LAURA
HAYWARD
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- mangotango2000@hotmail.com
- 26/09/81
- ISSE 1992
-1999
- Currently
completed her second year of a
four-year course in International
and European Law, still living in
the Eindhoven area
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In 1999,
we asked
Where do you see
yourself in ten years time?
I see myself either herding sheep in
Australia or perhaps becoming minister
for education. I picture myself married
and awaiting the arrival of my first baby
In 2002,
we asked
What have you been
up to since leaving the ISSE?
After
finishing IB, I left in September 1999 on
my lovely long holiday. Mark and I went
travelling for 9 months. We spent 6 of
those months touring around Australia and
working occasionally. We also spent a
month in New Zealand and several weeks in
Hawaii, before going to Canada on the way
home. It all feels very long ago now, but
we had a great time. When we got back to
Holland I started studying at the
University in Tilburg, and I’m now
in my third year of International and
European Law.
What are your
plans for the coming year(s)?
I still
have two full years to go on my course,
and I plan to enjoy them as much as
possible. I’m trying to take as many
courses that will be useful in the future
as possible, including brushing up my
French and getting some practical
experience with MUN-like conferences. In
other words, busy, but exciting. When I’m
done I want to do a second masters,
while my parents are still willing to
contribute to my student life and further
education. I’ll probably take an
international relations masters, and then
try to find work at the UN (hopefully,
maybe…….?)
Any particular memories of events/people/scandals
from the ISSE?
For me,
the trouble with memories from the ISSE
is simply that there are far too many of
them to process efficiently. But get two
or more ex-ISSE-ers together, and add a
bottle of wine, and the result is several
hours of stomach-splitting laughter as
you reminisce about all the ludicrous
things that happened.
Like Mr Wenting shouting out across the
Aula that it was not a chicken farm (?!?!?);
Mr Short making sure that every school
play involved a strip-tease act at some
point (where is it in Bram Stokers
Dracula that the stripping occurs
exactly?); Wednesday afternoon physics
lessons until 16.20 with Anthony and
David making sure that Mr McGregor was
enjoying them even less than us;
our IB2 stunt day being officially “banned”,
which only served to ensure that we all
showed up, bright and early to reek as
much havoc as possible (and it was a
success?!?); and thousands more precious
moments like that from the 7 years I
spent at the ISSE. I certainly enjoyed
being a member of a class with such a
horrific reputation, that went on to do
pretty well, and at least we left our
mark.
For more memories, just bring a bottle of
wine to Geldrop, and we can be
sentimental together sometime…………..
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