On February 8, 2018, we had a seminar at STINTs office in the center of Stockholm with all the new STINT Teaching Sabbatical Fellows of 2018 and most of last year’s fellows. This was a great opportunity to discuss and listen to some of the former fellows’ experience of being part of the program, both those that were fresh back home from the 2017 fellowship and those that could reflect with several years of experience of being back home since the sabbatical. There were also possibilities to get to know this years fellow fellows and ask questions about the program and get a grasp of the duties (and the possibilities) during the program. I got valuable information about NTU, the teaching and, foremost, some of all the things that demand planning before leaving! After discussing the housing situation in Singapore with the ones being at NTU during fall 2017, faculty housing at NTU campus remained the number one option for us.
Another nice surprise was that this year’s mid-seminar will not be held in Singapore (as it has been for the last couple of years) but at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Consequently, I will have to go to Hong Kong for a couple of days in end of October…
in total, we are four new fellows that will spend time in Singapore this fall, I will have one college from the Mid-Sweden University at NTU and there will be two more Swedes at National University of Singapore (NUS). This will be so much fun!
Revised ToDo list: