Jennifer Krumkuhler - February to September 2014

Hello.  My name is Jenny Krumkuhler and I have been an international student at Horowhenua College for 8 months.  I have had such an awesome time here.  I met heaps of nice and really helpful people and I experienced new and really different things which I didn’t know about before I left my home country. I guess it’s really hard to explain to other people what it is like to be an international student because it is just so different from what everyone expects.  You choose the country you’re going to because people tell you what nice landscapes it has and how awesome it looks, but they actually don’t know what it means to live there. Being an international student is way more than looking around the country.  It means getting to know the lifestyle, the people, the food, the culture and so much more. Yes, I travelled around heaps and yeah, the landscape is beautiful and really impressive, but in fact it is not that which I am going to miss in New Zealand.  It is more the people I have got to know, who I can call my friends now, my host family who showed me their way of living and supported me a lot and school.  I actually really enjoyed school here.  It is so different to Germany and in my eyes, it is much better. Thanks to very one who supported me this year, who spent time with me and helped me or even just talked to me.  I am going to miss all of that a lot! » View all testimonials