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Six months after... I am home
For six months you have been in your country. Your life begins
to get organized professionally. You put into practice the education
acquired in the French universities. Very fast, you realize that,
to go farther in your project, you need to restore the link with
the country which allowed you to widen your cultural horizon. Several
possibilities are at your disposal so that the links with France
do not slacken too much.
This is the list :
Go to the French embassy in your country to register free of charge
on the program of follow-up/return of the foreign students who attended
classes in France. The
" Aster " software, operational since 1995 will allow you to keep
posted about all the events linked to your research field. Through
this, you will have the possibility of receiving some documentation
on a problem you are interested in, to participate in cultural meetings,
etc. (ASTER software, e-mail : cnoaster@paris7.jussieu.fr).
Please, keep the links with your friends who live in France. Write
them by mail letters or E-mail. Please, surf on the Internet to
exchange your information.
Do not to lose what you had maybe difficulty in improving, that
is the practice of the French language, listen to Radio France international,
go to the organisations and the French cultural centres. You can
also bring, during an exhibition or during a conference, an interesting
testimony on your own experience.
Do not lose sight the links between your country and France. Try
to build bridges in all the sectors, that it is in the economic,
political, social fields, etc., you will maybe organize meetings
with competent persons which will end up, why not, with bilateral
agreements which will make both parts in contact progress.
Constitute a file of the French persons living on your territory.
Get in touch with them and try to encourage them to participate,
for cultural events, in a network of friendship or work among these
persons and people of your country.
If you want it you can create an association gathering people from
your country who have studied in France.
Speak of your own experience to the future students who will come
to train in France. They will be eager to discover and to know what
you lived. Give them advice so that they could avoid certain traps
and so that they could completely savour the good sides of life
in France.
This list is not exhaustive, and you will immortalize your way this
privileged link which you have with France. But share it ! Motivate
the Frenchmen so that they have the desire to build something with
you, with your country.
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