In this article, I want to share with you my experience of studying with professionals from 26 different countries in India. It was a challenging, enriching and adventure-filled trip.

In order to tell you about this experience, let's see what a typical day at the university was like. My day began at 7 am, advancing the pending of the NGO that I manage with my husband, "Preservando".

Afterwards, we all went to the dining room to have breakfast and get ready for classes, which began at 9 am. The bus was waiting for us to take us to the auditorium, where we began with icebreakers and fun and very reflective dynamics related to the topic we had covered the day before.

The classes mixed theories, workshops and many practical cases. We had 6 classes a day, 90 minutes each, and in between we had two tea breaks and lunch. The content was interesting and we participated a lot. We were all professionals with experience from different sectors, both governmental and private.

In the cross-cultural communication class, the participation was very rich since we all represented a country and had classmates from Tajikistan, Armenia, Kenya, Madagascar, Guyana, Sri Lanka, Belize, Croatia, Cameroon, Mali, Ghana, Malavi, Uganda , Romania, Vietnam, Jamaica, Uzbekistan, Trinidad and Tobago, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Bhutan, among others.

I learned a lot from being in contact with different nations, which I will be able to apply in my day-to-day work.

The 7+ instructors were amazing and told us about their experiences in different countries and industries. The quality of the classes totally exceeded my expectations. For example, both for the job at Nestlé and for Preserving, I use storytelling a lot and having a Bollywood director explain how to apply it took the class to another level.

Also, I remember with great appreciation a professor with whom we spent certain tea breaks talking about Design Thinking.

Discussions were generated where we learned a lot from the group and although during the two weeks all English was spoken, which was not the mother tongue of many of us, communication always flowed well.

The school day ended at 5 pm, always with a feedback survey for the day, and then I went to the gym on campus, because the mountain season is coming and preparation is a key point for me. At the end of my routine, I walked to the university guest house where we were all staying.

But, it would be an incomplete trip if after traveling for almost 3 days taking 3 flights I had not seen emblematic places in India. Look at the detail in this post, where I tell you my cultural experience.