UC Davis AMA - Ask Me Anything! with Dalia Wardany (International)

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Hi everybody.

My name is Dahlia. I work for the University of California, Davis welcome.

Uhm, I just want to do a quick check in the chat to make sure everybody can hear me. We have some kind of a an intimate cozy group here with us today, so that'll be nice. Will have a nice open chat if you can hear me and see me. Can you just type in the chat? So yes, thumbs up I can hear you. Hello anything at all.

Hello, I see Anvita, Shriya my eyes are on the chat. Yes audio and video looks good cool thank you.

Thanks you guys. Awesome welcome. Wherever you are good morning, Good afternoon, good evening depending on what part of this planet you are in right now, let me just start off by making it a little bit interactive. How 'bout you type in the chat an let me know where you're joining us from today.

What city, what country?

Anyone wanna chime in India, Singapore, Hong Kong?

New Delhi awesome thanks. You guys. Don't be shy, it's just us today.

Very good India cool so it is 402 California time. It's super early but that's OK. I'm a morning person before we go any further, I want to introduce my Co pilot for today's webinar. My colleague Stanley is also with us in the room sound say hi there she is. Everyone say hi to San. She's gonna be helping me answer your questions.

Um, thanks to all of you who registered for this. Ask me anything. This session is just, uh, for you about you. You are all in the driver's seat and I am in the hot seat.

Thanks and make me all self conscious first thing in the morning. Um, OK, so how is this gonna go? This is an open chat so you are more than welcome to just type your questions in the chat. Whatever is on your mind right now, some of you have already submitted questions when you registered for this webinar, so that's awesome. We're going to try to get to as many of those as possible. We have a big deadline coming up for a lot of students. May one is the big decision date.

This side, uh, where you're going to go to college next year, so you're choosing your school. So this is a big decision. We scheduled this. Ask me anything opportunity for you to just help you sort things out in your heads up in case there's any last minute issues or concerns that are still on your mind, nothing is off limits. You can ask me about UC Davis asked me about California, asked me about life in general. I can't promise I have.

Wisdom in the world, but I will do my best to make sure that you leave today's um, session. Feeling empowered to make that big decision and that you have most of the tools and information that you need to be confident in that decision. Uhm, so let's I want to just show you a quick slide of some resources.

Um, hopefully you can see my slide there. There's some ways to connect with us. We see that May 1 deadline looming a couple days from now. That's the Sir deadline. Sir is an acronym for statement of intent to register. You will find the opportunity to Sir and say yes to UC Davis, if that's what you're feeling from your my admissions website, you should be familiar with that already. If you're not, get in there when we sent you your congratulations, you're.

In email you were given access to a my admissions website portal. This is your, um, your central hub for communications from us. Make sure you get familiar with it. You will find the ASR button there and knew brand new is another opportunity if you want to take advantage of it right next to the Sir button. I think it's to the right. You will find an option 2.

Extend your, um, extend the deadline or ask for an extension to say yes to UC Davis, if that's what you need. So if you feel like you need a little bit more time.

You can ask for an extension for now it looks like the extension is up to May 15th so it gives you a little bit more time couple weeks to chat things over with your family do some more soul searching before you say yes I see questions are getting started in the chat I'm gonna start actually with a question that was already submitted through the registration site and that is about the Cove in 19 situation icy sherry's also asking that question so.

A lot of you have that question on your mind. If you are concerned or curious or wondering about um, what's the situation now. An in the summer and in the fall about how the University is is planning to keep everybody safe and also um on track.

Um, in spite of COVID-19, listen carefully. This is for you, so here's what we know so far, and I'm being super honest and candid with you will.

This is a really fluid situation. UC Davis is a research University, the University of California is known for research. We do the research for the state of California, so we're all about science or all about listening to the experts in in the medical field in the health field. And so we are taking direction from from that an hour first priority is making sure that students.

