{"id":146539,"date":"2019-03-07T08:05:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=146539"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:02:35","slug":"education-abroad-lisa-darminova-19-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/03\/education-abroad-lisa-darminova-19-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Abroad: Lisa Darminova ’19, Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UConn Education Abroad program allows students to gain rich experience in other cultures by immersing themselves in the educational and social life of another country. At UConn, more than 400 programs spanning 54 nations are available. In the 2017-18 academic year, about 19 percent of the graduating class had participated in one of the programs, well above the national average of 10 percent. More than half of those students had spent a semester or year in another country. Here is one of them.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Darminova '19 with her brother-in-law Maximilian Klopsch, who came to visit, eating dim sum in Hong Kong. (Submitted Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"lisa7\"<\/a>
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Lisa Darmoniva '19, with other study abroad students Pierre Gugenheim (McGill) Peter Starr (University College London) Angela Villella (UConn) Ellen Zhang (UC Irvine) in Seoul, South Korea. (Submitted Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"lisa5\"<\/a>
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Lisa Darminova joins other study abroad students, (l to r) Carole Borsetti, Noura El Sehemawi, and Allison Quinn for a ride in a tuk tuk in Siem Reap, Cambodia. (Submitted Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"lisa3\"<\/a>
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Lisa Darminova '19 enjoys the samplings on a food tour throughout Sham Shui Po with her sister, her sister Maria Klopsch. (Submitted Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"lisa4\"<\/a>
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Lisa Darminova and Angela Villella, both of UConn, and Ellen Zhang of UC Irvine wander through the cherry blossoms in Hong Kong. (Submitted Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"lisa6\"<\/a>
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Lisa Darminova with Ellen Zhang of UC Irvine on the peak in Hong Kong during sunset. (Submitted Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

Name:<\/strong> Lisa Darminova
\nYear:<\/strong> Senior
\nMajor:<\/strong> Applied mathematics, with a minor in computer science
\nProgram:<\/strong> Hong Kong, spring semester 2017<\/p>\n

About:<\/strong> Darminova was born in Munich, Germany, and moved to Avon, Connecticut, with her family in her sophomore year of high school. She chose UConn because of her belief in public education. Darminova graduates this May and has already accepted a position with PwC in New York City, starting in August.<\/p>\n

How did you get interested in education abroad?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI actually didn\u2019t know you could do it until my freshman year, when I was placed in a learning community called Global House. I was there with other freshmen and sophomores, but also with foreign exchange students who came to UConn for a semester or a year. My friends and I got to know the exchange students and saw how much they were getting out of being here. We naturally decided that we wanted to do the same. I wanted to go to Asia and picked Hong Kong. There were six other UConn students that went with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

What classes did you take?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI took some of my general education classes there at the University of Hong Kong. Classes like the Urbanization of Hong Kong and Chinese History. We did projects like going to the rural areas of Hong Kong and writing about it. We studied different kinds of buildings, and how much work went into getting their skyline perfect. No building is allowed to block the view of the mountains, and there is a lot of planning on how tall and how wide each building should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took classes outside of my comfort zone, like an art history class. I learned so much about Hong Kong and China and all the things around it.\u201d<\/p>\n