Finally this day has come...
For the last one year, this master course took most of my time, stressed me out and made me cry several times.
BUT it allowed me to understand the development and environmental issues from much wider perspectives.
BUT it allowed me to understand the development and environmental issues from much wider perspectives.
And 3rd October, I went back to Norwich again to make this academic year to an end by printing and submitting my dissertation by myself.
So many thanks to my sincere supervisor with his precise and kind advice and directions, my internship supervisor with her generous understanding of my busy circumstances and other people particularly within the ODI who helped me to get contact with key actors for my research.
But above all, I appreciate so much all the people (from the Tanzanian Government, Norwegian embassy, NGOs and research institutes) who accepted to participate in my research through the questionnaire or interview although they are always so busy with their tight working schedule and they have never met me before and even now physically.
Without their participation by sharing their field experience and information, this dissertation could not be completed as it is.
Of course, the whole process was not easy such as the determination of the narrowed topic, the literature review, primary data collection and the dissertation writing.
Without their participation by sharing their field experience and information, this dissertation could not be completed as it is.
Of course, the whole process was not easy such as the determination of the narrowed topic, the literature review, primary data collection and the dissertation writing.
However, I learned so much through the research such as the discursive and perspective gap between national officials and people working with communities, various actors who try to influence the decision-making at national level, the difference in their political power, etc.
Also I was so "satisfied" when I finally understood the theory (that I used) after having analysed my primary data and found the coherence and consistency between the theory and my results.
The evaluation result will come out by the beginning of December.
Let's see how wide the gap of "satisfaction" in the quality of the dissertation between myself and three evaluators (two from my University, one from outside).
Now, it is the time to stop or at least take a long break from studying because since my undergraduate, I have not stopped taking some courses until now!
I will not change my attitude of learning something everyday but I would like to focus on rather professional experience and practice than academic one.
After the submission of my dissertation, I celebrated the moment/day with another course mate who suffered much more than me with her dissertation but managed to submit it on the same day and other friends who still live in Norwich.
We had lots of chats about this academic year.
We had lots of chats about this academic year.
Once it is done, I miss it (a little bit) but if someone asked me to do it again, I would definitely say no thank you without a second of hesitation :p
And as a reward to myself and souvenir from UEA, I bought this.
So I will use it to keep me warm inside of my flat to survive this winter :)
Now (after a decent break), I need to start job hunting...
It seems like very very hard to find a job in this domain within the UK among the Brits...
So Me as a foreigner with few experience, how it is going to be !?
However, all my friends living in Japan have experienced this moment already 3-4 years ago and now they are working well as part of Japanese society.
I cannot live by avoiding this hurdle of life as a human being!
I cannot live by avoiding this hurdle of life as a human being!
I will do my best with the spirit of "Nothing ventured, nothing gained" !!!