Are safe 1st and that we are doing everything that we can to make sure we are slowing down the spread of this virus and keeping our students and our staff healthy and that goes for our current students and you all the incoming students. So Having said that right now you see here is what you see Davis is doing for our current students. Everything as most of you might already know, if you're reading anything on our website are in the news. We as all.

Other universities are most other universities in the world have gone remote. We are now offering instruction online. I seen I see that's an has posted a really important website. She's she's going to post a lot of URLs for you today. If you want to know what's going on.

There is a remote instruction happening, so even our engineering students, if you are in labs an for your degree, the University is doing its best to send those students kids so they can complete even their home, their hands on labs at home, and so that's what the campus looks like. Right now we are still open for people to come to campus if if there are students that are local in California and they just want to wander around the UC Davis campus, we can still do that. It still.

Open it still beautiful. The weather is amazing right now. All of our essential staff is still out there doing their thing and working and an uhm taking care of campus and getting it prepared for fall quarter.

So in the fall right now the plan is to be open in person. There have not been any changes yet to that plan. what I can tell you is that because the University and the leadership of the University is monitoring the situation.

If there are any changes and if they shift the decision about whether or not uh open fully or open partially or have any remote options for our incoming students. You will be notified. We do our very best to make sure that students are aware and not in the dark if you don't know something, most likely it's because you have not been checking your email from UC Davis. So here's our first tip.

If you receive any emails from UC Davis, open them, check them, read them. We do not send you emails haphazardly. We don't send you emails just to, um, clutter your inbox is, we send you emails to give you information and a lot of times we are giving you instructions to things that you have to act on or respond to. I see a lot of questions popping in the chat. I hope you're all.

Paying attention to the things that I'm saying, hang on, uh?

A lot of your questions are going to be answered as we go on.

Um, so I'm going to now.

Check some of the questions that you have submitted ahead of time.

There's a lot of questions about deferred enrollment, so if you're not aware.

Um, we have an option for students who think that maybe although they know they want to come to UC Davis, they want to get a degree from UC Davis. They may not be necessarily ready to join us on time in the fall, and they want to put that of- a little bit. They want to delay the enrollment they want to delay the point at which they come to California and enroll on campus and start their courses so you see, Davis is one of the few universities that gives you that.

Option we will let you defer your involvement between one term. For us, that means 1/4 up to a full year. A lot of you have had questions about different enrollment, so if this is you, pay attention to this answer.

The the way that you defer your enrollment is also through your my admissions account. We want you to go into my admissions after you when you see your your congratulations letter you're in and you, Sir, so you first have to accept your see at UC Davis. Once you do that, you will be given a hyper link. A link to defer your involvement if that's what you want. It's a very simple procedure. It's not a competitive process at all.

At all, it's just a form you need to fill out and you tell us how long you want to defer for the next question that we usually get is when can I decide what if? I'm not sure like I might want to defer? I might not want to defer. We will give you as long as up to the first day of instruction in the fall quarter to make that decision so you can take the entire summer to decide that you want to differ your enrollment.

That's plenty of time. Uhm, so you don't have to make any decisions right now, and that's basically it. An the only rule that we have if you if you choose to defer your enrollment, is that you're not allowed to enroll at any other institutions during that deferment time because you already announced an informed us that you want to be a UC Davis student. So we're holding your seat for you.

I hope that makes sense. Let me see what else we have in some of the submitted questions.

Lot of questions about coalbed about deferred enrollment and we talked about what's going to happen in the fall. I haven't mentioned this, so here's another thing that I want to talk about. They have already discussed that in the fall there will for sure be an option. An online option for at least are international students who cannot make it to California for whatever reason. They want to start their classes in the fall. They want to just be on track in terms of their progress like everybody else.

But they can't come to California, so there will be a remote option. Right now they're calling it something cool. What's the name? Uhm, oh, they're calling it quarter on the cloud, which I think is cool a man. Basically they have compiled a list of around 40 courses that you're going to be allowed to take, and these are classes that everybody would have to take anyway during their first year or two. There part of what we call your general education requirements.

