Introducing our 2020 OzTREKK Student Ambassadors!
If you’re considering studying outside of Canada, you know you have a lot to think about: Which university and program should you choose? Where should you live? Where are the best places to eat? What do you do in your spare time? Can you take your degree home to practice? The questions are innumerable!
Well, we’re here to help. In order to give you a real, first-person perspective, we are proud to feature OzTREKK Student Ambassadors.
No one knows what it’s like to live and study in Australia better than our students, so we have asked a few OzTREKK students to document their day-to-day life in Australia, their universities and programs, and much more!
What do OzTREKK Ambassadors do?
- Explore Australia, their university, and their program
- Tell an authentic story: not only what studying in Australia is like, but also living, social adventures, and travels
- Raise awareness: you have study options
What is their mission?
- To share their story in their own unique voice
- To show the real side of studying abroad (the good, the bad, the ugly)
- An opportunity for them to document their year
Meet Our 2020 OzTREKK Ambassadors!
Jennifer Atkinson
University: Monash University
Program: Teacher Education
Current year: Starting February 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? Everything at Tim Hortons! But also Coffee Crisp, loonies and toonies, and all-dressed chips! Oh, also saying sorry frequently and it being normal.
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Matt Bryan
University: Macquarie University
Program: Chiropractic
Current year: Starting third year in 2020
What do you miss most about Canada? Snowboarding!
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Ali Samhat
University: Bond University
Program: Law
Current year: Continuing first year (September start)
What do you miss most about Canada? I miss Tim Hortons coffee and Ice Capps the most, especially since the coffee is definitely not the same here in Australia.
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Brittani Kwok
University: Griffith University
Program: Dentistry
Current year: Starting February 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? Tim’s Boston cream donuts; The Toronto Raptors; my boyfriend; friends and family; toques. Not the snow, that’s for sure.
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Jacqueline and Levi Atamanchuk
University: Griffith University
Program: Medicine
Current year: Starting January 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? We’ll miss BC autumns. Levi and I met in the fall, started all of our undergraduate semesters in the fall, and got married this past fall! We love the feeling of sunny, yet cold, crisp mornings and the warm colours of falling leaves. We also love to sport our predictably Canadian flannel button-ups and toques!
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Chrysten Peddle
University: James Cook University
Program: Dentistry
Current year: Starting February 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? I will miss Tim’s coffee and breakfast sandwiches, the maple syrup season, beaver tails, apple picking and eating apples right off the tree, my cottage in cottage country, Niagara Falls and ice skating in February.
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Ryan Churchill
University: Deakin University
Program: Medicine
Current year: Starting January 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? I have a routine for what I eat every day, but I don’t know if those items (e.g., Almond Butter Nature Valley Granola Cups) are in Australia or not! I’ll have to wait and see what I can and can’t get in the grocery store.
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Gabrielle Stratford
University: University of Western Australia
Program: Medicine
Current year: Starting second year in 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? I definitely miss Timmy’s (coffee, hot chocolate, ice capps), but I also *especially* miss my family, my dogs, and snow!
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Francis Tungcol
University: Flinders University
Program: Physiotherapy
Current year: Starting second year in 2020
What will you miss most about Canada? These are just a few things I’ll miss in Canada: The diversity of food; sports culture; the friendly Canadians; affordable coffee (but not necessarily the best-tasting haha); the city view; the music industry. I won’t miss the cold.
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And kindly returning from last year…
Kimberly Li
University: University of Sydney
Program: Occupational Therapy
Current year: Starting second year in 2020
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Emma Blackwood
University: Macquarie University
Program: Medicine
Current year: Starting second year in February 2020
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