Long time, no .. write?

May, June, July, August, September, October.. wow. Six months break in my internationalisation. No, not really. Just a break in documenting the process! Been to busy.. always the excuse, isn't it? Well, now - at this very moment - I'm at a 'blog workshop', so I simply needed to start writing :D.
So. What's up?
Well, the exchange students left last May / June. Then I went on an Erasmus exchange myself - which was awsome. Nothing like te 'good old days' in St. Pete 98 and 2000 or Glasgow 98-99 when I was a student (and young..), but still awsome. It was a real exchange, where I went to countries I have never been to, to a culture that was not familiar to me and a language I do not speak.. and learned heaps! So a big Danke to my hostess and hosts at Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg (Dornbirn). :)
For my summer holidays I stayed in Finland, read books in Finnish (about Glasgow though - and got into a real 'home-sickness-for-Scotland' mode listening to KT Tunstall and reading Denise Mina's excellent books :D!).
Then there was the other international highlight of the year: the annual conference of the European Association of International Education (EAIE) in Antwerp, Belgium. And that was awsome too :), meeting so many people, the discussions, the interesting sessions.. I was exhausted by the end of it! I also had a small presentation of my own at a session on 'Keeping in touch after the mobility', presenting Laurea's Erasmus Alumni activities, which are our way of keeping in touch with our former incoming exchange students.
And now - the new students are here, and all settled in by now. I'm having less and less to do with the arriving students, which is a shame. I'll definately need to step out of my little box and start finding ways to communicate and spend time with foreigners on my free time. Whether our students or my Russian neighbours..
But first I will visit Paris!!