The 'Hello Vietnam' Exhibition

‘Hello Vietnam’ was one of the big cultural exhibitions which were held for international students in Melbourne. It was unforgettable event with all Vietnamese students, particularly me because I had opportunity to perform the Vietnamese musical instruments and introduce the Vietnamese music to all audiences.

The exhibition included many small exhibitions, such as Food Exhibition, Culture Exhibition and Music Show. All Vietnamese tradition pictures, hats, dresses and food was delivered from Vietnam and exhibited in this event. There was tradition pictures with calligraphy, hats was made by coconut leaves, and a lot of Vietnamese candy, jams. Interestingly, the music show was held with many dances and performances, which was performed by Vietnamese students in Melbourne. Some of them were students, but their performances looked like professional performances.

The exhibition happened and received a lot of positive feedbacks from the Melbourne’s government, the director from many Universities in Melbourne and the bravos from international students in Australia. Hopefully, many cultural exhibitions, such as Vietnamese exhibitions, Thailand exhibition or Chinese exhibition will be held in Australia to introduce an Australia multicultural society to international students in the world.

The library in CQUniversity Melbourne

It can be seen that every university have at least one library for their students to study. Same as these universities, CQUniversity Melbourne has a library at level 4. Even though the library is not too large, it has all academic materials as well as CDs, computers for the learners at CQUniversity Melbourne.

I can say that there was a change in library to get better day by day. In term One, the library had a lot of academic materials for Accounting, Marketing, Computers, but few books for the Arts subjects, especially the Creative Enterprises subjects. It was undeniable that the academic materials for Accounting, Marketing, Computers was crucial because most of students in CQUniversity studied these subjects; however, if the library could keep a balance between the amount of Economic books and the Arts books, it would be better.

Surprisingly, the library has a big change in term Two. A lot of Art books as well as the e-materials are bought. It is getting easy for Arts students when they want to find the materials for their research in CQUniversity’s library rather than in other libraries. Moreover, many services are supported by the professional librarians such as helping with searching materials, borrowing books or providing short courses about using the library for new students. As a student who is studying in CQUniversity Melbourne, I can say that CQUniversity has a profound care to all students and we are happy with this interest.

Friends at CQUniversity

Living and studying in Melbourne, I have a lot of friends. Even though we come from many different countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, China, or French, we become close friends after three months studying at CQUniversity.

Panesorn and Sayed are my close classmates. They come from Thailand and India, and we become close friends after three months studying together at CQUniversity. Panesorn is thin, she has long hair and never ties her hair while Sayed is tall, healthy and has tawny complexion. Studying together in all subjects, we usually share our learning experiences and study together to help each other learning better. For instance, when we have heavy assignments, we sit together, discuss about the assignments and find the way to solve the problems. Panesorn is an intelligent girl; she often has some interesting ideas, which help us get the good marks for our assignments. On the other hand, Sayed used to be a designer in India, so he helps us to design our presentations, make it perfect to achieve the high results from the lecturers. Even though we come from different countries with different culture background, the friendship and the study environment at CQUniversity make us become closer.

Moreover, I still have some friends, which are studying in different faculties in CQUniversity. Tippiwan is another Thais girl, who is very lovely at CQUniversity. She is studying Master of Accounting and very busy with her studies and her working. We knew each other when we studied in GEOS-an English centre in Melbourne. Become close friends, she always helps me and gives me some good advices when I need.

It can be said that the study environment at CQUniversity help us become close friends. Every day, we have changes to learn from each others, sharing the study experiences and hobbies. All these experiences at CQUniversity help us become close friends forever.