So you're you're not delaying yourself in anyway, there's no waste of time.

On that, so at least are international. Students will have the option to do that. If you choose an, you wouldn't need to defer your enrollment. For that you would just be taking the quarter online. Anvita is asking a question in the chat, extending as IR deadline. Will extending the Sr deadline effect my guaranteed seat and San is answering you cool? Yeah, does not affect your see. It's all good, so I'm going to answer that as well. Just a little bit more in depth when you defer your enrollment.

You are not in any kind of disadvantage or delaye relative to other UC Davis students that started in person or online in the full. All the resources, all the stuff, all the services and expectations are still yours. It's just put of- for a period of time so you will still be engaged in orientation activities. You will still have the opportunity to register.

Fully for your classes and have all of the benefits of the staff and the campus resources. It's just put off so it absolutely does not affect impact or disadvantage. Your admission status or your enrollment situation, or what it would look like for you as a as a student.

OK.

Anvita is asking another question about guaranteed housing. Yeah, we will guarantee your housing on campus for the first 2 years. Uhm, we highly recommend that students live on campus because they're beautiful complexes and there's so many resources and that you would have access to if you live in the residence halls. Sometimes it includes tutoring occasionally. Professors will actually go out and teach classes at the rez holes.

The dining Commons are right there and they're super close to your lecture halls.

That said, not all students want to live on campus an it's OK. You see, Davis is a college town, so even are off campus housing is still really close to campus within walking distance or biking distance.

Alright, let me check some of the other submitted questions.

There's a question also related to the kovid situation about the final exam. So um, a lot of students have had their exams. Their end of year, external exams cancelled, whether you're doing the British system, uh, if you're in an Indian curriculum, your your exams have been postponed. IB has cancelled his end of year exams. We know that we get that, and we're going to honor whatever those exam authorities have decided to do.

In terms of your final marks, uhm, so whatever. Whenever I be or or Cambridge or Edexcel or or Pearson or your India board. Um India boards have decided to generate your marks for you. Your certificates for you and those are available. We will expect for you to send those. We know that they will be delayed and the University of California has.

Already, um, given us some guidelines for, um, what that flexibility looks like. But basically they're trying to be as understanding and accommodating as possible. I'm going to post a link for you right now, just to let you know what the University of California has done regarding all of those. Transcript an exam submissions. It's there in the chat you can see it. That's a really good website to read. Have your parents read it. It's pretty detailed.

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For your high school transcript, we know that many, many students, their schools are just closed right now and they can't access their counselors, their teachers, their administrators, to get those documents, we get it, and we're waiting. So we will give you up till the first day of instruction to submit those transcripts to us, and we understand, um.

Let's see, uh, someone had a question about I 20s. Thanks San for answering that. Alright, I'm gonna see what else was submitted. We had a question about um.

What's the Davis community like? So I'm gonna try my best to paint a picture for you for what the Davis community is like let me just get it quick drink here.

So my favorite thing about Davis is that we are a college town and we're the only college town in the whole UC system, so that makes US special. The other uses know it and that said parents like the Davis campus a lot. So if you have parents, moms or dads or family members that are a little nervous about sending you so far away.

For University, the Davis campus is one that kind that kind of puts their their minds at ease because we're super safe. Super is student centered. Everything is pedestrian friendly. There are so many transportation options, you don't need a car to be in Davis to live in Davis to get around in Davis, and that is definitely a unique an important convenience that you won't find in a lot of cities in the United States.

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What else can I tell you about Davis? It is a super fun, creative, eclectic hipster town. We have over 200 shops and restaurants. I'm just going to add that's an in case you didn't know is a UC Davis alumna should, so she had that entire student experience and as an expert about all of that from the student side.

Um, saying, why should type in the chat was your favorite thing about? Just like living in Davis?

