Arriving At My New Home

Leaving home to study abroad, whether it be for a Summer program, a semester abroad or a year abroad, is an experience like nothing else. Although I had essentially ‘left home’ ten months earlier when I moved from the town

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Applying to Study Abroad

Studying abroad has always been an idea that appealed to me, and was a considerable reason why I applied to study in Southampton in the first place. For numerous reasons, my first semester of first year wasn’t a very enjoyable

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Perth, WA: The One Where I Talk About Real Life

As was mentioned in my last entry, the month of October was always bound to be when I had to hit the books. With four essays to write and then an exam on the 1st of November, there has been

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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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Perth, WA: The One Where I Go Exploring

Having been in Perth for nearly two months I’d done quite a lot in the city, and settled into college life and the monotony of lectures and tutorials, the latter of which are enlivened in the arts by the fact

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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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