General English
My name is Cindy Rubbens. I am 20 years old and live in Ekeren, which is a satellite town of Antwerp (Belgium). On the picture you can see our cathedral and the river Schelde. I really love my city and I miss it.
At an early age I got in touch with Britain because my father worked for International companies like Timeplex, Teleos and Motorola. Although these companies aren’t all British, he worked a lot with the English. I grew up with the knowledge that there is more than Belgium alone because my father travelled from one country to another.
I am a very creative person. In the last year of secondary school in Joma, all students have to make a project around one subject. We had to make a software program for a paper shop. At the end of the year everybody handed in two bundles A4 size (technical and user manual). My user manual on the other hand looked like a calendar where you have to flip over the pages. It is small, handy and you can put it next to your computer screen! I very much like working with computers. I have a picture of myself sitting behind our computer when I was 5 years old! From the age of 9, I was working with “Word” because my father told me it was a game! It was a good idea of him, because I now know all Microsoft Office programs by heart.
I also play the piano. I started with it when I was eight years old and I loved it ever since. My teacher Samra Mackic organised that I could play the piano other, than only in my music school. I played at a classical festival and in other music schools like Geel and Tessenderlo. I participated in an Avant-Garde course, in writing my own music and in music history. I received an award at my graduation of the secondary degree and I received another award in my final graduation degree. I’m shore I don’t have to tell you that music takes a special place in my heart.
As I am studying advertising and communication, I am interested in the
media. My vision of media is that it is an important corner-stone of the
society as we know it. I believe that media and politics run our society
because they both influence the audience and each other. The advertising
course here in Britain is much more interesting than in Belgium. In Belgium
we tend to know a little bit of everything, but here in Britain it is
more important to really know what you are actually taking about. I look
up to Ann Hill and Mark Farewell, they know very much and they have the
ability to pass it on to us, students.