I let her give her give a chance to Santa other people. Yeah, people always say like when I ask them that question. What's your favorite thing about Davis is just uncanny like the first response that we get from so many people is just the community, the community, that community, an what that means. And a lot of times I think people can take this for granted because it's just who we are. Is that our community is special an unique in that we are super supportive, super friendly so.

Each UC campus is a little bit different in our personality, but the thing that the UC Davis campus is known for is that we are the friendly campus. So no matter where you are in the town of Davis, people are going to say hello to you. They're going to ask you like how you are if you need any help. If you look lost, someone is going to guide you.

A man that's that's not us trying to put on a show that's just who we genuinely are in our in our DNA.

Uhm, yeah. Uh. Also my favorite thing about Davis.'. It's in California and California is kind of awesome. We're enjoying some pretty breathtaking weather right now. The temperature I want to say Celsius is around 2728 degrees Celsius. It's just perfect an in spite of the orders to social distance and stay at home right now, as much as possible as to be safe and keep everybody else save.

We still try to have, uh, find opportunities to go out and enjoy the outdoors.

And that's something that our students definitely take advantage of as well. We have the Arboretum on campus. Which is this gorgeous forested area in the middle of campus that surrounds a Lake Ann. We have wildlife an it's just a really Zen peaceful space for students to hang out and eat. Lunch and study alright?

Chung Yang is has a question about pass fail grades. That is something that you will find in the link that I posted a minute posted again there, um, we are accepting a pass fail grades. In some situations I want you to also know about another.

Way to communicate with us specifically about your grades.

I'm posting a link to.

A space on your my admissions portal to report changes, so listen carefully if there's anything that you're concerned about regarding your grades or how your grades will be reported on your final transcripts an whether or not those marks are going to match or be modified from the grades that you reported or were predicted and reported on your applications. We want you to talk to us.

Through the report changes website so um that's just an open space where you can type to us directly Annan evaluator will read it and get back to you with some advice.

Definitely an important one to to know and be aware of an you will find access to that from the link. I just posted an obviously from your my admissions website.

She is asking a question again about deferred enrollment. Do we graduate later than the class? So if you start a little bit later your your graduation will be a little bit later. There's ways to catch up. If you still want to graduate with with your the class of your original intake, and that's by taking summer classes that all UC Davis students have access to. That's another way to do it, so there's ways if you, when you start orientation activities, you're going to be connecting with an advisor.

And that advisor is going to help you map out your classes for the entire four years of your enrollment, and they can definitely help you find ways to to be on track to graduate with your class, and at least in time in four years.

Time passes quickly.

Wow, Sam graduated in 3 1/2 years. I didn't know that's an your rock star.

Alright, other questions that we have before I answer anymore questions, I want to make sure everybody is noticing the QR code on this page.

And that is our WhatsApp group for Internet for international students. Is anyone in this webinar room with us currently in the WhatsApp Group?

For international students, just type in. Yes, if you're already in there and visas in there, yeah, it's a pretty fun laid back space. You don't even have to know for sure that you're coming. You see Davis to be in there, and a awesome you guys are already friends. That's great.

Alright, let's see what other questions we have that were already submitted.

A lot about different enrollment and covered that there's a question about extracurriculars. What extracurriculars are offered on campus?

So many so so many so you see, Davis has over 800 student clubs and organizations, so that should give you just a tip about or an idea of how easy it is to start a club if you're interested.

A lot of time students have started clubs in their high schools and they want to keep that going at University. If you don't already find a club in our menu of 800 clubs at and you want to do something completely different, it's a very easy process to do that and you will find people to join an engage with you on that. We have something called the ASU CD. Associated students for UC Davis and they are the biggest.

And wealthiest student government in the United States. They are amazing and these are very powerful students an you can major in anything that you want an participate in our student government.

And their leaders on campus. They are a force, were scared of them and they go on to have two very impressive careers. Ansan just posted the link, awesome.

