For this 4th episode of Women Abroad, Tijana Marovic, a young Serbian from Belgrade takes us to discover São Paulo in Brazil.

Depuis toute jeune, Tijana est passionnée de langues et de cultures étrangères. De Strasbourg en France, dont elle nous partage avec enthousiasme son expérience d’étudiante à l’université où elle y étudie un Master en communication internationale, elle s’envole ensuite pour un premier emploi vers São Paulo, au Brésil. Elle y découvre les joies et les défis d’une acclimatation culturelle pas toujours simple dans un pays bigarré, créatif et foisonnant.

With foresight and sincerity, she shares with us her perception of the cultures that she has experienced as a foreign resident while putting her own culture into perspective.

Pour ce troisième épisode de Women Abroad, nous traversons l’océan Atlantique et nous nous arrêtons à Montréal, au Canada. Nous y rencontrons Arya Rajurkar, étudiante indienne qui poursuit un master en business avec une majeure en finance et une mineure en marketing à l’Université Concordia.

I met Arya when I was living in Nigeria, she was then studying her IB in the same school as one of my daughters. Between dream and reality, she explains to us in a very spontaneous way how she adjusted to life in Canada, her major challenges as a foreign student. This experience has allowed her improve her time management skills growing more autonomous and more responsible in her daily life.

Today we host Axelle Salvage, a young French manager who lives in Luxembourg.

After a degree in geography in Reims followed by a first year of Master’s degree in geopolitics, she then joined the University of Strasbourg, France to pursue her Master’s degree in international relations. In search of a work placement abroad to be completed alternately during her Master 2, she discovers Luxembourg. She joins the Luxembourg Maritime Cluster as an intern at first, then as Assistant Manager.

Axelle explains her career, her acclimatization in Luxembourg and her perception of the country. She also shares her passions, her dreams, her concerns and what she learns about herself in the course of her work. She communicates her desire for travel.

Today for our first episode we are hosting Vladiana Apetroaie. Vladiana is a young Romanian who has been working as website Administrator and E-Learning Developer at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium since early 2019. After her bachelor degree in European Studies she obtained from the university of Bucharest, Romania, she got a Master’s degree in Anthropology/Migration and Minorities followed by a University Certificate in social sciences at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Our paths crossed on internet about five years ago when I was still in Belgium. What had struck me about her was her passionate nature. She explains to us how it all started for her in Belgium, how she perceives the country, how our mental representations can positively or negatively impact our perception of people of another culture.

She presents her learning experience from a very holistic stand point and tells us how she has grown as a person from studying, living and working abroad.