, India as I needed a break from my work and side-by-side I was prepping up for my master\u2019s program in the UK.\u00a0 After receiving the offer from Bournemouth University<\/a>, I was so happy – I was also very pleased to be able to share this news with my parents.<\/p>\n

After my holiday, I was back in Bengaluru, where I got back to my usual work mode. Even though I was trying to concentrate on my work, there was one thing still bothering me. How I can tell my employers about me leaving and going to university in the UK?\u00a0 As well as admitting I had hidden this fact about it for many days.<\/p>\n

I wanted to tell them about my University offer but I was scared about their reaction. However, once when I revealed it, their reaction was opposite, instead of being angry, they became very supportive about my intentions.<\/p>\n

They offered me free time to attend my visa interview and cut short my notice period after submitting my resignation to them. After getting my visa and a sendoff from my organization on New Year\u2019s Eve, I began the first step of my journey by buying the important necessities which a student requires when he\u2019s going abroad for studies. I bought some warm clothes, which were very useful arriving in Bournemouth in January, as well as a few home comforts to help remind me on India whilst living in the UK.<\/p>\n

Despite all this excitement, I still felt nervous and uneasy as I had never stepped outside of my home before to travel overseas. I boosted up my confidence by thinking about the great people who left their hometowns to accomplish their dreams and if they can do it, why not me? With this attitude, I began a step forward to my journey to start a new beginning.<\/p>\n

On my first day when I arrived in Bournemouth in January, there were some new experiences which I had to encounter – like the extreme cold to early dusk during winters mornings. As the days passed by, I started getting used to the environment and made new friends through mutual gatherings like the ResLife<\/a> activities in my dorm and lectures at the University. There were times when I was being tested in deep waters but those situations gave me a learning lesson which can never be ignored in the future.<\/p>\n

Concluding, I would say that sometimes you don’t have to be perfect to face the real world all by yourself. Every small moment teaches you a lesson which can have a greater impact in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 24th of November 2018, I was on a holiday in Goa, India as I needed a break from my work and side-by-side I was prepping up for my master\u2019s program in the UK.\u00a0 After receiving the offer from Bournemouth University, I was so happy – I was also very pleased to be able to… Read more » about Leaving My Hometown to Follow My Dreams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3157,"featured_media":8967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2373,500,828,1663,12,704],"tags":[877,1946,1947,1948,51,785,1966,50,1979,2228],"class_list":["post-14946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pg-computing-informatics","category-computing-informatics","category-international-student-stories","category-postgraduate","category-student-blogs","category-student-life","tag-bournemouth","tag-india","tag-indian","tag-indian-in-bournemouth","tag-international","tag-international-student","tag-international-student-life","tag-january","tag-january-intake","tag-rohan-muralidhara"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15407,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14946\/revisions\/15407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}