Um Smith are welcome. She is asking, uh, a joint a little bit late. I saw a question above about the delay and the UM conduction of the final exams would delay the grading and hence would delay submission of the transcript. How would it affect my admission? I'm from New Delhi, India, by the way.

I think it's an and I have both been to New Delhi. We both went India. It's beautiful. It's not going to do it affect your admission. So so, uh, we understand that exams are are. Many of them were postponed. I think that India board exams for now. We don't have an exact date, possibly for when you will be sitting for those. But we know that they are planned. They have not been completely cancelled whenever you sit for them. Anna Anna Mark, she is generated and you have a final score.

For your India exams, we will honor that and receive them at that time. So we are not going to expect students to deliver things that are not available.

Um, where were very practical about that expectation?

Um, so it doesn't negatively affect your admission. It's not going to disadvantage you in any way way. We're just trying to be really flexible, impatient about all of these requirements. Uh, let me see. I'm gonna post a link for you snitch ramitas, since you just joined us to make sure.

You see what's happening?

Within the University of California system regarding um exams.

And squares.

Um question hi, OK stands already answering that awesome thanks.

Anvita is asking how hard is it to move from Humanities to stem majors? Not hard. So um, the beauty about studying in the United States is that, UM, there's so much flexibility you can really customize your field of study however you like. We don't expect that at age 17 and 18 students have already decided forever what they want to do the rest of their life. So we make it really easy for you to explore. And students here have the opportunity to double major if you want to put.

Um engineering and music together, or managerial economics and Spanish so you can double major. You can triple major. It doesn't even have to be in the same college so you see Davis is divided into colleges. We have over 100 majors that you can choose from an. All of these majors.

Are housed under organized under.

Blocks within colleges. So we have the College of engineering, the College of biological science, the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science and the College of letters and science. I can absolutely major in something in a biological science and also something from letters and science I can major in minor an I can absolutely change my major so students the majority of our of UC Davis students will change their major at least once before they graduate. It's just super common.

I'm curious and did you ever change your major you came in as a transfer student said or did you like you knew exactly what you wanted to do?

Yeah, I changed my major back in the day. I mean is Super. It's just a common thing in the United States that you will find communications all away. San is a really good communicator. They taught her very well but she has her own innate skills to other questions guys.

If you're shy and you don't keep shooting questions at us, I'm gonna start asking you all questions. I love asking questions.

I'm looking at the list of ones that were already submitted.

Think we got most of those?

There is a question about signing up for classes. How do we sign up for classes? Can I take a music class even if I'm not majoring in music? Yeah, so we I kind of already touched on that. You can absolutely take a music class or or multiple music classes if you're not majoring in music. When we we require students to do general education, it means that you're going to be sampling courses from a lot of different subject areas. You will take classes in subjects that you never dreamed.

That you would.

Have to or or be able to. We have a class and tractor driving that will teach you how to drive a tractor. Ann, if I'm a biological science major or I'm an engineering major, I can still take that class. You can absolutely take a music class. It's just from the list of elective courses that you have the opportunity to choose from.

A man, then, how do you register for classes? So here this is important and it's about orientation. As soon as you Sir, you will be given a checklist again from your my admissions website. It will kind of keep you organized and on track and let you know all of the dates and deadlines. An document expectations that we have that you are required or an expected to provide to us before you enroll you will. You will also be.

Given access to orientation, they will reach out to you to get you signed up for something called Aggie 101 which M is going to be like a series uh it's a um modules where you're going to learn about how to navigate the Davis campus and get you fortified with all of the information that you need to know what you're doing before you even get here. And part of that includes registering for classes.

Dan just posted something, I'm not sure that's no. That's something different. Uhm, so Sam, can you post for them? The orientation please. Orientation website.

The Aggie 101 is going to teach you about how to register for classes an it's going to give you the opportunity and actually require you to make an appointment with an advisor or live appointment or you're talking one on one to an advisor to get you registered for those classes before you even come to campus. So um, there's a lot that students have to know and be able to do when they were in college and we don't want you to have to guess at it. We're going to do our best to give you the information so that you are in.

