‘Dear Epsom’: a poetic autoethnography on campus as home of an international doctoral student in Aotearoa New Zealand

This article delineates my place attachment and sense of home in Epsom campus, University Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, where I studied for PhD two periods time: during the first year programme, when was established; returned to Vietnam six-month research trip stranded due Covid-19 pandemic, leading campus being weakened disrupted. Using poetic autoethnography as methodology, recount personal experiences how grew attached university a physical place, social spaces cultural diversity, friendship, academic student identity development. The offers an analysis unique emotional experience on off involuntarily, which is hardly found extant literature international mobility students’ lived experiences.