Nataliia Kysil (Alumna 2013)

For me, the time I had in Strobl, will always be one of the best summers in my life. I would like to say my huge thanks to the SHS for the scholarship and such a unique opportunity that only few people from my country had - to visit Austria and the amazing Salzburg region. And of course to obtain the knowledge that helped me in the following next years.

SHS was an amazing combination of summer vacation at the lake with lots of sports and fun activities and studies. I met so many great people with whom I still get in touch and we are planning to visit each other. In Strobl I also tried the first time in my life waterskiing, windsurfing, true Viennese waltz dancing and climbing the alps. I will never forget this experience. I want to say my big thanks to all the team of the SHS - professors, assistant staff, sport instructor Chris, language teachers - everything was super good organized to provide us with a very intense, but really fantastic program. It was one month of craziness, challenges (sometimes difficulties), happiness and joy. I travelled in this month so much, I never travelled before. It was also my first time I met so many people from different parts of the world in one place and got to know close different cultures that also taught me to be tolerant and patient. Thank you, SHS, for the opportunity to have such experience.

My studies in the SHS helped me in the future to win a grant to do my Master in the Netherlands at Maastricht University for the program I wanted. The university gave me full a scholarship. And I believe this also happened because I had already experience in studying and living abroad and successful experience in getting a scholarship from the SHS.

I remember always with the warmest words SHS time, Strobl, St.Wolfgang, amazing people that surrounded me during 1 month. A separate thanks to Nina Gruber - the administrator of program, for the opportunity she gave me to see the world.

I will be very happy to meet in future people that are always on my mind when I say or read SHS.

And of course congrats to St Wolfgang with 60th anniversary! For me Austria will always be the country with one of the cleanest water and one of the most beautiful nature and landscapes I have ever seen!

Nataliia Kysil
Strobl Alumna 2013