Nawin from Nepal: I was homesick

For Nawin Pudasaini, coming to Copenhagen to do a full degree in pharmaceutical science was not easy.

»I felt homesick here, as it was the first time I was away from home,« he explains.

The University Post found him, among those respondents of the ‘Your Typical Day’ survey who had left contact details, to be a typical student in terms of time spent on different activities.

Now less than two hours a day chatting

Generally speaking, in terms of time spent on the survey’s activities, he is Mr Average. But there is one exception: The time he spends ‘chatting with friends via phone, skype, messenger Ipad, facebook whatever’ where he reports two to four hours, every day.

»At the time I filled out the survey, I felt the need to get connected to my family and friends, as I was homesick.

This has since improved and I have met many friends in class, and Nepalese friends here,« he says, adding that the time spent under this category is now under two hours a day.

He spends his other spare moments going for evening walks, and reading literature: At the moment Georg Eber’s 1864 novel ‘An Egyptian Princess’.

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