Hello everyone! My name is Diane Kabanyana, and I don’t have an official nickname, except the new ones my grandma calls me daily. I am currently a junior business major with poverty studies distinction here at Birmingham Southern College. I am originally from Rwanda; it is in East Africa for those who don’t know where that is in the world map. I want to go to graduate school after college. And, I am planning to pursue a master’s in business law in Canada but got plenty of options after visiting Australia in December; Currently, I will either go to Canada or Australia for graduate school. I always wanted to be a lawyer but wasn’t sure of what kind of lawyer I wanted to be until I learned about business lawyers, which caught my interest.
The main reason I took this class, first, I love science but don’t like me back that much. The fact that this class was a science but not an intense one that provides the significant knowledge that everyone would want to have about the infectious diseases was my main motive for choosing it. Second, diseases, especially infectious outbreaks, are the frequent disasters we deal with daily, especially in my continent; there is always a high probability of getting infected with any of the infectious diseases if nothing is done to prevent them. In that case, I am looking forward to learning the origins, cause, and spreading ways of some of the common and rare infectious diseases in the world. Also, I am hoping to determine the possible ways of preventing it permanently or the temporal procedures taken against the spreading.
The neat fact about me would like to share is that I speak four languages; French, Kinyarwanda, Swahili, and English. When it comes to the game, Chess is my favorite. I also can write and read Braille, a form of written language for blind people. And, if money and time were no object, I would probably go back to Australia; I still want to explore more states and lifestyle there.