These past 6 months have really been the best months ever! Never have I been so grateful for being given such an amazing opportunity. Studying at the University of Adelaide enabled me to meet many other students of the same
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Returning Home with the Travel Bug
Better late than never
One of the scariest things about the year abroad is the idea of being out of your comfort zone and having to push yourself to talk to native people and make friends with people who potentially wouldn’t be your cup
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I decided to attend the Xiamen Summer School because the city of Xiamen (厦门) and Xiamen University (厦大) are often held in the highest regard by Chinese students. The programme combined academic learning and cultural understanding with economics lectures and social
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Everyone I had talked to about being on an exchange semester/year told me it had been an amazing and highly recommended episode of their lives and explained how much it had changed them. Most of them also mentioned the reverse
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Having to condense 9 months studying abroad into one blog post is proving to be much more of a challenge than I first thought – maybe if I had been more organised and blogged whilst I was away like I
Read moreThe Delights of Geneva
I should like the window to open onto the Lake of Geneva — and there I’d sit and read all day -John Keats, 1819 When I chose to go to CERN I expected to gain some experience in the world
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