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People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk\u00a0with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven.<\/p>\n
Name: Karisa Widyadari
\nCountry of origin: Indonesia
\nWork: PDEng Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven Technical University<\/p>\n
When we meet Karisa at Coffeelab, one of her favourite places in the city, she has just returned from six months in Sweden for her work. She is in her second and also last year of her PDEng, the more practical form of a PhD trajectory. \u201cI realised I missed Eindhoven a lot, when I was in Sweden,\u201d Karisa starts her story, \u201cEindhoven is such an energetic city. I like to do a lot of different things, like singing and performing, and here I can do that. In Sweden, I lived in Bor\u00e5s and I had to go to G\u00f6teborg for different activities. Here in Eindhoven, I have everything within reach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore I came to Eindhoven, I studied Applied Mathematics in Enschede for two years. I got the opportunity to continue my academic career in Eindhoven and seized it. Before I came to the Netherlands, my bachelor mentor in Indonesia recommends Eindhoven already. And during my time in Enschede I met up in Eindhoven with people I knew from the orchestra I played in in Indonesia and we played here. So when I could start at the TU\/e, everything fell into place. This was the right direction for me. It felt good. Still the first few months were hard for me. I had to start from scratch again. I was worried about making new friends, but in hindsight, it wasn\u2019t necessary at all to have those worries. There are a lot of great initiatives you can visit to build a social life in this city.\u201d<\/p>\n
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