About the school:
“UWC schools, colleges and programmes deliver a challenging and transformative educational experience to a diverse cross section of students, inspiring them to create a more peaceful and sustainable future.”
United World College is an education movement with fourteen schools scattered around the globe, students live at the colleges for two years and study the world renowned (and feared) International Baccalaureate program. The IB aims to create a well rounded, open minded student by integrating public service, action and creativity into the curriculum and including Theory of Knowledge in the course.
Check out this video for a clear explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRn_FTgcJv0
UWC’s mission and values :
“UWC makes education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future”
- International and intercultural understanding
- Celebration of difference
- Personal responsibility and integrity
- Mutual responsibility and respect
- Compassion and service
- Respect for the environment
- A sense of idealism
- Personal challenge
- Action and personal example
Why am I going to UWC?
As you can probably tell attending UWC is a very unique and challenging experience. This is exactly what attracted me in the first place, I was looking for a peer group that would inspire me to strive to reach the best of my abilities and an atmosphere that would encourage me to grow as a person, ultimately I was looking for a life changing experience and everyone said that’s exactly what UWC was.
My initial interest in UWC actually developed when my sister was considering applying, we had met several people from UWC in the past and all of them had been some of the most inspiring people I had ever encountered. However I didn’t truly realise just how life changing UWC was until my sister was accepted and I started meeting, and becoming close to people attending the school. Every time I was exposed to the UWC students as a group I was shocked; I had never seen a peer group interact so honestly and passionately, a conversation could go from opposing views on politics and current events to the latest gossip from a ‘canteen party’. Whatever your views or contributions to the discussion you were accepted and respected.
I spent many nights over the next two years deeply engrossed by the conversation full of heated debates and hearty laughter and quickly fell in love with these people all of whom told me I HAD to apply to UWC, but trust me, by then I needed little convincing. I chose to go to UWC Adriatic instead of UWC- LPC because I felt that I would be too comfortable attending the school in my home city that I knew so well, and after all I wanted to go to UWC to challenge myself.
So, simply put I applied to UWC because all the awesome and motivating people that I met from the colleges over the years, each and everyone of them told me that if I was looking to change my life forever that UWC was where I needed to go, and here I am six years after first hearing about UWC just weeks away from starting at the college myself, and I couldn’t be more excited.
Adventures on the Adriatic 