Edward Dunn, Potsdam October 2016

My name’s Edward Dunn and I’ve been in Potsdam (Germany) for about two weeks now and I am feeling very settled in. It’s strange, because I feel like the friends I’ve made here, the experiences I’ve had and the memories

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Summer abroad in California

This summer I spent 8 weeks studying at the University of California, Berkeley and all I can really say is that the experience was amazing and I enjoyed every single moment of it, not once did I feel homesick. I

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University in Madrid: politics, relaxed exams and a lack of lined paper

My year abroad has come to an end! A lot has happened in the last few months, but, seeing as I spent the year as a student, I thought I’d focus this post on the differences between my home university

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Feeding the flirty homeless and other anecdotes

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com]. Hi! No theme to the blog post this week, just a few anecdotes and things I’ve done since last time… This semester I’ve started to get more involved in ESN (Erasmus Student Network) activities,

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Multiple languages, multiple personalities?

For me, being a language student has for years entailed speaking the target language in the classroom and mainly switching back to English otherwise. However, living in Spain for my year abroad has started to give me a different perspective

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Continuing hobbies on year abroad

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Rewind to the beginning of my second year, and I was running around SUSU (the Students’ Union at Southampton Uni) trying out lots of taster sessions, including a lot of martial arts (I had

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