Shape and you feel like you've got, uhm.

A Head Start for what you need to get done. We don't want any student feeling lost or wondering. did I do everything right that I get all my requirements checked of.-?

Um?

Anvita is asking can you explain the AB and BS degree acronyms so we have a lot of acronyms. I'm wondering if there might even be a Glossary somewhere online or maybe even on our website to to define all the acronyms that we use on campus. The ones I know in terms of the academic part is that you BS is a Bachelor of Science. BA is a Bachelor of Arts BS, Bachelor of Arts and science.

So yeah, it just has to do with the type of degree that you're earning. I'll give you 1 example in psychology, so psychology is one of our most popular majors on campus. Uhm, you have the opportunity to do a Bachelor of Arts in psychology or a Bachelor of Science an when you are pursuing a Bachelor of Science. It just means that your degree will include more science stem classes.

Ann

I'm reading the questions in the shot.

And it is asking about international relations. Oh, that was my major. Uhm, yeah, I what I would suggest for you envy to an anybody who has a very specific question about their major or the majors that they're considering pursuing. You need to go to the UC Davis website, click on the tab for majors and you will see all the courses that you have to take and some background about the major. Some of the awesome and interesting research is that they're currently engaged in in.

Not major, and then we also have a a website called the majors blague San. Can you please post for them? The uh, the URL for the majors blague if you have it, this is a cool site where you can look up your major and see all the interesting things that former students have done within that field of study. An where they have gone on in their careers in an all less access is that they've been having thanks Dan. There it is you guys. So definitely check that but.

Any major specific questions keep in mind when we have over 100 majors, I'm not gonna have all the details and nitty gritty for each one of those. I know a lot about admissions, but each of those majors has its own professional full-time staff advisor, and they're the experts, and they're they're available now, so they are eager to connect with you. If you want to make an appointment with the major adviser for international relations or chemical engineering.

You can absolutely send them an email and and they will set up an appointment to talk to you face to face, one on one and give you all the in depth information about that what's being offered in that major.

Other questions.

And Visa, uh, could you give me some strengths and weaknesses about UC Davis? Weaknesses really?

OK, um strengths about UC Davis. We are ranked #5 in the country girl for UM, best public universities in the United States. Uhm, so we were consistently in the top 10. This is a research institution. So where we are one of the universities in the world that is currently working on a vaccine for coronavirus. We're in the news a lot, so if you lived in the United States and you turn on the television, you watch the TV news CNN.

Anyone of those news outlets you will hear the name UC Davis alot and that's because of the important research that we do on our campus that leads to advancements in all different fields and industries.

Strengths again, I'm going to say it's our community and the collaborative spirit that we have. The collaborative culture that we have on campus. So even though we are admitting students who are at the tops of their classes an it's a very Brainy University. It's our students are really, really smart.

But they don't take themselves too seriously, and they're all about helping each other. Uhm, they know that they have access. They will all have access to internships, an research opportunities. It's what we do here were very undergraduate focused. Those opportunities are abundant, so we are. We don't worry about um competing against each other. We compete against ourselves to make each and everyone of us better, but.

We work together to make sure we're all excelling in advancing, so I think that's probably one of our biggest strings.

Weaknesses.

I don't know. I'm seriously trying to think of a weakness.

We're kind of awesome at everything since I don't know if you were but a different thought about a weakness.

Let's see.

So lots of questions about on line.

Instruction Jasmine is asking can you change majors before you start at UC Davis? Uhm, you're welcome in beta, so you cannot change your major yet. The only rule that we have is we want you to hang out for at least 1/4 before you change your major. That said, it's totally fine when you make. When you get your appointment with your advisor at orientation to tell them, just give him a heads up, say hey, this is the major that was on my application.

