Hello! My name is Mang and I just spent a year studying in Nanjing, China. Although I loved each and every experience, here are some of the things I wish I knew beforehand to make my year abroad a little
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Tips on surviving a year abroad in China
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
Read moreFeeding 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,
Read moreNew Year Adventures – Oaxaca, Toluca and Malinalco
It’s been exactly 2 months since my last blog, so safe to say a lot has happened! Between going home, travelling, starting work again and experiencing more or less every emotion inbetween there hasn’t been a lot of time for
Read moreMultiple 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
Read moreConociendo Chile
Hello Everyone! Now that I have spent six months in Chile, I am in a pretty good position to write my first blog post for the university on the Santander Scholarship. I have another blog alongside this one which can
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