Occasionally the fact that I’m living in Japan suddenly hits me. Like when I realise I really am on a train in Japan, and I’m managing it by myself, or when I hear a snippet of a conversation and I pick
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Japan: One month in
“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
Read morePacking, packing and more packing!
Humming ‘I’m leaving on a jet plane’ and blurting out the occasional Japanese phrase shows me to be in the strange no man’s land of transition between the UK and Japan. This land is full of preparation, packing and pre-flight
Read moreO-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
Read moreHURON! 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
Read moreMy Exchange Experience at the University of Sydney, Australia
For many Australia has become a place for starting afresh and testing the waters of a different lifestyle, and from February to July 2013 I was fortunate enough, not only to study at the University of Sydney, but to build
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