“Give yourself a mountain, the view at the top is worth the climb.”

It has only been seven weeks but I can truthfully say that this experience has changed my life thus far. When I arrived, my roommate met me and helped me bring my belongings from the airport shuttle to our home

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A Journey Through India’s Spiritual Landscape

India is overwhelming at every level to the first timer. The hustle and bustle, the constant cacophony of car horns, beggars, markets, lack of sewage all hit you as you first step out of the airport. India is an experience

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O-Week, Niagara Falls and Hail Stones

                        If I had to sum up Canada in one word, my immediate thought would be ‘huge’. Huge cars, huge roads, huge distances between literally everything, huge portions… you

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HURON! Oi Oi Oi!

Arriving in Canada for Huron’s International Pre-Orientation week barely gave me any time to catch my breath – or recover from the jet lag – before being thrown head-first into Western’s ‘O-Week’. After some hesitance and confusion at the constant

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Canada eh?

From hearing the formidable tornado alarms to being woken up by our residence sophs at 7am every morning during o-week; the first 10 days as a ‘frosh’ at Western University has been a complete whirlwind!   Yes, being in university

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London Is Calling

Deleware, Deleware, Del-A-Ware echoes through the residence. There is no doubt that Canadians have school spirit. O-Week, known in the UK as “Freshers”, is packed with rallies, dances, chants and my personal favourite a 7AM wake up call. As the

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