Nepal meets Görlitz

On October 12, 2107, our graduate Kamila Hrubá (ATb08) made a brief stop at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences while traveling between the United Kingdom and India to speak to students in the “Economics and Languages” degree programme about her professional career following the completion of her bachelor’s degree in “English/Czech Translation.”

After completing her master’s degree in “Project Management” at IHI Zittau, she moved to Nepal. There, she worked for just under a year as an English teacher in a small village and, a year later, as an assistant to the Consul General of the Czech Republic in the capital, Kathmandu. Her wide-ranging responsibilities there also included interpreting and translating.

Since returning to her hometown of Liberec in Northern Bohemia, she has been translating for renowned Czech publishing houses in Czech, German, and English. She brought some of the books she has translated with her to Görlitz. She is currently also working for Czech travel agencies and traveling with tour groups in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

She mentioned in passing that she had met the Dalai Lama and would soon be beginning her studies in India. But there was simply no time left to talk about that...

90 minutes of enthusiasm for the country and its people, other cultures, ways of life and worldviews, a passion for travel, and, last but not least, a passion for translating books that express these ways of life and worldviews.

A wonderful afternoon for everyone who was there.