G’day, I started my upside down Australian exchange by travelling for 3 weeks around the East coast; Scuba Diving the Great Barrier reef, climbing stork Bridge in Brisbane and taking the obligatory photo outside the Opera House in Sydney. So
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Adelaide Exchange – 2 months in and plenty of kangaroos later…
Life at Penn State – Part 1
“Oh, you appear to have been upgraded” Upon hearing these words whilst boarding my flight to Philadelphia this August, I knew that this year abroad was going to be incredible. One semester in, now it is time to reflect on life
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I am writing my first blog entry looking back fondly on the memories that I have made during the first semester of my year abroad. I have 4 months worth of incredible experiences to talk about but there is no
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The month of October started off well with the midterm break. After spending the last few worrying about midterm exams and attempting to study it was a welcome break. However the holiday did not involve much relaxing as I
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After finishing my 2nd year of university on the 17th of July, I only had three days to get to the other side of the world to start a year at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. I arrived in
Read moreHong Kong, every thing I expected and everything I didn’t.
你们好，我叫李安迪 Hello my name is Andy Leach and I’m a chemistry student who is studing Mandarin Chinese (putonghua) at the Chinese university of Hong Kong (香港中文大学) for 1 month. What I expected Hong Kong to be was a busy exciting
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