Student Story

Henrik Dombovári

Hello! I’m Henrik. I was grown up in a small town, about 100km from Budapest.
it has a population of about 30thousand I liked it there.

What is it like to grow up in Hungary?
I enjoyed the small town, everything was a walking distance and I could just walk to school.
all my friends lived close so we could hang out easily.
After high school, moved to the Budapest for university studies. I’ve travelled a lot with my parents while growing up but still, that was a huge move for me.

What can you tell us about the new student in a big city?
Being in the capital city, two million people living there, life was more dynamic.
been studying accounting for two years but remembering all the fun we had travelling meeting new people
I realised that I want to be around people more than being in an office, then I moved to China.

How was it in China?
I was there for three months I worked there as a consultant on a summer camp. It was just great.
1st summer on my own in a country far away from my hometown.
Pretty much we were leading activities and working with children like 24/7 It was challenging though. first days I was struggling with food and Chinese people don’t really speak English.
but it was definitely worth it to experience the new cultures and ways of living.
After coming back to Hungary I decided not to continue accounting, so just took the semester off to reflect what do I want.
Took a job cause I needed the money and then went back to study economic management.

How and why XAMK?
I was listening to music on Spotify then an add just came up, dig into it and here we are. I believe things happen for a reason.
Been working and saving for coming here. I’d wanted to be different and going back home with a degree you can have a decent job even more.

How do you feel about XAMK education?
It’s very good. We had this course intercultural competence and the objective was to write 5 core values to 5 different papers.
First We had to throw away the least important one and still was very difficult.
The second time we had to throw away our closest classmate, it didn’t hurt that much cause it was about the others guy feelings.
Third, we had to throw it away from the most important value! I mean what a lesson? what can be important for me might mean nothing for you!

What comes after studies?
It’s essential to know how to stand with people to use negotiation skills. I think you have to sell yourself out there
There are many people with the same qualities, the same education background but you have to find that thing that makes you different
and that’s the thing I was looking to Xamk and in Finland and in China.
I believe I will go back home and my parents business is a local so I might take it to the international level.