UniSA International
My first taste of living
away from the family
home in Porthope,
Ontario at a young age,
was when I travelled to
Costa Rica on a 3 month
student exchange program
as a sixteen year old.
I then made an initial
trip to Australia in
2001 for a month long
holiday.
Then one day I simply decided that I wanted to go to Australia to live and study. I believe that experience is the best educator.
For some it was hard to believe, but I chose to study at a regional campus in South Australia to complete my nursing degree. I was looking for a change and I thought that nobody does the regional experience, so I will!
I knew there would be other Canadian and American students if I chose the Adelaide option. I like the fact that I am the only Canadian student, and one of a handful of international students at Whyalla. It makes you feel very individual and important.
In my classes in Whyalla, I am one of 25-30 students in a course, rather than one of 120-1000 in Canada. The lecturers knew our names on the first session, it was awesome!
When I finish my studies I hope to become a practicing midwife in Australia. In Canada midwifery is very regional, whereas in the city you go to a doctor to have a baby so I suppose I have been more geared to a regionally based occupation which I’m now choosing to do in Australia.
Danielle Heykoop
Bachelor of Nursing, Whyalla,
graduated 2005
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