The reason behind to create this blog!!!!!!!

January 20th 2009. Today I have been introduced to the a new course which is “managing across cultures”………..when I first checked the course outline it made me laugh because when I came across cultural awareness it reminded me all the way back to my under-graduation time (Cyprus college).


Its was in 2004 spring semester I had been given the opportunity to choose my courses and I have to choose one elective course and I choose intercultural communication and awareness from another major which is not even a part of my program . I still remember that day when my advisor and friends asked me what was the reason to choose that program and I just couldn’t explain them why????

But after completing that course I went back to my advisor and said!!!!! We need to have a course like this in our program. Because being in the hospitality, we need to understand diversity between culture to culture. During our work place we meet and deal with people from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. but the course advisor was not convinced…….i tried but I failed to do so…… during my practical training I went to work in intercontinental hotel, Cyprus

where they have staff of 43 different nationalities during my internship in that hotel it made me realize that its very important to know different cultures. After two and half years when I was graduating from the school…….my advisor gave me a copy of the reviewed course outline for the hotel management program……and I was surprised to see a particular course with a title “Cultural Awareness” and it’s a mediatory……..!!!!!!

One our first day….Dr. Bowerman (our course lecturer) asked us to create a blog and write about our experiences and list the things that we have learned in our weekly classes…….so that was the reason to create this blog…..so that I will express what I have learned in the class room……..