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K:
No, but sometimes I wished I had! The food at the hostel was awful.
Q2
C:
Oh dear. But how were the other students?
K:
To be honest I haven’t managed to make many friends
even though the place
is full. People seem to keep to themselves; they’re not really very friendly.
Q3
C:
Oh I’m sorry to hear that. Well, what about the actual course? You’re
studying … uh?
K:
I’m doing a Masters by coursework in Environmental Studies.
C:
Ah, right, and how are you finding that?
K:
Yeah, well, it’s been pretty good really. I’ve enjoyed the course, but I feel
there hasn’t been enough contact with the lecturers. They all seem to be
Q4
incredibly busy. The only chance I’ve really had
to talk to them was on the
field trip.
C:
Well that’s no good. Could anything be done to improve the course in your
opinion?
K:
Well … I think it would be helpful to have meetings with lecturers on the
Q5
course. Say once a fortnight — something like that.
C:
Regular meetings. Yes that could certainly help. Now Kate, we’ll come back.
to
you in a minute, but I’d just like to ask Luki some questions.
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C:
Luki, Where are you from?
L:
I am from Indonesia.
C:
And how did
you find Cambridge when you first arrived?
L:
Well, I like it here. I think the city is very beautiful.
C:
What about your accommodation? Was that OK?
L:
Yes,
OK. At first I stayed with a family for three months. They were very
Q6
kind to me but they had three young children and I found it difficult to
Q7
study
C:
Right, I see.
L:
So after three months I moved out and now I live
with two other students in
a student house. It’s much cheaper and we like it there.
Q8
C:
Good, and what about your studies? What are you studying?
L:
I’m doing a Bachelor of Computing.
Q9
C:
Computing. I see. Um, apart from the language difficulties, if you can
separate them, how have you found the course?
L:
OK, but …
C:
Yes, go on.
L:
Well, the main difficulty for me is getting time on the computers in the
computer room. It’s always busy and this
makes it very hard to do my
practical work.
C:
Yes, I’m sure it would. Can you reserve time in the computer room?
L:
No, you can’t … but it would certainly help if we
could reserve computer
time.
Q10
C:
Yes. I’ll look into that and see if something can’t be done to improve things
over there. Now let’s go back to Kate...