Podcast Two
The following is a podcast two, interviews that took place with two specialists in overseas student issues.
W: William Go A: Advisor Q: Question
William Go
Insearch is a multicultural place, here gathered lots of students they coming from different country and they have different background and culture, as well as these students have different eating habit. Australia is more tend to be a western culture country and all the food here are different. Overseas students first came here may suffer a lot of problem, to adjusting the food here is one of the major problems here. Now we will interview two specialists in this field, and talk about their opinion of overseas students eating habit.
Q: As a specialist of overseas student, what do you think eating habit of overseas students who study at UTS Insearch?
W: As far as I know, obviously I spend the most of my working time dealing with students; I think they live a pretty unhealthy life. I talked to several of the students here, their living condition is not really satisfying and they wouldn’t be able to get three meal settled.
A: Insearch student service center is also in charge of the homestay family for some overseas student. And the basic requirement of all the homestay families is guarantee that overseas students can get three meals a day and a better living condition. But still have some students complain about their homestay families about their food, students complained that their homestay family no be able to provide to them a healthy food.
Q: To your opinion, do you think that it is very important for the overseas students in Insearch should form a healthy eating habit? Why?
W: Of course it is very important, a better body is based on a healthy eating and living habit. As all the Insearch students know, in order to enrich all the overseas life here Insearch always organize a lot of activities and competition, such as table tennis competition, BBQ party or Blue mountain trip, etc. To form a healthy eating habit will help students will their study also.
A: I think it is very important for the students to have a healthy eating habit, as an advisor of Insearch, I help students with their problems, Insearch always courage students to ask for teacher for help if you have any problems. I think overseas students are live with their own and they are far away from their parents, so to form a healthy eating habit is very very important.
Q: As far as you know, do you think there is enough information about healthy eating for the overseas students? Do you thing people in this field should provide more information and help to overseas students with their healthy diet?
W: As far as I know, there are seldom websites and campaigns about this kind of issue, and the solution hardly can satisfy the need of overseas students. According to this I think it is very important to people in this field pay much more attention on this issue.
A: I agree that there should be more websites and campaign for overseas students that helping with their eating habit. As I mentioned before that it is important for overseas students to form a healthy eating habit in order to help them with their study.