I'm not really feeling it anymore. This is what I'm this is the major. I'm actually looking at right now or exploring and they will set you up with whatever classes would be in common for those majors that you're not wasting anytime and they will get you on track to actually switch over to the new major later on. But you have to wait for at least one quarter before that becomes an official change on your record.

1/4 is is it short period of time is only about 10 weeks so it goes. It goes by fast.

Another question about deferred enrollment, can you apply for deferment? You're welcome judgment. Can you apply for deferment after you accept the offer? Yeah, you can only apply for deferment after you accept the offer. So first you have to Sir and then once you do that you'll see the opportunity to defer your enrollment. I mentioned earlier that you have up to the first day of instruction to tell us that you want to defer, so some students are thinking I want to just kind of hang out and write it out through the summer.

Not sure you know what the situation is gonna look like. I'm going to wait to see what the fall, uhm, uh. The fall plan is I'm going to wait to see how my family feels and then I want to decide if I want to stay home for another quarter or a little bit longer or I want to come to campus so we know that's a big decision. That's why we give you time to make it.

You can defer your enrollment from anywhere between one quarter Anna whole year.

Ahsan's got an answer to the weakness question.

Sam says a weaknesses Davis is a hard place to leave.

Love.

A true King is asking you to the cover situation. When will you say is the ideal time to travel to Davis? I don't know. I have to be super honest about that. We're all just waiting and hanging out and watching the situation closely.

Um, we're still being as optimistic as possible.

Uhm, I will just say that orientation Anan in terms of your your I-20. We don't want you to arrive on campus more than like a month or or arrive in Davis more than one month before your classes actually start. Some students when I come a little bit early just to get get acquainted with the city and with California and and figure out their living situation for us, you do have time to do that, but I have no idea what to advise you in terms of.

Went to book your tickets.

So just wait and see, um S ISS is also a really good resource for you if you're an international student and you have to get a visa to come to the United States, they are your people. Sanders posted their website. They have an FA QS section, so a lot of questions that have been already asked them from students all over the world is posted there with in depth answers. Please check that out. These are the people who are going to be taking care of you.

In terms of um, preparing your eye 20s um, getting you ready for that, that appointment at the embassy to come to the United States an they're the ones that are going to announce any changes in in in that whole space if anything happens.

There is a question about the statement of legal residency. I had some issues regarding the SLR form. I haven't been able to gain access. The deadline is May 1. I did send an email but haven't heard back yet. Is there a particular Department or person that I can get in contact with regarding that?

So I'm gonna say, um.

You need to still a chase after the people in the registers office. I'm going to leave you my emails for me to. I don't know if I'm saying your name right.

Sweet that.

Hope I'm saying that right. I'm giving you my email here if you wanna send me an email I will also follow up with that UM Department for you.

There you go.

Other questions you guys.

Can I ask you all a question?

Uh, I'm wondering, um, what's the first thing that you can't wait to do again after this whole situation? And now we can just call it the situation? We know what we're talking about after this whole kovid situation blows over and the world is.

Settled again, what's the thing that you can't wait to do first?

No one wants to answer that question.

Traveling.

Yeah, so so a little bit about what's an and I do. Um, part of our.

Part of our job means that we we travel around to different countries and we visit schools and we get normally. We get to do what we're doing here, um face to face. So this is this is different for us. We're getting used to it, but it's not our favorite favorite. Our favorite thing is engaging with students and and schools and parents in person face to face. So yeah, we're we're all missing that part of our job and missing just getting out there and being in your countries and.

Engaging with the people in the culture is there.

Alright, it looks like it's slowing down any last burning questions before we closeout this session.

Human interactions, yeah. For sure I miss people.

And I'm an introvert and I'm saying that, but I really miss people. I miss you too, Sam.

Alright guys, I think I'm gonna close this out. Good luck with everything you can. Still recent reach us on WhatsApp. Make sure you scan this QR code if you haven't done so already. Um and um, my best to all of you and please stay safe and stay healthy.

By everybody.

Hope to see you in the fall bye bye.