Dian - A Law Student at Catholic University of Soegiyopranoto - ( UNIKA ) Semarang - September 2014

Dian, our newest sponsored student, started her student orientation in September of 2014. After one month of coaching on how to start a new life as an adult student, Dian is ready to live away from her parents for the first time. I walked her through her first week outside campus life, in the morning before she went to school, and after school in the afternoon. During Dian's first two weeks of her studies at Catholic University of Soegiyopranoto Semarang (Rofi, Irwan, Dian, and I) tried to have breakfast together every morning, and dinner every evening. I encouraged our students to share thoughts, ideas, and offered support to one another.

Left to right: Rofi majors on computer programming at Udinus, Irwan majors on graphic design at Stekom, and Dian a law major at Unika Soegiyopranoto.

I had also challenged Dian, as I did with other students, to meet a new friend on campus per day for the first two weeks. This time I asked Dian to invite all her new friends over for lunch and that I would be doing all the cooking of the food for her friends. Not only would it give me the pleasure of seeing our "daughter" attending university, but also to see the evidence that Dian really met her goal of meeting 10 friends would be an awesome experience. Photo below are her new friends she met during the first 2 weeks of being on campus.