By Jewel Konieczny I first fell in love with Vienna on screen, in what is now one of my favourite films and the first of Linklater’s Trilogy: Before Sunrise. This year, I was fortunate enough to spend the summer semester
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Vienna off-screen
Tips to make your Canadian Year abroad easier
I spent my year abroad in London Ontario Canada at Huron college where I studied English. The trip had it’s ups and downs but I want to focus on giving some practical tips that will hopefully help. Had I known
Read moreExploring the Pacific Northwest
A couple of months ago I travelled from my exchange university, Humboldt State University in California, to Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland, as part of a week’s break I had in the first semester. Here’s how I got on! ~ Before
Read moreI’m in Philadelphia and I Need More Sportswear
Welcome! This is my first blog post since the start of my year abroad. I’ve been in the USA exactly three weeks now so I thought it was about the right time to get this blog-party started. For those of you who
Read moreA Prague Report
1st September 2018 I arrived in Prague – Czech Republic, ready to embark on a 2-weeks journalism programme at Charles University. I had never been to Prague prior to this nor had I spent so long outside of the country
Read moreJournalism School: Czeching out Prague
In September, I spent two weeks in the beautiful city of Prague studying cross-platform journalism, a relatively new strand of journalism which embraces diverse media such as social media, photography, and interactive videos. These forms of broadcasting news and opinion
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